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The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it’s not about better ideas, it’s about actually doing the work.
Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance – a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.
“There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.”
Do the Work may be just what you need to get out of your own way.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki Reviews Do the Work
Robert T. Kiyosaki is an investor, entrepreneur, and educator whose perspectives on money and investing fly in the face of conventional wisdom. His book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, ranks as the longest-running bestseller on all four of the lists that report to Publisher's Weekly--the New York Times, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today--and was named "USA Today's #1 Money Book" two years in a row. Read his review of Steven Pressfield's Do the Work: Once again another brilliant book from Steven. Do the Work gives you step-by-step instructions on how to overcome and conquer Resistance--the biggest enemy of them all. The gloves come off! Do the Work explains who and what your allies are and how to embrace and utilize them in your creative life or in your day-to-day situations. The points and steps in this book makes it possible for anyone to go and achieve what they truly are striving for--may it be writing a book, a play, or starting a new business. A must read for anyone who wants to get ahead and out of their own way. Steven has done it again. --Robert T. Kiyosaki
A Q&A with Steven Pressfield
Question: What is the distinction between Do the Work and War of Art, the book where you first introduced Resistance? Does Do the Work take it a step further?
Steven Pressfield: Do the Work is structured to take the reader from A to Z. If the reader has a project they want to start or complete, such as a new business they want to open or a book they want to write, Do the Work is designed to take them from starting to shipping to hitting all the predictable resistance points along the way. I know you’re familiar with these moments; The beginning, the middle, and all the moments in between just before you ship and then just after you ship. Do the Work guides you from the start of the project and takes you all the way through.
It’s about getting off your behind and starting something. And Seth Godin writes about this, that once you start, you have to finish; you don’t get off the hook half way through. I recently got an email from a guy who said, "Help. I’m stuck." He was in a class and he had to write a screenplay and he was a quarter of the way through. Normally I would cheer him on, but just for fun, I gave him a little program to do; I put on my instructor voice and said, “Do this, do that, do this, do that.” It worked because right away he got over a couple speed bumps and took it all the way to the finish line. He loved it! I’d always been too shy to do that before, but I tried the assertive tone of voice and it really worked--he responded really well to it. So I thought, let me try that tone of voice in Do the Work.
Question: What did you tell him to do?
Steven Pressfield: One of the first things I told him to do was to banish the self-censor. I could tell he was frozen, worrying, "Is this going to be good? Is this going to be perfect? So I told him, "Take the next five days and write for two hours everyday. I don’t care what else is in your life--banish it. When you write for those two hours, start on minute one and don’t think for one second all the way through until minute 120. Just write, don’t self censor. Don’t do anything." That really seemed to get him moving and gave him permission to not be paralyzed with seeking perfection.
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I have to begin by saying that the book was recommended to me. I am not one for 'success' literature, or self-development programmes or business and personal spirituality guides. They are not for me and I tend to take a fairly dubious and skeptical view. The point is that without the recommendation I would have pigeon holed this book firmly into that category and left it alone. Shortly after the first several pages I felt reassured. 'Do the work' is not of that genre or, if it is then it is not of the 'type' that I perceive so negatively (if that makes sense!?).
For me, the main strength was the energy in the book. This was to be found in the short and snappy way in which the prose was written. It was in the actionable recommendations and the directional conclusions that are woven throughout. For me, it was also to be found in the book's 'visual' style (by this I mean the layout and sizes of text as opposed to pictures of which there are none. I have read a review here that found this distracting, but for me it added to the general momentum and pace and helped me get though the book very quickly. I have read other books where this is done to a much less effective end result (Funky Business is one such example) but found it here really works alongside the main message of the body of the main text as opposed to be seemingly plucked at random.
The other main strength for me was in the humor of the book. 'Do the work' was witty and clever and provided me with several laugh out loud moments. The pop culture references are all entirely modern and current and the book has a feeling of being extremely up to date (again, something that is often lacking from books of this 'type').
All in all, this is a fun, short, dynamic book that is definitely worth the tiny amount of reading time required to get through it. I found 'Do the work' to be instructional and thoughtful and for all of these reasons I have recommended the book to friends.
It is also free - which helps!
Matt
I downloaded the free version following a mention of Seth Godins blog - and to be honest his recommendation is more than enough for me - plus it was free!
Anyway, I ploughed through it that day and enjoyed the read and found it motivating and not at all irritating - don't be put off - give it a go!
Many people have found Steven Pressfield's book " The war of Art" to be very useful in overcoming resistance or procrastination and " Do the work" is basically a distillation of that book.
I do have very mixed feelings about his approach. For overcoming writers block I have found it to be somewhat useful . Even successful and prolific writers sometimes have problems and seeing this resistance as something to be fought and overcome can be quite helpful.
However I did find the writing to be overwrought, self-dramatising and often very inconsistent. Also it seemed a bit too personal to the author.
I have found books that give far more practical advice to be a lot more useful. Pressfield's approach only seems to deal with one possible reason for procrastination.
The psychologist Albert Ellis in his Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy approach has a lot of methods to deal with "Low Frustration Tolerance" (which seems similar to resistance) and these seem to be much more useful than the mystical approach that book uses.
For areas other than dealing with a writer's block I think that his ideas might actually be harmful and de-motivating. He makes everything seem really difficult and not really enjoyable. It hardly makes you want to start work on a potentially difficult project!
Edit: I wrote this review when it was available for a free download and gave it three stars. It is currently very poor value for money.
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