Steven Pressfield

I don't know if you've heard about this one at all.

But the chapters are named after the various mentors that I've had.

And many, many of them.

And a lot of them are not in the writing world at all.

And like my friend Paul, he was in the writing world.

But...

You know, I had a boss at a trucking company that I worked for that was like a real mentor to me.

I picked fruit in Washington State, you know, as a migratory worker, you know, for a while.

And I had a mentor there.

I never even knew his last name.

He was a fellow fruit picker, you know, a former Marine who was at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.

I'm sure nobody listening to this knows what that is.

But it was like an amazing horror show of heroism in any way.

It was a work ethic in both cases.

In the one, again, I'll sort of get a little into the weeds here a little bit.

Please, please.

I was I had gone to a tractor trailer driving school and I got hired to work for this company in North Carolina.

And I was, you know, a beginner.

And I really I fucked up big time one time.

I dropped a trailer with like three hundred thousand dollars worth of, you know, industrial equipment in it.