Steven Pressfield

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490 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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TAKING AIM · Steven Pressfield on Resistance, Turning Pro, and Why He Didn't Succeed Until Age 52 · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And uh

they they couldn't figure it out because they finally did figure it out.

But it was a real interesting process of all the different ways they tried to uh to to reconstruct this thing that the ancient writers never decided to talk about because they figured everybody knows what a triream is.

I think I kind of believe, as I'm sure you know from the war of art,

I believe that life is a battle.

You know, it's a it's a battle in between our ears, you know, between our own

desire our aim, martial artist or whatever it might be, and our own tendency to sabotage ourselves, you know, to procrastinate and to fuck up in all the ways that we do, you know.

And so

using that battle in our head as a metaphor, I'm kinda drawn to to war stories and um where there's a literal enemy, not just an enemy in our head.

So that I think that's

Again, I'm kinda guessing 'cause I don't even know why.

It's not like I make up my mind to do this.

I'm just sort of

It's an inst instinct that I follow.

Yeah.

And

Uh it sort of became clear to me over time that um

The virtues of a warrior are the

Are the same virtues that an artist needs and

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