Steven Pressfield

But when we were talking about it, the vision was on a really big, big scale.

And I think if you look at everything you've done and everything I've tried to do, if you look at the podcast, for example, I've taken it, so seriously and something that really shaped that was in during COVID times I read Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield and it's all about everything that you turn your attention to so all those hours in your week you put into your work be a total pro don't play at this don't be an amateur don't take it like a walk in the park or some sort of like side pursuit when you do something go all in on it and I'd much rather be narrow and deep than wide and shallow and I think when I thought about this business and somebody like an operator like yourself an operator is a key term we'll come on to the kind of synergy was there from the very, very start.

Yeah.

I'd agree with that too.

And I, uh, realize that like feeling the feelings that actually you can really tap into it deeper than when you're numbing or when you're, you know, using it as a cover for, I also think that there's a book that really helped me along my journey, which was called the war of art.

um, by Steven Pressfield.

And he basically is just kind of, it's, it's kind of like the book is a kick in the ass, just saying like professionals don't wait to be inspired to begin writing or begin their creative work.

The it's the amateur that, oh, I need to feel inspired in this moment in order to pick up the guitar or whatever it is.

Between the two stands resistance.

That is a quote from Steven Pressfield, and he is the author of The War of Art.

And in today's segment of books that have changed my life, I am going to be sharing with you The War of Art by Steven Pressfield as a book that has changed my life and allowed me to achieve my dreams, more money, more freedom, and a life that is more me.

It's allowed me to build media companies.

to show up.

Their mind does them in long before the business had a chance to start, grow, or really long before it would have become a success.

So to me, I started reading books when I found a great guest.

Usually I'd listen to podcasts or video shows and I'd hear, oh, Steven Pressfield.

But when you sit down and actually write something out and are very thoughtful in that writing, that writing is a form of thinking.

I think it's Steven Pressfield says it.

He says, writing is weird medicine.

I sit down not knowing what I think and I get up knowing.

What's unique, you know? Uh, All the things that we tell ourselves that gets in the way.

Another great book for your audience to learn about if they don't know is The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

I haven't heard of that.

That's one of my favorites.

recommend me a book

so i i So I had, I was going to recommend The Fight by Norman Mailer, which is a book, basically Norman Mailer was a writer who, he was a boxing writer and he went to, he essentially followed Muhammad Ali's Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle so the book is kind of on that but since you said that you're a writer I'm going to recommend a book that I recommend to anybody who's creative but there's an author called Steven Pressfield and he wrote a book called The War of Art which I think for any person that's creative in any sense be it a writer a musician podcaster even a chef whatever it is it's the best book on creativity i've ever read it kind of gives really practical tips as to how you kind of get through get through those blocks where you just can't seem to you can't seem to write you can't seem to get your ideas out um it's such a it's such a powerful book and he's a super inspiring character because So he was in his early twenties, he worked in some ad agency and he decided that he wanted to be a writer and he wanted to write novels.

It took him, 20, 25 years to finish his first novel.

And then it took him another 10 years to get a novel published.