Steven Pressfield

An amateur gets a bad review, bad response of this, and they just crap out.

I don't want to do this anymore, right?

A professional plays hurt.

Like if Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, if they've tweaked the hamstring, they're out there.

They'll die before they'll be taken off the court.

Whereas an amateur, when he or she confronts adversity, will fold.

Oh, it's too cold out.

I've got the flu, that kind of thing.

Another thing, an amateur worries about how they feel.

Like, oh, I don't feel like getting out of bed this morning.

I don't feel like really doing my work today.

A professional doesn't care how they feel.

They do it, right?

So an amateur has amateur habits and a professional has professional habits.

And my book, Turning Pro, is about that, flipping that switch in your head that costs no money.

You don't have to take a course.

You don't have to get certified.

All you have to do is sort of say to yourself, if you can do it, and it ain't easy, okay, I'm going to attack this thing, whatever it is now, as if I were Kobe Bryant.

You know, would he quit?

You know, when he didn't feel like doing it?