Steven Pressfield
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, I'm not going to pull the pin.
It's either The War of Art or Gates of Fire.
Okay.
What book came after that?
But on – let me say on both of them, it took years, years for that – for either of them to reach any kind of level.
Neither of them were overnight successes.
There wasn't any –
Any of that fanfare, nothing, really.
Finally, like maybe eight or 10 years later, you realize, oh, you know, this thing is percolating along pretty good.
So that's a whole different sort of, there wasn't that much dopamine coming in to me on that.
That's probably a good thing.
Yeah, I think so.
I'm human.
But definitely the ideal.
is to really move beyond that.
It sounds like a very Zen sort of story.
The pastor would say,
Sweep the corner.
Yeah.
I mean, I certainly don't believe in it at all.