Do the Work
by Steven Pressfield (Author)

Booktalk: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don’t know where to start? It’s not about better ideas, it’s about actually doing the work.

Snippet: Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate, falsify; seduce, bully. cajole. Resistance is protean. It will assume any form, if that’s what it takes to deceive you.

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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
by Austin Kleon (Author)

Booktalk: Ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, and productive.

Snippet: When a painter talks about her “work,” she could be talking about two different things: There’s the artwork, the finished piece, framed and hung on a gallery wall, and there’s the art work, all the day-to-day stuff that goes on behind the scenes in her studio: looking for inspiration, getting an idea, applying oil to a canvas, etc. There’s “painting,” the noun, and there’s “painting,” the verb. As in all kinds of work, there is a distinction between a painter’s process, and the products of her process.

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