Steven Pressfield
Revise that: Resistance strikes BEFORE we begin. How many of us have collected “notes” and amassed “research” for that life-altering project we’ve always dreamt of tackling?
Read MoreWho will teach us? Who will be our guide and mentor on this monumental passage from the Old World of working for someone else to the New World of being the “rightful sovereign of our own person?”
Read MoreWhen you and I quit a job—literally or metaphorically—we’re like that fish that first crawled up on dry land. We’re like Rambo or Wonder Woman or Dorothy on the road to Oz.
Read MoreWhat exactly is keeping you and me from being “the rightful lords of our own persons?”
Read MoreOne of the great works of world literature is Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, the comprehensive account, compiled in the moment, of the twenty-seven-year “civil war” between Athens and Sparta.
Read MoreWe spoke in the previous post about mankind’s evolution over hundreds of thousands of years from savage to barbarian to slave and helot, serf and peasant to courtier, conscript, subject of a king or queen. In other words, some form of pawnship in which the capacity to think and act for ourselves was either limited or proscribed completely.
Read MoreWhat about today? Remember John Lennon’s song, Working Class Hero?
Read MoreDid our circumstances improve with the rise of civilization?
Read MoreWe started this series of posts with the thought that …
Read MoreThe enemy inside our heads will tell us—and I mean all of us, including Shakespeare and Dante and the Dalai Lama—that we are worthless, without talent, too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too smart, too dumb to achieve our dreams.
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