Week 4 Inner and Outer Weather
Channel: Steven Pressfield
Date: 2023-07-21

About ten years ago I had prostate surgery. I came home from the hospital with both a staph infection and a yeast infection. The treatment for one made the other worse and doctors basically kind of said - you’re on your own.

For I’m not sure how many weeks I wrote, standing up, naked from the waist down with a fan blowing under the high desk where I stood. The thing is, as bad as things on the outside were, my writing was better than ever. 

A lot of times I think we let what's going on on the outside, determine what we can do creatively. I don’t think that’s always the case. We let the outer weather determine our inner weather and let Resistance bring us to a cold hard stop!! Don’t let it. I've found that often it's exactly the opposite. The worse the outer weather is, the better the inner weather is. Don't stop. Keep working.

Things are tough, keep working. Life sucks, keep working. This is the time when all the discipline, the daily habits you’ve put in place will come through for you. Keep working.