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Writing Wednesdays: Get a Grip on Fear

Steven Pressfield · 5 Feb 2020

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Fear is the emotion artists live and die by: it stops them beginning their work, carrying it through adversity, or finishing it when they are close.

Artists and warriors live and die by one primal emotion. Fear. Fear stops us from beginning our work. Or carrying it forward in the face of adversity. Or completing it when we’re so, so close.

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  1. Artists and warriors live and die by one primal emotion. Fear. Fear stops us from beginning our work. Or carrying it forward in the face of adversity. Or completing it when we’re so, so close.

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