Steven Pressfield

War is the nature, in my opinion, the nature of life on the material plane.

That inside our own heads, we talk about, you and I talked about the war art, right?

We fight a war against ourselves, our own base or nature.

And

Just as Telemann is a warrior in this material world and finds his way out of it by setting down the sword, I think we all, that's what Robert Kennedy said, to make gentle the life of this world.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, definitely.

I mean, hopefully it's universal.

In ancient Greece, Arcadia, it's a province of Greece, it was famous for its mercenaries, soldiers that fought for money, as opposed to Spartans and Athenians and Argives and so on and so forth.

And

Telemann is one who fights for money.

In other words, he's just he's a soldier who fights for the fighting alone and has accepted the odyssey of a soldier as the odyssey of his life.

That's why it's called The Arcadian.

Thank you very much.

I'm grateful to you.

Thanks for having me, Anthony.

For years when I was struggling and could never get it together, I realized that at one point that I was just thinking like an amateur.

And that if I could flip a switch in my mind and think like a professional, that I could overcome some of the things.

A professional shows up every day.

A professional stays on the job.