Steven Pressfield

You know, I could, I could, at the end of the day, I felt, okay, I've earned my place on the planet doing this.

Whereas other things I would, at the end of the day, I would just be crazy, you know?

So I was sort of led to that.

It was like, thank God I found something, you know, that I can, you know, hang my hat on.

And over, that was a long time ago.

And over the course of those years, I sort of, from time to time, I asked myself, is this still working for you?

Or is this, are you, did you, you know, should you be evolving into something beyond this?

But it is still working for me.

And there is, I don't really have a bucket list of stuff, you know.

If somebody gave me a billion dollars, I'd just give it away, you know.

So, yeah, it just was, for me,

And again, it's not even like about peak success because I haven't had peak success at all.

You know, I've had enough success to pay the rent, which is good enough for me.

You know, I'm doing what I want to do and I don't have to do something else.

So it is for me, it's really a sort of pursuit of what I figure like I was put on the planet to do.

And it's always been a surprise, too.

book to book to book.

Each one is a surprise, which is another sort of weird, counterintuitive thing.

It isn't like, oh, could you do a five-year planning on this and this?

No.