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62 Steven Pressfield
did Picasso and Einstein. So do Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga and
Donald Trump.
If you’ve got a head, you’ve got a
voice of Resistance inside it.
The enemy is in you, but it is not you. No moral judgment at-
taches to the possession of it. You “have” Resistance the same
way you “have” a heartbeat.
You are blameless. You retain free will and the capacity to act.
Principle Number Five:
The “Real You” Must Duel the “Resistance You”
On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon.
You are the knight.
Resistance is the dragon.
There is no way to be nice to the dragon, or to reason with it or
negotiate with it or beam a white light around it and make it
your friend. The dragon belches fire and lives only to block you
from reaching the gold of wisdom and freedom, which it has
been charged to guard to its final breath.
