The War of Art by Steven Pressfield - Defeating Resistance

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

good evening welcome thank you so much for joining tonight as we launch what is the second year but the first installment of our series in which we take self-help productivity books contemporary lessons of today and try to communicate them and put them in a context of torah and try to be able to draw from the wisdom of our time but communicate and to place it in the context of great our timeless torah teachings so tonight i want to share with you some insights from a book that it's not an exaggeration to say changed it's not an exaggeration to say changed my life i'm uh very far from a voracious reader but i try to read and i love productivity books i love business books productivity books things that help you your vision your juices flow an entrepreneurial spirit and occasionally i've read books or consumed books is probably a more accurate description that had such a deep and profound impact they caused me for several days to not be able to stop thinking about it and to rethink parts of how i want to live my life and i hope i'm not building this up too much but i'll tell you that the book we're going to talk about and draw from tonight

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1. 0:02good evening welcome thank you so much for joining tonight as we launch what is the…
2. 4:39stephen pressfield called the lions gate the lions gate which is the story of the six…
3. 9:13the calling that is yours and yours alone why haven't we give up why haven't we…
4. 13:46a punch and if you want meaningful topics to talk about with your family at your…
5. 18:56in the world couldn't stop this virus all the money in the world couldn't invent a…
6. 23:32turned if you take resistance at its word you deserve everything you get resistance is always…
7. 28:11use that enemy from that enemy you can learn the dalai lama said the enemy is…
8. 33:52kabbalah say that above every blade of glass is an angel whispering grow grow but there's…
9. 38:23compass resistances internal resistance is invisible resistance is inside us anything with a body confronts resistance…
10. 42:59have we grown the older we've become have we turned more pro have we turned more…

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