And we get we sacrifice everything of our own selves, to bring that that new life forth, and even once it’s been brought forth, to protect it and to raise it and to educate it and to help it come into its own. And I might also say, speaking to you as a woman, a parallel to that would be the virtues of a mother-that as artists, we are giving birth to something, right? And as a mother, we are in service to that new life. And we need the virtues of a warrior to confront this-the virtues of courage, of persistence, or perseverance, of the willing embrace of adversity and that sort of thing. So I do feel like as artists, we are warriors. And I’m definitely a believer in that, that there’s this negative force that a writer or any artist faces in trying to reach to the higher level to find ideas, to tell stories, to do whatever it is. In Jewish mysticism, there’s a thing called the yetzer hara it’s a negative force that stands between our material plane and the neshamah, the soul, trying to block the neshama from talking to us and us from reaching up to that. So the bottom line is, I really do see life as a war, an internal war, an inner war. That is a force of self-sabotage that we all deal with, right? That distracts us and makes us procrastinate and makes us walk away from our true calling and go someplace else. It comes from the idea that in The War of Art, as you know, I talked about this force that I call Resistance with a capital R. Steven Pressfield: A lot of that war analogy comes from being a writer.
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