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Steven Pressfield

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1426 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

So then when they see you, Andrew, starting your podcast, that's a reproach to them.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And they say, well, if Andrew can do it, why can't I do it, you know?

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And so then it becomes kind of malicious.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And I don't think it's deliberately malicious a lot of times.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

But people will then try to undermine you and say – and under the guise of we're only looking out for you.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

We don't want your children to be starving and in the street.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

They will try to undermine you and stop you from doing it and make fun of you or ridicule you like –

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

The filmmaker David O. Russell, I don't know if you know who I'm talking about.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

He did The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

I love that movie.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

He did Silver Linings Playbook with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

I did not see that one, but I did see The Fighter.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And Joy about the lady who invented the miracle mop, which was Jennifer Lawrence.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And all of these stories are about –

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

sabotage by the people closest to you, particularly your family.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

Like in The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg is this boxer, right?

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And he's got seven sisters, and he also has an older brother.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And they're like, and his mom is his manager, and she's like booking him fights where he's outweighed by 20 pounds and he gets massacred, you know?

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

And the story is, you know, he finally meets a girl who's like really supportive of him.

Huberman Lab
How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

But anyway, it's a real theme that the people closest to us will try to.