the WAR of ART - by Steven Pressfield [scanned book].pdf

RESISTANCE AND RATIONALIZATION

R

ationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is
to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we
truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.

MICHAEL

Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be

without it? I don't know anyone who can get

through the day without two or three juicy

rationalizations. They're more important than sex.

SAM

Aw, come on! Nothing's more important than sex.

MICHAEL

Oh yeah? Have you ever gone a week without a

rationalization?

—Jeff Goldblum and Tom Berenger,

in Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill

STEVEN PRESSFIELD