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On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Screenwriter
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Port-of-Spain
Redefining
Journey
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.
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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.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
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In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
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To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.
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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave to defend makes them timorous.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration he acts in anticipation of it.
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