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Teachers are some of the most creative people I know. They have to be.
Moreso than almost any other career, the amount of content teachers need to create staggers the mind. Teachers create content for nearly every day of the school year.
And they don’t have to create it just once; they modify that content yearly for different groups of students. And with every research study published, new techniques are integrated into the school day.
If you’ve ever created anything, you know how exhausting that process is and how difficult it is to keep producing. Teachers feel that resistance daily.
No matter what your field of endeavor, whether you’re a teacher, painter, musician, writer, or entrepreneur, you’ve probably faced creative resistance. That feeling of resistance, of not wanting to do the work, is universal. And it’s the subject of Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art.
Pressfield is no stranger to creative resistance. He’s a best-selling author who has also worked as a bartender, a truck driver, and an oilfield roustabout. He knows what it’s like to feel fear and procrastinate. But he also knows that the only way to overcome creative resistance is to do the work.
