Anthony Scaramucci

It's different from your other books because you're now forcing the viewer or the listener or the reader to get a little mystical with you and to think about things in the context of beyond the temporal.

And so was that by design, Stephen, or was that also accidental?

It's a beautiful story, but it's also a story of resistance.

And so The War of Art, which I think is one of your great books.

If someone said to me, I need to be mentored.

My first move is here is The War of Art.

Read this and then come back and see me.

Because what is it?

It's about dealing with resistance.

It's about the fight.

Ultimately, Stephen, you and I both know that the struggle starts right here, behind our eyes and in between our ears, the struggle over ourselves.

Isn't that right, sir?

Absolutely.

Okay.

So when I read about Telemann and I think about the war of art, I feel like that's the resistance.

And then how do you finally get past the resistance?

Tell us what the breakthrough is.

Well, I mean, the thing about all of this for me, you know, when I was in school, I was a classics minor.

And so I didn't read the Greek versions of this, but I read all of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,

And in the lessons of reading that is you better learn quickly in life how to deal with tragedy because your life is going to be filled with loss.