Steven Pressfield

You know, I sort of, it's a vice, which I've got to definitely stop doing.

But I will go like through Instagram and do that, you know, just kind of, as far as like communicating with people, very little, you know.

Like my email, I'm done with my email in like two minutes in the morning, you know.

If we accept the idea of resistance with a capital R, that's our own internal tendency to sabotage ourselves when we try to set out to write our book or do our movie or follow our calling, whatever it is, then the question becomes, well, how do you overcome this thing?

What worked for me was the idea of turning pro.

For years when I was struggling and could never get it together, I realized that at one point that I was just thinking like an amateur.

And that if I could flip a switch in my mind and think like a professional, that I could overcome some of the things.

When I think of a great pro, I think of Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan or Tom Brady or somebody like that.

And so like a professional, some of the characteristics of a professional as opposed to an amateur.

Mm-hmm.

A professional shows up every day.

A professional stays on the job all day or with the equivalent of all day.

I mean, a lot of us who have jobs are professionals in our jobs.

But when we come home at night and we try to start our band or our fiddle band, we flame out on that because we can't sort of carry over that professional attitude.

A professional, as I said this before, does not take success or failure personally.

An amateur will, right?

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.