True Grit

Speaking of persisting, there’s two books I’d recommend on the topic:

• If You Want To Write, by Brenda Ueland
• The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

While targeted to traditional artists like writers and musicians, both have much to say about broader creative activity, within which technological work definitely falls.

P.S. If you’re short on time, you can find a selection of extracts from the latter book in this article: How to Fall in Love with Hard Work.

P.P.S. I almost didn’t write this post because both these books have considerably mixed reviews on Goodreads. But I decided to take their advice, post anyways, and let the reader decide. How meta!