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30 Steven Pressfield
Chatter is your mother and father’s well-intentioned expressions
of caution, seeking to shield you from hurting yourself. Chatter
is your teachers’ equally well-meaning attempts at socialization,
training you to follow the rules. Chatter is your friends’ regular-
Joe buddy-talk, trying to make you like them and follow the
rules of the pack.
Chatter is Resistance.
Its aim is to reconcile you to “the way it is,” to make you exactly
like everyone else, to render you amenable to societal order and
discipline.
Where do our own real thoughts
come from? How can we access
them? From what source does our
true, authentic self speak?
Answering that is the work you and I will do for the rest of our
lives.
