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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
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Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.
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It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'
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When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
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Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.
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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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