If you make things—words, code, music, products—you’ve met the shapeshifter that stalks every ambitious project: Resistance. It dresses up as procrastination, perfectionism, busywork, self-doubt, and a suspicious urge to reorganize your sock drawer. This post distills a long, generous conversation between Andrew Huberman and author Steven Pressfield into a practical, humane playbook: how to recognize Resistance, flip the “pro” switch, and build a day that ships.
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Tennis with delusional optimism, because the court teaches what the boardroom can’t—that showing up matters more than winning, that resilience is built in the space between effort and outcome, and that every new beginning requires the courage to be a beginner again.
This is about competition as a mirror, sport as a philosophy, and the belief that the most important games we play are the ones that shape who we’re becoming. Whether you’re launching a venture, stepping into fatherhood, or facing an opponent who should beat you, the question is always the same: will you enter the arena? These are reflections on what it means to pursue mastery you may never reach, to embrace new chapters when the old ones felt safer, and to build a life defined not by credentials but by the willingness to try, fail, learn, and return—stronger and wiser—to play again.