On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
Steven PressfieldSometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us. Are you pursuing a shadow career?
Steven PressfieldThe essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
Steven Pressfield