Steven Pressfield

But when a thing is ready to go, let it go.

I'd like to talk about death.

Because I've never read it.

Yeah, definitely.

I was having breakfast in New York a couple of years ago with a friend of mine who's exactly my age, you know.

And I asked him, I said, Nick, how often do you think about your own mortality?

And he said, every fucking minute of every fucking day, you know.

Yeah.

So...

I don't know if I go that far, but I'm definitely aware of it.

You know, like Robert Redford died two days ago, right, in his sleep.

You know, to me, it was like an immortal guy that was going to live forever.

On the other hand, I have another friend who actually died a couple of years ago.

It was one of my bosses in advertising named Phil Slott, great, smart guy.

And he said one time to me –

that people tell you that life is short, but really life is long.

And like thinking about you, Andrew, that you're 50 years old, you've got another 50 years ahead of you, you know, so that one has to think, you know, it can be also a form of resistance.

Like for me at my age to think, well, I'm only going to be around a few more years.

I might as well fuck off or, you know, I don't have to work that hard, you know, but no, because I might be around for another 20 years or more.

That's a career.