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Growing Up: no one cares about the pool on your roof & the Resistance
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"Rule of thumb: the more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel towards pursuing it." Hi friends, Last week I read Steven Pressfield's The War of Art, it having been on my radar on ages. Did not disappoint.
Resistance is infallible
Like a magnetised needle floating on a surface of oil. Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.
Rule of thumb: the more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel towards pursuing it.
Resistance and fear
Are you paralysed with fear? That's a good sign.
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.
Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That’s why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there’d be no Resistance.
Good stuff. I look forward to reading Pressfield's Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t next. And now (if you're still here and haven't put your phone down to do that thing your soul is calling you to do but you've been avoiding out of fear) I have some fun anecdotes / wisdom from my last two podcast eps (details below). And so the first apartment that I bought was a 505 square foot, alcove studio in that building. And I was like, I'm a 28 year old who owns an apartment in New York and there is a pool on the roof. I'm going to invite all these women over and be like come to come see the pool on my roof like I'm a baller, blah blah blah. And guess what happened? I met the woman who would become my wife like 3 weeks later. So she was the only woman that saw the pool and she thought it was like the biggest D bag scene of all time. She's like, I hate your pool, it's so fucking lame. It's a bunch of Wall Street losers. So anyway, that was the thinking. And then that's funny. It's like how it played out.... We never went to the pool. The billion dollar test KH: Like if I had a billion dollars, I would still be super excited to have this conversation. ** !!! this is my new hurdle for the podcast... please only come on and chat to me if you still would if you woke up as a billionaire tomorrow. Ep. 104 - Khe Hy: leaving a $2.3m Wall Street salary at 35 & finding peace xx Delia P.S. I am writing to you from Portugal! Have had the best few days surfing + lots of yoga. Back to London tomorrow. Previous editions here. Forwarded this and want to subscribe? Click here. |
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