Steven Pressfield
What 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.
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.
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