Steven Pressfield
Appearances
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Um, I'm, I'm a great believer that work is everything, you know, um, particularly for, for a writer because your writer has a, has a long career, you know, you can be 70 years old, 80 years old, still working, you know? Um, and, uh, uh, You know, I've said this before, that like for 30 years, well, now people tell me that I have talent. But for 30 years, they told me I was a bum.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And I was a bum because I hadn't learned how to do it. You know, I didn't have the confidence. I hadn't found a voice or anything like that. So work, I think, is you have to have, obviously, you have to have some talent. But Work is 90% of it, I think. You can get better. That's the good news. No matter how bad a first draft is, the ninth draft can be really good.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Or no matter how bad you were when you're 26, when you're 46, you can be really good. When you look back at what you wrote at 26, you go, this is dog shit. But I'm not doing that anymore. I've learned. And I can do better. So the good news for anybody that's struggling, I think, is that work does pay off. You can get better. You can learn more. You can improve.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Well, you know, like the whole subject matter of The War of Art, my book, The War of Art, is about what I call resistance with a capital R, which is that... that voice in our head that tells us we're not good enough, our idea isn't good enough, we're too old, we're too young, we're too fat, we're too thin, we went to school, blah, blah, blah. And the other aspect of that is procrastination,
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
the susceptibility to distraction going down rabbit holes and, you know, click bait and stuff like that. And other things like perfectionism, where we'll spend all day working on one paragraph instead of moving forward. And there's a million ways that our, our, our, our ego will sabotage us, you know? And to me,
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
job one of any creative person is to is to acknowledge that that is you know there is an enemy and the enemy is you you know the enemy is me it's in it's in us it's there the minute we wake up in the morning it's a dragon we have to slay every morning before we even sit down to work work is that's easy compared with uh like in the war of art it says something like
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't know. And the secret is this. It's the writing is not the hard part. What's hard is sitting down to write. And I believe that completely. And what we all have to do in our own way, and everybody does it differently, is find some way to slay this dragon every morning. To be able to work.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
Obviously, if you can't work, you can't do anything. But... The first step to that, in my opinion, is recognizing that there is this negative force. You know, you sit down at the blank page and it radiates off that blank page, right? You know, let's go to the beach, you know, let's smoke a joint, let's whatever, right? Something that the resistance is always trying to stop us from doing our work.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
So if we can believe that, accept it, feel it inside us, then we can overcome it. We can dismiss it and just say, well, bullshit, I'm just going to sit down and do my work. And to me, it's like jumping into a cold pool.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
It's hard when you're standing on the edge, but once you're in the water, in other words, once you start writing or dancing or doing whatever it is you're going to do, then that fear goes away. And fear is a huge part of it too, Andre, right? It's like fear of success, fear of failure, fear of destitution, fear of embarrassing yourself, fear of looking like an idiot.
Know Thyself
E129 - Know Your True Nature & Unlock Your Purpose in 2025 (Know Thyself Best Moments)
And somehow we all have to get past that. You know, that I don't give a shit, I'm gonna do it anyway. The pain, when the pain of not doing the work becomes worse than the pain of doing the work, then we'll actually sit down and do it. But the good news is once we start to do it immediately, everything is okay.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Here we go.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Das ist nicht in dem Buch, aber... Es gibt da überall Verbindungen. Aber es ist ein Memoir, es ist meine Lebensgeschichte.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und der Grund, warum ich es geschrieben habe, ist genau wie das, worüber du sprichst, für eure Entrepreneurs und Leute, die Schriftsteller und Copywriter sind und so weiter und so fort, die mit ihrer eigenen Sachen kämpfen und manchmal denken, oh, das ist für immer gedauert und ich fliege herum, ich weiß nicht, wo ich bin.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und ich dachte, wenn ich meine Geschichte erzählen würde, weil es mir so lange gedauert hat, um das zu brechen, dann könnte das die Menschen ermutigen, dass wenn dieser Kerl all diese Dinge überleben kann, dass es Hilfe für alle anderen gibt.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Well, I was the Google sort of longer version of the story. I was working, my first job was as a copywriter in New York City at a big, you know, Madison Avenue ad agency. And I had a boss named Ed Hannibal and he wrote a novel and it was an instant hit. And the guy quit his job and became like a full-time writer. Ich sah das passieren und dachte mir, warum mache ich nicht das gleiche?
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Also habe ich mich verabschiedet und versuchte, ein Buch zu schreiben, für etwa zwei Jahre. Und natürlich hatte ich nichts damit zu tun. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, wie hart es sein würde. Ich war viel zu jung, etc., etc. Und so hat mein Leben an diesem Punkt sortiert. Ich wurde verheiratet, bla bla bla. Ich war auf der Straße.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And I felt like the only way I could get out of this thing was to sort of write my way out of it. You know, it was like I tried this thing. I failed. You know, resistance was what defeated me. Resistance with a capital R. But at that time, I had no idea that there was such a thing. So anyway, I just was sort of in a position kind of Russell of shame. Wie ich es in Government Cheese erwähnt habe.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich habe alle gelassen. Ich habe mich selbst gelassen. Irgendwie muss ich das Schiff aufsteigen. Es hat dann nur noch 27 Jahre gedauert.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Wenn mir jemand das gesagt hätte, wäre es eine andere Geschichte gewesen.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
It's like the reason why they have those phrases, copy and paste, is because that's what it really used to be. You know, you literally would cut it and you literally would paste it, you know. But because you didn't know any better, there was no such no alternative. So you just did it.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Du wendest dich mit Seiten, die zusammengeklebt werden würden. Sie wären drei Fuß lang. Sie wären wie auf einem Computer, nur mit echtem Papier. Es war eine verrückte Situation. Ich habe versucht, es zu lesen, um zu sehen, ob es Sinn macht. Aber das war so, wie es ging. Es war definitiv handgemachtes Ding.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Well, it definitely feels like that's who you really are, right? That's kind of your, it is your calling, that you should be doing that. And at least for me, when I would try to do anything else, You know, like if I would get a copywriting job or something like that, I would be so depressed at the end of the day.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Really, you know, that I would have the only thing that would save me would be to sit down at this old clunky typewriter and try to write something of my own, you know. But the other thing from a writer's point of view is that you're you feel a call to a certain story. You know, there's a book you want to write. Like, I'm sure you felt this, Russell, or you're feeling it right now.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
You know, that there's this story about whatever it is. And you just got it and you start it and you're hooked on it. And now you've got to finish it. And you go through the same sort of things you're talking about, where... Once you're a few weeks into it, you say to yourself, what am I doing? This is crazy. This is not going anywhere. I'm lost. Nobody's going to buy this. I'm not good enough.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
All that kind of thing. And those are the sort of resistance points that you have to sort of learn to overcome. Just like an entrepreneur, right, where you start something and you think, oh shit, what have I done? There's no way this is going to pay off, etc., etc., But that just seems to be part and parcel of any creative enterprise. When you are called, you do get that feeling, right?
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
You feel like, I've got to do this thing. Nothing else is going to make me happy.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Well, I'm definitely a believer that life happens on two levels. That there's the material level that we're on, and there's a higher level above that. And we get called from that level. It's the muse, it's the goddess, that's the way I look at it. That it's sort of... Sie sprechen von Songwritern, die auf der Straßenbahn fahren und plötzlich kommt ein Song in ihre Hände, von Anfang bis Ende.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Sie müssen sich auf die Seite der Straße schrecken und es schreiben, bevor es weggeht. Ich fühle definitiv, dass Ideen aus einem anderen Ort kommen. Es ist unser Job, sie zu holen und sie in das materielle Wesen zu bringen. Auf diesem materiellen Plan.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Let me ask you, Russell, how do you deal with self-doubt that hits you when you start something? I mean, when you were first messing around with potato guns, you said to yourself, what am I doing with this thing here? How do you deal with self-doubt when you're starting something new?
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ja, das ist meine Theorie. Eigentlich habe ich gerade einen Podcast mit Rick Rubin gemacht. Du weißt, er ist der Musikentrepreneur, der Typ, der der Gottvater von Hip-Hop ist. Und... Das ist absolut das, was er glaubt.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und ich glaube es komplett, dass wenn man versucht, einen Publikum zu vorstellen und sagt, du wirst die Bedürfnisse für sie erfüllen, kommst du aus einem Ort des Egos, denke ich, und nicht aus einem Ort des Herzens. Und der andere Grund, der andere Weg, um es zu schauen, ist, zu sagen, ich muss den Publikum führen.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Sie wissen nicht, was diese Geschichte, die in meinem Kopf ist, oder diese Idee, die in meinem Kopf ist. Wenn sie es gemacht hätten, würden sie es machen. Wenn Steve Jobs mit dem iPhone angefangen hat, war niemand dafür aufgeregt. Niemand hat gesagt, mach mir ein Handy, das Apps und so hat. Sie wussten nicht, was es war.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Aber er glaubte, wenn ich mit diesem Ding verabschiedet werde, werden alle anderen Leute damit verabschiedet werden. Und ich denke, das ist einfach die Art und Weise, wie die Welt funktioniert. Du musst dich selbst verabschieden. Glaub, wenn es dir Spaß macht, wird es auch für jemand anderes Spaß machen.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Die längere Version dieser Geschichte ist, dass ich eine Screenwriting-Karriere für etwa zehn Jahre hatte, eine Art B- oder C-Level, nicht A-Level, aber ich war da. Und mein Agent, der ein guter Freund meines war, Ich habe viel Arbeit gemacht, um mich in die Stadt zu bringen und Menschen zu bringen, die wissen, wer ich war.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und dann plötzlich, ich habe mich einfach von dieser Idee für The Legend of Bagger Vance gesetzt. Aber es war als Buch, nicht als Film. Und ich wusste das komplett. Es gab keine Angst in meinem Kopf. And when I told my agent that, he basically fired me. He said, you know, I've been busting my ass for years for you to get you out there. You go off for a year or something to write this book.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
People forget you in this town in a week and a half, you know. But I was just so seized with it that I just absolutely had to do it, you know, come hell or high water. And, you know, knock on wood, it worked. But that sort of goes... zu dem, worüber wir vorhin gesprochen haben. Du, der Kreator, du, der Entrepreneur, musst den Publikum führen.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Aber ich hatte einen riesigen Selbstvertrauen in das Buch. Ich dachte, als ich es geschrieben habe, eine Golf-Story, die mystisch ist. Ich meine, wer ist interessiert in das? Aber wiederum, ich wurde einfach von dem enttäuscht. Ich musste es einfach machen. Manchmal, weißt du, dass die höhere Dimension sich übernimmt und du keine Chance hast. Du musst es einfach machen.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Nun, das wird uns wahrscheinlich komplett überraschen. Es gibt eine berühmte hinduische Schrift, die Bhagavad-Gita. Ich weiß nicht, ob ihr das gehört habt. Es geht um den großen Krieger Arjuna und seinen Charioteer. Ich war ein Fan dieses Buches. Ich habe es viele Male gelesen. Eines Tages dachte ich mir, das ist eine tolle Struktur für eine Geschichte.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich kann das in einen modernen Kontext einstellen und es wird funktionieren. So habe ich mich damit gewöhnt. Ich dachte, die Struktur ist großartig. Es ist wie das Rippen von Romeo und Juliet oder so etwas. Du weißt, dass es funktionieren wird. Und dann, wenn du daran bist, erhältst du ein eigenes Momentum.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Charaktere erscheinen, Szenen beginnen zu passieren und neue Ideen kommen in, wie bei einer Unternehmensentwicklung. Wenn du mit einem verrückten Ding anfängst, dann hast du eine ganze Industrie. Ja.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
First, let me just say that for the first, you know, eight or nine years or longer than that of my career, career i was being defeated by this force called resistance and i never knew it even existed so let me see if i can define it it's like when you sit down in front of one of these things Und du bist vor dem blanken Bildschirm. Du spürst eine Kraft, die auf dem Bildschirm radiert.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Eine negative Kraft, die versucht, dich aufzunehmen und zu verlassen. Es will definitiv nicht, dass du das Job machst. Was auch immer es ist. Und die Art, wie Resistenz erscheint, ist als eine Stimme in deinem Kopf. And the voice in your head will tell you a couple of things. One of the things it will tell you is you're not good enough to do this. Who do you think you are?
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
You're too old, you're too young, you have no skills, you've never done this before. This is a dumb idea. If it's been done before by a million people better than that kind of voice, right? That'll try to force you back and stop you from doing it. The other half of the voice is it will try to distract you.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And it will say, clickbait, you go down this rabbit hole of whatever it is, or let's get drunk, or let's have an affair, or let's go to the beach, let's get whatever, that kind of thing. And after a while you recognize that There is an enemy. The playing field is not level when you sit down to do anything creative or entrepreneurial.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
There is this negative force out there that I believe is like the force of gravity. It just exists in the real world. There's nothing you can do about it. Es ist da, es kämpft dich, es wird dich jeden Tag in deinem Leben kämpfen. Ich bin in diesem Geschäft jetzt seit 50 Jahren und die Stärke der Resistenz geht nie weg. and never diminishes. It's the dragon you have to slay every morning anew.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
So I always say to any artist or any entrepreneur, before you even get into the skill of it, of whatever you're going to do, the first thing you have to do is recognize this negative force and find some way to overcome it, one day at a time, day after day after day.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
belief in the calling or the thing you're pursuing or else it's easy for that just to to collapse you right yeah and like you say because it never stops it's like you might defeat it you know for a week or two weeks or in training you know or work that you're trying to do and then resistance will even use that success against you and the voice in your head will say oh you've done great for those two weeks you really got licked you know
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Let's take the day off, you know, or it's Sunday or, you know, our wife wants to do that, blah, blah, blah. And of course you can't be hardcore 24 hours a day, but you do have to sort of think in marathon terms. You know, I think of this absolutely as a lifetime commitment, you know, when I'm dead, I'll stop worrying about this, but not until then. And so, uh,
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Es ist so diabolisch, die Stimme in deinem Kopf, in den nuanced Wegen, die versuchen, dich rauszufaken und dich zu stoppen. Es ist wirklich interessant, was du gemacht hast, Russell, mit deinem Telefon, wo du dich aufmerksam hattest. Aber ich habe das nie gemacht. Aber ich würde mir vorstellen, dass es mich 500 Mal am Tag schlägt.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Weißt du, was ich meine? Lass mich hier eine Sache ausdrücken, die vielleicht, vielleicht wirst du mich etwas über das fragen, aber vielleicht ist das, was ich jetzt sagen möchte, vielleicht sehr hilfreich für jeden, der darüber nachdenkt. Und das ist, dass Imagine a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow. The minute the tree appears, a shadow appears. And the shadow is equal to the tree, right?
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
If it's a big tree, it's a big shadow. So in the terms of resistance, the tree is the dream that you have. The book you want to write, the venture you want to do, whatever. And resistance is the shadow. So there would not, what I want to say is resistance always comes second. Es gäbe keine Resistenz, wenn es nicht ein Traum gewesen wäre, wenn es nicht ein Anruf im Inneren gewesen wäre.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Das Gute davon ist, dass wenn du eine große Resistenz fühlst, diese große Schattung, dann zeigt das, dass da ein großer Baum ist. Es gibt große Träume, denn die Resistenz kommt immer, wie Newton's drittes Gesetz der Bewegung, eine gleiche und die gleiche Reaktion. Es ist eine Reaktion zu einer Aspiration. zu einem Buch, das du schreiben möchtest, oder einem Film, was auch immer es ist.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Also, nicht überrascht werden, würde ich sagen, von diesem dunklen Mond, dieser dunklen Schatten, ist ein Beweis, dass der Traum wirklich ist und groß ist.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich meine, es ist wie wenn wir über einen Anruf oder einen Traum sprechen oder was auch immer es ist. Wir können in einem Kühlschrank in einem Büro arbeiten oder wir können an einem hohen Ende arbeiten. Wir können ein großer Arbeiter oder so etwas sein. Und das ist das Leben, das wir leben. But there's an unlived life within us. And resistance's job is to make sure we never live that life out.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
There are so many people who want to be writers, want to be artists, want to start businesses, but they don't for various reasons. They have kids, they got to take care of the kids, all that sort of stuff. Practical things, got to keep my job. So it's a very good question to ask oneself, what is my unlived life? What is the thing that's inside me that wants to be born?
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und das ist der Anruf, richtig? Du sprichst von der Reise der Helden. Das ist der Anruf zur Erfindung.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ja, das ist wie das, was du gesagt hast, die Verabschiedung der Anrufe, richtig? In der Reise des Helden, der Konzept ist, dass, oder einer der Konzepte ist, dass sofort, wenn der Helden den Anruf zur Verabschiedung bekommt, das erste, was in ihrem Kopf kommt, ist, naja, ich will das nicht machen, richtig?
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Sie verabschieden den Anruf, wie in dem Film Rocky, wenn er die Chance hat, den Champ zu kämpfen. Die Leute vergessen das von ihnen. Du siehst den Film, das erste, was er macht, ist, dass er es aufhört. Oder in der Odyssee, wenn Odysseus angerufen wird, in den Trojaner Krieg zu gehen.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Das erste, was er tut, ist, es zu schalten, auch in Star Wars, wenn Luke R2-D2 entdeckt und die Botschaft bekommt, helft mir, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Das erste, was er tut, ist, es zu schalten. Er sagt, ich muss hier auf... You know, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's evaporator farm. You know, they need me. And it's not until they are killed by the sand people that he actually answers the call.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
So, yeah, that's the unlived life.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Yeah, that's a great example of a copywriter, because I was one myself. And you know, like in any big ad agency where there might be 200 copywriters, male and female, if you open the drawer of any of their desks, they've got a half-written novel in there, they've got Es gibt eine Menge Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler. Also ist das eigentliche Copywriting eine Art Schatten-Karriere.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und oftmals, wie im Film-Business, sind die Berufe im Film-Business Unternehmerberufe. Ich weiß nicht, ob Sie sich mit dem kennen, aber das sind die Leute, die die Kontakte für Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler und Schauspieler und so weiter und so fort machen. Und es ist eine Art Gemeinschaft, in der viele, viele dieser Berufe sein wollen, Writers or directors or producers.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And a lot of them do it. And they're good at it. And you can see that they sort of chose this career as a lawyer in the movie business to be adjacent to a creative enterprise, but in a kind of a safe way. They're a lawyer. They went to law school. It's a real job. They're going to be paid money. But that's their shadow career. Or another time,
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Another example is a lot of times people will take a job maybe as an assistant to somebody, to an entrepreneur, to a creative person, when really they want to be the creative person, but they just haven't raised the courage quite yet to do it. So it's a real common thing.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
It's another way that resistance, this diabolicalness fakes us out, you know, and gets us, sidetracks us away from something that we should be doing.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich denke, das ist auch eine tolle Frage. One of the things I've said before, you know who Steven Soderbergh is, the director? He won an Oscar for Traffic and he's done a million things that you've seen. And when he won his Oscar as Best Director for Traffic, he kind of held up the award and he said, this is for everybody who puts in one hour a day pursuing their art.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und ich würde sagen, dass du eine Stunde pro Tag ein vollzeitiger professioneller Arzt sein kannst. Du musst deinen Job nicht abschließen. Obwohl, hoffentlich, das ist, was du irgendwann machen wirst, es vollzeit zu machen. Aber eine andere Art, das zu betrachten, ist, dass ich ein vollzeitiger professioneller Schauspieler bin. Ich muss nichts anderes machen.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
But in my day, with all the bullshit that I have to do, I really wind up with only like about two hours of time to actually do my real writing, you know? So that even if you're a single mom and you've got two jobs, you can carve out a couple of hours for whatever your dream is. Und, you know, I figured it out one time. An hour a day comes out to a lot of hours over the course of a year.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And you can get a lot of stuff done in that time if you just stick with it. Going for the day when maybe you really can leave that job.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Es ist großartig. Es ist wie Fitness. Wenn du eine bestimmte Menge runnst und es jeden Tag machst, dann bist du am Ende des Jahres viel fitter, als du warst, als du angefangen hast.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Das ist eine tolle Frage. This is what worked for me. I'm a lot of other things who work for a lot of other people. But I sort of, when I asked myself, why am I constantly being defeated by this force of resistance? Why do I cave in? Why do I go halfway? That kind of thing. And I sort of said to myself, what I'm really doing is I'm acting and operating like an amateur and not like a professional.
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Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Like for instance, when an amateur encounters adversity, an amateur folds. But a professional doesn't. A professional shows up every day. Think about Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant or anybody like that, LeBron James or something. Another thing that a professional does is a professional plays hurt. If you're spraying your ankle or something like that,
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Wenn du ein Amateur bist, wirst du sagen, okay, diese Verletzung ist zu viel, ich kann nicht mehr durchgehen. Aber ein Pro spielt durch diese Verletzung und weiß, dass man sie spielen muss. Nichts wird immer perfekt sein. Die schlechtesten Tage sind manchmal die Tage, an denen du das Beste machst. But the thing is to think of it as a real profession and to think of yourself as a professional.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And ask yourself when you feel that, hit that moment of adversity, what would a pro do in a case like this? And what's great about thinking of yourself as a pro is it doesn't cost anything. You don't have to go to school. You don't have to take a course. You don't have to do any. All you have to do is change your mind. And, you know, it worked for me.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
It's not easy, but it's a great way of thinking of yourself.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich glaube, du hattest den Knall auf den Kopf, Russell. Es ist eine Frage der Identität, so viel es auch etwas anderes ist. Viele Leute sagen sich selbst, ich bin ein inspirierender Unternehmer. Oder ich bin ein inspirierender Schauspieler oder ein inspirierender Schauspieler. Man muss das Adjektiv entfernen. Auch wenn man nicht damit Geld verdient, kann man sich denken, dass man das ist.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich bin ein Wrestler, ich bin ein Schauspieler, ich bin ein Tänzer. Dann funktioniert es.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
I was like 52 years old.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Nun, aus irgendeiner Art und Weise, sobald ich das erste Buch geschrieben habe, das veröffentlicht wurde, ich habe nicht viel Geld verdient, aber es gab ein bisschen einen Ausflug. Ich wusste einfach, dass ich jetzt ein Schauspieler bin. Und ich will keine Filme mehr machen, ich will kein Schauspieler mehr sein.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und die nächste Frage für mich, ich bin mir sicher, du hattest die gleiche Frage, war, was soll ich jetzt tun? Also habe ich einfach auf die nächste Idee gewartet, und es war eine ganz andere Sache, ein Buch namens Gates of Fire, das um die 300 Spartaner im Kampf um Thermopylae ging. Und dann war ich auf und um und es war nur die Frage, was ist nächstes, was ist nächstes, was ist nächstes.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich denke, ich habe bis jetzt ungefähr 23 Bücher oder so, was für mich irgendwie erstaunlich ist.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich glaube, die Artkrieg kam 2002. Ich war also etwa sieben Jahre in meinem Büro-Written-Welt. Und ich habe das nur gemacht, weil Leute mich über und über gefragt haben, wie man ein Buch schreibt. Ich habe ein Buch und ich möchte ein Buch schreiben. Und ich sitze mit ihnen live, in Person, mit meinen Freunden.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und das erste, was ich ihnen erzählen würde, war Resistenz, R. Ich würde sie warnen, ich habe keine Ahnung, wie groß deine Idee ist, ohne dass du diese Sache überwinden kannst, wirst du nie irgendwo hin. Und natürlich hat niemand mich gehört, niemand hat ihr Buch geschrieben. Sie wurden alle von der Resistenz verletzt. Aber sie kamen immer. Und ich sagte, lass mich das einfach schreiben.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich mache ein kleines Buch und dann sage ich, wenn mich jemand fragt, sage ich, hier, lesen wir das. Das war also so, wie die Artkrieg angefangen hat. Und es war nicht erfolgreich am Anfang. Es hat ziemlich lange gedauert, um es anzupassen. Und dann habe ich angefangen, ein paar Follower zu schreiben, wie Sie wissen.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Well, I do think that we're talking about being a profession, right? And a professional shows up every day, just like your mentor said to you, two pages a day and you've got two books a year. But I think I'm no different from most writers. I write every day. That's my job. This is what I do. This is my calling. And I'm also a believer in not stopping. Some people will finish a project
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Und sie werden es publizieren oder veröffentlichen, es starten und dann warten sie auf die Antwort. Ist es ein Hint oder was auch immer. Ich bin definitiv von der anderen Schule. Ich fühle mich wirklich, je nachdem, wann du Nummer 6 beendet hast, gehst du zu Nummer 7. Und so ist das, wie man weiß, ein Buch folgt dem anderen. Und bevor du es weißt, hast du eine ganze Reihe.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Pretty much one at a time. Depending on what has grabbed me and seized me at the moment.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Well, a non-fiction I would say The War of Art, you know, because that was, you know. The second book after The Legend of Agrabahns is a book called Gates of Fire. That's probably, that's the one that has sold actually more than The War of Art. But to an audience that is probably not your audience, it's probably a different audience. But that would be, I think, my second favorite.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Also, ja, ich würde...
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ich gebe ein bisschen Pitch für den täglichen Pressefeld. Ja, pitch es. Für euren Publikum hier. Das ist der neueste. Wo habe ich ihn? Ich glaube, ich habe ihn hier irgendwo. And this is sort of a, but when people come to me and say, how do I write a book or how do I do a long form thing, whatever it might be, a screenplay, a startup or whatever, I give them this. This is like a 365-day project.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
I don't know if I'd call it a course. It's not a course, but it's something that you, if you started into it, you'll know what I'm talking about. Something you could put beside your laptop or whatever it is and just pick, take it a day at a time. And it kind of starts for you from day one and kind of. Das ist großartig.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
A book which is a fiction book, a novel, which is a follow-up to this book, A Man at Arms, that came out about two or three years ago. And so I just finished that. I haven't given it to my agent yet. I'm not sure exactly. I'm fixing a few things in it. And then I've started another story, another story set in in another period of time, another fiction book.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And just for fun, just to show you that I'm not immune to the stuff I'm talking about, I am riddled with self-doubt over this new book. Exactly like with The Legend of Agravance and other things where I say to myself, Is anybody going to be interested in this? Is it the dumbest idea you've ever come up with yet? Et cetera, et cetera.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And again, like what I said before about the tree and the meadow with the sun and the shadow, I take that as a good sign. I say, if I've got this big resistance that's trying to get me to not do this book, Dann muss es etwas dazu geben. Es muss etwas Gutes hier sein.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Also versuche ich mich jeden Tag, wie du, wenn du runnst oder ins Gym gehst, oder ich, wenn ich das gleiche mache, sage ich, ich muss es machen, ich muss es machen, ich muss es machen. In Wahrheit habe ich noch nicht heute gearbeitet. Sobald wir es beenden, Russell, werde ich sitzen und aufhören, auch wenn ich nur eine Stunde kann. Ja.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
That's a great question. It's actually one of the big frustrations of my life. The audiences don't cross. And the people that read my fiction, I can't get them to be interested at all in the War of Art. And the people who like the War of Art, I can't get them to read my fiction. And I've actually, I've just, I've given up, you know. There are two completely different audiences.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
And it's very frustrating to me.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ja, es war lustig.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Yeah, read Gates of Fire next, yeah.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
By the way, I just want to say to anybody listening, the book of Bagger Vance is a lot better than the movie, so... It's interesting, because there are parts in the movie of Bagger Vance, when like...
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Ja, sie machen ihre Sache, ja.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
entrepreneurs, rather than writers and artists and stuff like that, because it's the same thing. The same principles apply and the same resistance comes up, which I never even realized when I first started. I thought, this is only writers who go through this. And it was sort of amazing to me to see that people start in businesses, of course they go through it. It's exactly the same thing.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
So anyway, thanks for having me. If you want to do this again sometime, I'm delighted to do it.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Thanks a lot, Russell. Thank you. We'll talk to you soon. Go out and buy a potato can tomorrow.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Awesome. Thanks so much, man. I appreciate you.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Imagine a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow. The minute the tree appears, a shadow appears. And the shadow is equal to the tree, right? If it's a big tree, it's a big shadow. So in the terms of resistance, the tree is the dream that you have. The book you want to write, the venture you want to do, whatever. And resistance is the shadow.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
So there would not, what I want to say is resistance always comes second. There would be no resistance if there wasn't a dream, if there wasn't a calling that was inside you. So the good news of that is when you're feeling big resistance, that big shadow, Das zeigt, dass es einen großen Baum gibt.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Es gibt große Träume, weil Resistenz immer wie Newton's drittes Gesetz der Bewegung kommt, eine gleiche und äußerliche Reaktion. Es ist eine Reaktion zu einer Aspiration, zu einem Buch, das du schreiben willst, oder einem Film, das du willst, was auch immer es ist.
The Russell Brunson Show
Winning the War of Art: Overcoming Resistance with Steven Pressfield
Also, sei nicht überrascht, würde ich jemandem sagen, von diesem dunklen Mond, dieser dunklen Schatten ist ein Beweis, dass der Traum wirklich ist und es groß ist.