Steven Pressfield

One of the things you learn is that screenwriters a lot of times will have their one-man corporations, and they will not sign a contract as themselves.

It won't be Andrew Huberman on the contract.

It'll be your corporation, Huberman Lab, FSO, for services of Andrew Huberman.

And I really love that idea of thinking of yourself

as a two-part thing.

You're the CEO of this thing and then you're also the guy that does the work.

And I would find that if I was just thinking of myself as the guy that's doing the work,

I have a hard time pitching my ideas.

I'm sort of too shy.

But if I'm the CEO of my company, of my corporation, I'm a pro, I can go in there and pimp the hell out of it.

So that idea of looking at yourself as a professional kind of takes all judgment out of any failures that we've had.

We don't blame ourselves anymore for mistakes.

procrastinating or being perfectionists or giving into fear or self-doubt or anything.

We just say, well, okay, I did that when I was thinking like an amateur, but now I'm going to think like a pro and a pro just doesn't yield to that stuff.

So that's a mind shift, a mindset shift that really helped me a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We were talking about that earlier, Andrew, when I was saying that like it becomes when you start eating healthy and sleeping and getting up early and stuff, it becomes a reproach to your friends who know that they're not doing that, know they should be doing that.

And they say, who's this guy to do that?

And then they will try to sabotage you and undermine you and ridicule you.