Mental Popcorn » Book Review http://www.mentalpopcorn.com Do or do not. There is no "try" - Jedi Master Yoda Fri, 30 May 2008 05:31:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 “The War of Art” – who is your muse? http://www.mentalpopcorn.com/2007/05/08/the-war-of-art/ http://www.mentalpopcorn.com/2007/05/08/the-war-of-art/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 12:01:12 +0000 Bigmac http://www.mentalpopcorn.com/2007/05/08/the-war-of-art/ I almost didn’t add this entry. I’ve wanted to for a long time, but something has stopped me… Have you ever had this happen to you? Maybe it’s a long term project you’ve just been waiting to start, but you just haven’t started it! Maybe it is someone you have been meaning to call, but you just never get around to it…

The War of ArtWe all suffer the same thing; this same sense of procrastination. I reckon the author Steven Pressfield most accurately refers to this as “resistance” in his book The War of Art; I read it a couple of months ago and it is well worth the read.

Have you ever had a moment where you were doing something creative and you’ve had a flash of inspiration? Did you ever find yourself in a situation where an idea you had was so incredible, that you surprised yourself that you could be so brilliant? There might be a reason for that…

One of the fascinating concepts in the book The War of Art relates to Greek Mythology, and specifically that of the Muse. The idea is that whenever we focus on a creative activity, we are in fact summoning a Muse who provides us with guidance and inspiration – it explains a lot and if you read the book it might just strike a chord with you, like it did me.

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