Steven Pressfield

And every morning before I sit down to work, I say that prayer and

you know, out loud and in full earnest, you know, God has helped me.

And I'm absolutely a believer in that, you know, that ideas come from another place.

And it's our job, and I don't think it's just subconscious.

It's our job to open the pipeline and get out of the way.

Yeah, it was a sad thing to lose that, you know.

But, you know, it's in my head, you know.

How long is it?

It was on one page, double spaced.

I would say it takes, to recite it, it takes maybe 90 seconds.

I'll call up just the opening of it because the middle part is Homer sort of describing the whole story of the Odyssey.

But it starts like this.

It goes, Oh, divine poesie.

Goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man, meaning Odysseus.

And then he kind of goes on to talk about da-da-da-da.

And at the end it says, make this tale live for us in all its many bearings, O muse.

Which I think is a great, you know, make it live, make it come alive in all its many bearings.

And so, you know, that's a...

Thanks to my friend, Paul.

That's been a thing that's been with me for 40 years.