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Books like The War of Art

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is about creativity, resistance, discipline. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Turning Pro
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    Turning Pro

    Steven Pressfield · Self-help

    Turning Pro is Pressfield's follow-up to The War of Art, taking the Professional/Amateur distinction and developing it into a full examination of what the shift actually looks like — and what it costs.

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  2. Big Magic
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    Big Magic

    Elizabeth Gilbert · Self-help

    Big Magic is Elizabeth Gilbert's manifesto for living a creative life — not as a professional artistic career but as an orientation toward existence.

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  3. The Artist's Way
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    The Artist's Way

    Julia Cameron · Self-help

    The Artist's Way is Julia Cameron's twelve-week program for recovering and developing creative ability, originally published in 1992 and still widely used in studio groups and classrooms.

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  4. Bird by Bird
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    Bird by Bird

    Anne Lamott · Self-help

    Bird by Bird is Anne Lamott's guide to writing and the creative life, grown from a course she taught at UC Davis and developed over years of writing novels, essays, and journalism.

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  5. Deep Work
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    Deep Work

    Cal Newport · Self-help

    Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.

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  6. 12 Rules for Life
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    12 Rules for Life

    Jordan Peterson · Self-help

    12 Rules for Life is Jordan Peterson's attempt to distill what clinical psychology, comparative mythology, the Bible, and evolutionary biology say about how to live.

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