Hey guys, welcome to the Weekly Wisdom. I'm Dean Graziosi, if you don't know me, if you've been here for years,

thanks for joining us week after week. If you're new, it's an honor to have you here.

Okay, today, this is part one of two. I want to talk about something called

resistance. I'm reading an incredible book right now called The War of Art,

not the Art of War, the War of Art, and I would suggest it to anyone.

And you know, if you've been watching me for years, you know, I talk a lot about this villain

that's created inside of us.

Well, Sam, I forget Sam's last name, right moment, it escapes me, but the author of the War of Art talks about it as resistance.

So I want to share this with you today.

That resistance is that thing that happens that makes us procrastinate.

It makes us in today's world surf the internet instead of working on our passion.

It's what makes us say, I really love to do that, but it's a hobby when it really could be

what you do full time and enjoy yourself more.

Resistance is that if you ever tried to write a book and you sit down and you check your email and your bank accounts and text a few people first because you're not sure if you could make that happen.

It's talking about following your dream and quitting that job. that

it's talking about following your dream and quitting that job and trying something new, but you don't.

It's that same thing that I call the villain that society is built up

inside of us.

So society may have done it.

Rules and limiting stories that were told to us as kids

may have done it, but it lives inside of us. And we're the only ones that can defy it.

So I was this morning I was literally working out and I had the earphones in and I'm listening to

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