The War of Art

• Resistance and Trouble.
  • Trouble is a faux form of fame. Think about the troubles you’ve incited and incur, is it so that you use these troubles to delay the things you truly need to get done?
  • Configuring a fancy terminal stops you from really doing the coding.
  • Exploring all sorts of productivity tips stops you from actually produce.
  • Even reading this book, is stopping you from reviewing for the Probability exam.
• Resistance and Self-Dramatization
• Resistance and Victimhood
  • “Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don’t do it. If you’re doing it, stop.”
• Xenophon
  • It is believed that there must be a higher sphere comprises gods, pure spirits, or what have you, that they enjoy the creation of human-being. Therefore, Muse is sent on behalf of them to whisper to human ears, to bring joy to them.1`
• Hierarchy vs. Territory
  • The act of creation should be territorial
  • The art is not dedicated to either the class above or that below, i.e. not hierarchical.
  • Just like the process of birth. The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

Are you heading territorially?

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?