Steven Pressfield
The 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.
Read MoreI was doing a free rewrite on the lot at MGM when a producer friend spotted me on the bungalow’s porch and plopped down in the chair beside me. She asked me what I was working on beside this freebie.
Read MoreI was in a production meeting at Warner Bros. for the second Steven Seagal movie, Hard to Kill. It was called Seven Year Storm at that time. The director was a gentleman named Bruce Malmuth.
Read MoreWe asked in last week’s post, “What do we do differently when we quit working on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company and go into business (or art or craft) for ourselves?”
Read MoreWhen you and I worked on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, we had to worry about our production quotas, our standards of workmanship, and our supervisor’s evaluation of us.
Read MoreElizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and the brand-new All the Way to the River. She’s also a deep and honorable thinker on the subject of the artist and the artist’s soul.
Read MoreI’ve always wondered how the great avatars and truly evolved personages respond to the boring, quotidian, zero-glam aspects of their lives.
Read MorePeople ask sometimes, “What time in your day do you first experience Resistance?”
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