Steven Pressfield
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So then when they see you, Andrew, starting your podcast, that's a reproach to them.
And they say, well, if Andrew can do it, why can't I do it, you know?
And so then it becomes kind of malicious.
And I don't think it's deliberately malicious a lot of times.
But people will then try to undermine you and say β and under the guise of we're only looking out for you.
We don't want your children to be starving and in the street.
They will try to undermine you and stop you from doing it and make fun of you or ridicule you like β
The filmmaker David O. Russell, I don't know if you know who I'm talking about.
He did The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg.
I love that movie.
He did Silver Linings Playbook with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.
I did not see that one, but I did see The Fighter.
And Joy about the lady who invented the miracle mop, which was Jennifer Lawrence.
And all of these stories are about β
sabotage by the people closest to you, particularly your family.
Like in The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg is this boxer, right?
And he's got seven sisters, and he also has an older brother.
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?
And the story is, you know, he finally meets a girl who's like really supportive of him.
But anyway, it's a real theme that the people closest to us will try to.