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Resistance is overratedâŚ
I was speaking with my friend and collaborator
the other day, talking about how the only thing that separates you from effortless flow in your life is yourself.You, your narratives, your beliefs, your blocks, are the very friction that interrupts the effortless flow, easy output, and creative genius you innately possess.
Procrastination and paralysis stem from resistance to experiencing one of two outcomes:
Realizing youâre not as good as you thought
Opening yourself to criticism from other people.
This is the creatorsâ dilemma. The entrepreneursâ obstacle.
This is resistance. Your story is the friction getting in your way.
If you werenât so absorbed in hypothetical stories of possible future outcomes, you could simply sit down and write the thing. Or get up and go to the gym.
When resistance is removed, everything flows. You can begin to bend the energy of the universe, to move and flow with it, effortlessly and easily. Without the friction of hyper-self-conscious resistance, your genius, your power, your boldness flow effortlessly from idea into aligned action.
Your resistance impedes your reality.
What Ethan pointed out is that this is largely the essence of Steven Pressfields great book âThe War of Art.â
He literally terms it âThe Resistanceâ.
Everyone, everyone, runs up against The Resistance when they embark on a great journey. It could be doubt, it could be fear, it could be losing your job, it could be obstacles in the world.
Something is always in the way.
Many of us (myself included), rest in this deluded belief that great creators and artists are somehow free of this resistance. That they have reached the Holy Land of effortless creation.
This is not the case.
Everyone faces this resistance.
But Pressfield makes an important point, an absolutely crucial point, about what celebrates professionals from amateurs when they run up against The Resistance.
The only thing that separates professionals from amateurs is that they donât give a fuck about the resistance.
They just note the resistance, and press on anyways. Itâs really not that fancy at the end of the day.
Amateurs are consumed by The Resistance.
Pros just sit the fuck down and do it anyway.
This is a muscle, this is a skill that you can cultivate in yourself. You can get better at not giving the Resistance the stature of some impossible object that needs to be circumvented through spiritual manifestation, chakra unblocking, biohacks, or second-brain productivity hacks.
You can just note it, and move on anyways.
This skill of overcoming Resistance, of showing up in spite of it, not giving it the power it wants to take from you, is something you can train.
And it is exactly what we are going to be training in the Hero100.
The Hero100 is specifically designed to run you right up against The Resistance in all of its flavours. The length of time. The frigid waters. The meditations. Writing about misaligned character traits. Life events getting in the way. Something happening at work and taking a lot of your time.
This experience is a container to literally unlock your ability to go Pro. At whatever it is you want to go pro in.
Mastery of overcoming resistance. Skillfulness in acting anyways.
Showing the fuck up, and doing it anyway.
And weâve pulled out every serious mechanism to help you do this. Direct accountability, community support, behavioural incentive mechanisms, intentionally powerful and transformative discipline, 100-day time span, 1 hour a dayâŚ
The list goes on.
Everything in the Hero100 is set up to help you go Pro.
The only question isâŚ
Are you willing to overcome the resistance?
Are you prepared to drop your excuses?
Are you ready to show up for your own greatness?
Are you ready to go ALL-IN on YOU?
Weâre ready for you.
And on April 1st, we begin. See you there.
Dude, you always have the sickest artwork on your articles! The words are pretty too :) Keep up the great work EB đ
Thanks for the comment as well EB đ¤