Turning Pro
Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work
by Steven Pressfield
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“If I was the head superintendent of every school in the universe Turning Pro would be on the core curriculum. | In the same vein as his other books ?Do the Work? and ?War of Art? but a message that needs to be said again and again to really get through. It's all about the resistance, avoiding distractions, getting serious. Here he dives more into the mindset shift of thinking of your art as a hobby versus a real career. This stuff shakes me to the core, every time. | In the same vein as his other books “Do the Work” and ”War of Art” but a message that needs to be said again and again to really get through. It's all about the resistance, avoiding distractions, getting serious. Here he dives more into the mindset shift of thinking of your art as a hobby versus a real career. This stuff shakes me to the core, every time. | Reading Steven Pressfield's "Turning Pro." A great motivational book for creative types and those prone to procrastination.”
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Best Books on Writing, Most Recommended Books, and Writing.
Turning pro is free, but it's not easy.When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own.Turning pro is free, but it demands sacrifice.The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are surv...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Best Books on Writing, Most Recommended Books, and Writing.
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“If I was the head superintendent of every school in the universe Turning Pro would be on the core curriculum. | In the same vein as his other books ?Do the Work? and ?War of Art? but a message that needs to be said again and again to really get through. It's all about the resistance, avoiding distractions, getting serious. Here he dives more into the mindset shift of thinking of your art as a hobby versus a real career. This stuff shakes me to the core, every time. | In the same vein as his other books “Do the Work” and ”War of Art” but a message that needs to be said again and again to really get through. It's all about the resistance, avoiding distractions, getting serious. Here he dives more into the mindset shift of thinking of your art as a hobby versus a real career. This stuff shakes me to the core, every time. | Reading Steven Pressfield's "Turning Pro." A great motivational book for creative types and those prone to procrastination.”
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