Steven Pressfield

Workouts.

I don't seem to get ideas during workouts, but I completely agree with that, that, you know, those ideas that come like in the shower or when you're on the subway or when you're driving along the freeway, your mind is occupied in something else, right?

Your ego is involved and somehow it opens the pipeline and things burble up and you always think, oh, I'll remember that.

But you forget it's like a dream, you know?

They just go away.

So, yeah, I mean, I'll just dictate it into my phone.

I mean, my phone now is full of stuff that I've got to transcribe.

But I couldn't agree more with that.

It's amazing how they go away.

See, I'm a different believer.

I don't believe it's really coming from the subconscious.

I'm a believer in the goddess.

I'm a believer in the muse.

I think it's coming from someplace else, you know, and that they're playing with us a little bit, you know.

Like I know Steven Spielberg says, when an idea comes, he says it whispers rather than shouting, which is his way, I think, of saying, you know, it's a very subtle thing that goes away very fast, you know, and you've got to grab it while it's there.

Well, you know, if you go back to the ancient Greeks, right?

Every, the Iliad or the Odyssey or any of those other great works always start with an invocation of the muse, right?

Homer writes, you know, goddess, you know, tell the story, you know, and basically the

the artist is stepping or taking his ego out of the picture and saying, I'm not the one that's going to tell you this story about ancient Troy.

The goddess will tell through me.