Steven Pressfield

And he couldn't make himself send it off, you know.

And the sad part of the story is my friend died.

And so that was, I don't know whether that was perfectionism or just fear of being judged in the real world.

So it's a real vice, perfectionism, and to be guarded against at all costs, I think.

But when a thing is ready to go, let it go.

I'd like to talk about death.

Because I've never read it.

Yeah, definitely.

I was having breakfast in New York a couple of years ago with a friend of mine who's exactly my age, you know.

And I asked him, I said, Nick, how often do you think about your own mortality?

And he said, every fucking minute of every fucking day, you know.

Yeah.

So...

I don't know if I go that far, but I'm definitely aware of it.

You know, like Robert Redford died two days ago, right, in his sleep.

You know, to me, it was like an immortal guy that was going to live forever.

On the other hand, I have another friend who actually died a couple of years ago.

It was one of my bosses in advertising named Phil Slott, great, smart guy.

And he said one time to me –

that people tell you that life is short, but really life is long.