#037 - Escaping Shawshank: identifying, engaging, and overcoming the Resistance

Mar 16, 2015, 11:18 AM

If you’ve ever tried creating a business, a work of art, or a book you’ve felt it. If you’ve ever taken action toward expressing your dream you’ve confronted it. Bestselling author Steven Pressfield identified it as the “Resistance.” His predecessor Freud referred to it as the Death Wish—the destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do good for others or ourselves.  Odds are you have an idea, an enterprise, a masterpiece planted deep inside you. But this desire remains dormant as long as you give in to the Resistance. In this episode, discover how to identify, engage, and overcome the Resistance.