Steven Pressfield

He'd say, oh, you know, what happened to Andrew?

Oh, he pulled the pin.

So at the time that I was there, I was trying for the first time to finish a book.

And I had run out of money, and this is why I was working to get the money.

And I realized that in my life, I had pulled the pin on everything that I'd ever done, on my marriage, on this, that, the other.

And this friend of mine, John...

Would I wanted to quit before the season ended, you know, and he would not let me do it.

You know, he sort of just had he just took me under his wing.

And so that was another thing which is drilled into my head in the sense of.

Am I going to finish this project?

Fuck yeah, I'd rather die.

I will die before I'll give up on this project.

And it was all because of him.

So those are two mentors that weren't writing mentors, but that I used there.

Those lessons stuck with me forever.

And I will say one thing, too, for anybody that's struggling with finishing anything,

Once I did finish that book, which I did, I've never had any trouble finishing anything ever again, whereas it was my bête noire for years.

I would fumble on the goal line, you know.

Resistance, former resistance.

I think that it's another great question.