Ep. 81 Steven Pressfield: Win Your Inner Creative Battles

🔔 SUBSCRIBE to help get more guests on the show ✉️ Get Immediately Actionable Tactics to Be More Strategic: http://eepurl.com/dELB39 ---------------------------- RELATED LINKS Book: https://amzn.to/3DqSTcM Instagram: steven_pressfield Website: https://stevenpressfield.com/ Steven Pressfield's struggles to make a living as an author, including the period when he was homeless and living out of the back of his car, are detailed in his 2002 book The War of Art. Pressfield's first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was loosely based on the Bhagavad Gita, was published in 1995, and was made into a 2000 film of the same name directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon. His second novel, Gates of Fire (1998), is about the Spartans and the battle at Thermopylae. It is taught at the U.S. Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico. 00:00 - Introduction 00:24 - How to beat self doubt? 05:42 - All is Lost moments 11:29 - Separate doubt from reality 16:36 - Transcend pain and fear 24:19 - Do the Muses drive artists? 26:15 - Mentors and life experience 32:58 - Exile is the human condition 37:37 - Failure and truck driving 39:44 - Developing a craft 43:10 - Afghanistan never changes 48:07 - Military discipline in art 51:10 - Pressure to be great 52:36 - Find your reality 56:26 - Fiction is truth 1:03:56 - Shame and creativity 1:06:55 - Steve's goal 1:08:37 - Find meaning #stevenpressfield #thewarofart 

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