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This is Not the Time to Be Timid · The Daily Writer

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: These lessons are inspired by great artists, authors, and thinkers, both past and present.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: The scariest monster in ancient Greek mythology was not a cyclops, sea monster, or dragon.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a woman named Medusa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Legend has it that she was assaulted by Poseidon in Athena's temple.
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  SPEAKER_00: In her anger, Athena transformed Medusa's hair into venomous snakes and disfigured her face so badly that anyone who gazed at her would be turned to stone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Medusa was finally defeated by the hero Perseus.
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  SPEAKER_00: He crept into her cave one day while she was sleeping, and using his polished shield as a mirror, he cut off her head.
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  SPEAKER_00: Medusa is a good representation of the fear we feel sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the year 2020.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are problems and distractions on every side.
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  SPEAKER_00: Politics, the economy, a global virus, social unrest, and a million other hissing vipers threaten to stop us dead in our tracks.
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  SPEAKER_00: We imagine our creative lives to be nice and calm, like walking through a field of dandelions on a spring day.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's more like a battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each day you must take up your sword and shield.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stephen Pressfield uses the metaphor of war for the creative life in his book The War of Art.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has a name for our enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He calls it resistance.
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  SPEAKER_00: He writes, Resistance's goal is not to wound or disable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Resistance aims to kill.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its target is the epicenter of our being, our genius, our soul, the unique and priceless gift we were put on earth to give, and that no one else has but us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Resistance means business.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we fight it, we are in a war to the death.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not the time to be timid in your creative gifts.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not the time to stand back and watch from the sidelines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stand firm and don't run from the fight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Summon your inner Perseus, do the work you're called to do, and slay the monster of fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Writer Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: We really appreciate you tuning in.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find more at DailyWriterlife.com.