Name: Do the Work
Rating: 3.903225806451613 (31 reviews)

Steven Pressfield

"This book is designed to coach you through a project (a book, a ballet, a new business venture, a philanthropic enterprise) from conception to finished product, seeing it from the point of view of Resistance."--Page [1].

Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way

Do the Work

Great content, but didn’t enjoy the writing style that much

Asher Black

When you're up against the Borg: “Do the Work” is an immensely helpful book by Stephen Pressfield. If you are stuck, and need to read one book, make it this one. If you’ve felt there’s an underlying force resisting your desire to go forward, read this book. If you’ve taken class after class, applied solution after solution, and don’t understand why the resistance is still there, read this book. You are up against the Borg, and it’s the biggest mistake the Borg ever made.

Ron Bronson

I cannot overstate how much I enjoyed this book. It ranks highly up there with "Lucky or Smart" as books I have on my virtual self of motivation. Pressfield gets right to the point, doesn't waste time explaining why being a in creative rut leads to do all sorts of things we can that are destructive and take us away from what we really want to accomplish. I'd highly recommend it if you're trying to accomplish something and find yourself struggling to jolt yourself out of it. It won't be magic, but it'll help you move forward en route to doing the work.

Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way

Do the Work!

this is all stuff that i lowkey knew, but reading someone else's phrasing (with LARGE FONT!! and BIZARRE EXAMPLES!!) was surprisingly motivational.

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tiff

Do the Work is honestly the worst book I’ve ever read. Worse than The Charge. 👎🏽💩

It was 55 ebook pages of new age hippy garbage. Quote: “Bad things happen when we employ rational thought because rational thought comes from the ego“. In this day and age we need all the rational thought we can muster. What the everloving f*ck….

This book was full of Buddhist platitudes and trite motivational rah rah BS. I honestly don’t know why it’s so highly recommended.

Abby

This book contains some good nuggets and helpful encouragement for artists, but wrapped in way too many toxically masculine “hurt yourself for your art” rhetoric for my taste. However since it is SOOOO short, it may be worth the skim if you can ignore the chest thumping and take out only the artistic encouragement. YMMV.

alali moe

Alan Alves

Let's say that this book is an emotional encouragement to day by day.
I get inspired for a few minutes.

Jeremy Anderberg

A really inspiring little collection of ideas. Almost proverb-like.

Luca Conti

sei hai letto Linchpin di Seth Godin, è pressoché uguale. Il titolo poteva essere Lizard brain :))

Do the Work Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way

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