The Will Is the Weapon

In 1973, Leonard Cohen walked off stage mid-concert in Jerusalem. The renowned poet and musician, then at the height of his career, disappeared into a small room backstage. His band waited. The audience waited. But Cohen couldn't perform. Because of what he later called "paralysis of the will."

In his book "The War of Art," Steven Pressfield calls it Resistance. That invisible, destructive force that blocks artists, entrepreneurs, and spiritual seekers alike. "Resistance," Pressfield writes, "is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us."