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Feb 23, 2020 · Steven Pressfield has made a professional life in five different writing arenas — advertising, screenwriting, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and self-help.
Nov 16, 2017 · Pressfield describes the amateur life as the way most of us start out in our careers. We have dreams. We worry about competition and view money as a measure of our life. We pursue careers...
Nov 25, 2017 · I’m 74. Believe me, you’ve got all the time in the world. You’ve got ten lifetimes ahead of you. Don’t worry about your friends “beating” you or “getting somewhere” ahead of you. Get out into the real dirt world and start failing. Why do I say that? Because the goal is to connect with your own self, your own soul. Adversity.
Oct 7, 2020 · By Steven Pressfield | 48 Comments | Writing Wednesdays. I started The War of Art with this thought: Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. What does that mean? In the deepest metaphysical sense? It means that our lives exist on two levels.
Mar 31, 2016 · First Pressfield addresses the Resistance we all feel as we try to accomplish things, the life-force-sucking entity that’s so hard to pin down and eradicate. Second the author looks at what being a Pro means.
Nov 26, 2022 · Identifying the omnipresence of “Resistance,” the interior force of self-sabotage he described in The War of Art, has saved his own artistic life and has helped many others struggling to find their creative calling.
Feb 16, 2024 · This article revisits Steven Pressfield's ground-breaking concept of Resistance and explores the subject in a new positive perspective that gives it new life.