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Steven Pressfield

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Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

In fact, if I can, if I can hide one of my books, it's a small follow-up to the War of Art calls, nobody wants to read your shit.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And it kind of, a lot of it is about what you learn in advertising because nobody wants to read your ads or listen to your commercials or anything like that.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And so one thing you learn in that business is

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

to make it so good or so interesting, so intriguing that people will overcome their hatred of having to listen to your stupid Preparation H commercial.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

So that was, anyway, that was what got me started, but I was never a storyteller as a kid, no.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

I mean, I know that young people today, there's a tremendous amount of pressure on people to find their passion, you know, and follow their passion and so on and so forth.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And I know for me, I would, as a young person, I would go, what the fuck is that?

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

I don't know what it is that I want to do, you know.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

I'm lost.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

I'm just, you know, struggling.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

But I do think that we are all born young.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

with some sort of a, at least one, a kind of a calling of some kind.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And it may not be the arts, you know, it may be helping other people through some kind of a nonprofit or something, or like what you're doing, Andrew, you know, where you're bringing neuroscience and the scientific, you know, to personal development, so on and so forth.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

I think we do all have some sort of calling.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And like, we know it.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

Like if we could somehow put somebody in here and say, I'll give you three seconds.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

Tell me what you should be supposed to be doing.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

It will pop into somebody's head.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

You know, they go, oh, you know, I knew, I know I've always wanted to do, to be a motorcycle, whatever, you know?

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

So.