"Of course, you and I can be addicted to any number of things - to love, to sex, to worship of our children or our parents, to dominance, to submission. We can even be addicted to ourselves (see Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump). Such individuals can be absolutely fascinating at the same time as they're boring as hell."
#StevenPressfield, Going Pro, 2012
"When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling — meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves." - Steven Pressfield
"アマチュアのままでいると、君は自分の天職から遠ざかってしまう。それは、君の仕事、君の運命、最高の自分になる責任から逃げているということだ。" - スティーヴン・プレスフィールド
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“The hero’s journey can take place on a battlefield or in a cubicle. We can live it out amid public clamor or in the soundless vault between our ears. The demons we are dueling are always the same. They are our own fears of becoming who we are. No one who has ever lived—or ever will—has a journey like ours. And yet our journey is universal. It is every woman’s and every man’s.” - Steven Pressfield
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“Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.”
-Steven Pressfield
"あなたのストーリーや新しいビジネスを、一枚の紙にまとめる力を身につけよう。余計なものを削ぎ落とし、本質だけを残そう。"
-スティーヴンプレスフィールド
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Between the two
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
~ Steven Pressfield, from Writing Wednesdays: The Unlived Life
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For me there’s a huge tension between those two. I see so many things that I want to do—and I don’t mean binge-watch TV shows. I imagine something I’d like to write—for example, a weekly, emailed publication for paying subscribers—and the complexity of creating it overwhelms me. The writing is the easy part; Or, am I deluding myself? The only salve I’ve found is to remind myself over and over and over that I consistently overestimate what I can get done in a day, and underestimate what I can get done in a lifetime.
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Don’t stand in the shade
Remember we employed a visual to help us understand this. We said that the Dream is like a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow. The tree casts a shadow.
~ Steven Pressfield, from Writing Wednesdays: Gotta Do It
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I find Pressfield’s metaphor to be striking. The tree in the meadow casts a real shadow. I was struck by the layers in this metaphor: light and darkness, the singular clarity of lone tree in an open space as a symbol of a life’s purpose, the proportional relationship of the larger the tree the larger and darker the shadow, and that one’s ability to avoid or at least escape the shadow is a choice we make.
By extension then, if one attempts to nurture multiple callings, visions or projects, one has multiple big trees. That’s at least a copse of trees whose shadows merge together creating something much more significant to avoid or escape from.
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The real fear
These are serious fears. But they’re not the real fear. Not the Master Fear, the Mother of all Fears that’s so close to us that even when we verbalize it we don’t believe it. Fear That We Will Succeed. That we can access the powers we secretly know we possess. That we can become the person we sense in our hearts we truly are.
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"I woke up the next morning in a motel room, by myself, in the same clothes I had been wearing the night before, with an empty quart of Jim Beam on the bedstand beside me.
Why that time was different from any of a hundred times before, I don't know. But as I was staring at my reflection in the bathroom mirror, I heard my own voice say, 'that's enough, darling. This shit has got to stop'."
Ms X. In Bakersfield, recounted by #StevenPressfield in Going Pro, 2012
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