Fulfill Your Calling Through Creative Work | Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield's struggles to make a living as an author, including the period when he was homeless and living out of the back of his car, are detailed in his 2002 book The War of Art. Pressfield's first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was loosely based on the Bhagavad Gita, was published in 1995, and was made into a 2000 film of the same name directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon. His second novel, Gates of Fire (1998), is about the Spartans and the battle at Thermopylae. It is taught at the U.S. Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy and the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico.
00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - How to beat self doubt?
05:42 - All Is Lost moments
11:29 - Separate doubt from reality
16:36 - Transcend pain and fear
24:19 - Muses and artists
26:15 - Mentors and life experience
32:58 - Exile is the human condition
37:37 - Failure and truck driving
39:44 - Developing a craft
43:10 - Afghanistan never changes
48:07 - Military discipline in art
51:10 - Pressure to be great
52:36 - Find your reality
56:26 - Fiction is truth
1:03:56 - Shame and creativity
1:06:55 - Steve's goal
1:08:37 - Find meaning
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Hell yes. THIS is the high quality content that I hope you produce. Legends, not shallow alarmists and shills.
@BradCarr_
Жыл бұрын
Hey! Glad you enjoy it. Yes, Pressfield is a legend for sure :)
Hearing your story has been EXTREMELY inspiring to me and has changed my approach to...well, pretty much everything now. Thank you, Steven.
Every question is a really good question
I am grateful Steve emptied that tractor trailer so to speak, which is a pretty profound metaphor of artists as carriers. I found the War of Art a few years ago and it has given me a new outlook on my artistic life and working with the muses. Thanks Steve and thank you Brad for your work bringing this excellent interview.
@BradCarr_
Жыл бұрын
@David Garza, thank you for the thoughtful comment. Glad Steve's work is helpful for your creative process
Hi! Timestamps below. 00:00 - Introduction 00:24 - How to beat self doubt? 05:42 - All Is Lost moments 11:29 - Separate doubt from reality 16:36 - Transcend pain and fear 24:19 - Muses and artists 26:15 - Mentors and life experience 32:58 - Exile is the human condition 37:37 - Failure and truck driving 39:44 - Developing a craft 43:10 - Afghanistan never changes 48:07 - Military discipline in art 51:10 - Pressure to be great 52:36 - Find your reality 56:26 - Fiction is truth 1:03:56 - Shame and creativity 1:06:55 - Steve's goal 1:08:37 - Find meaning
Wonderful interview…” follow your calling”. Thank you
@BradCarr_
3 ай бұрын
Hey! Thanks for listening
Awesome channel, deep conversation- one of my mentors
@BradCarr_
9 ай бұрын
thanks for sharing! glad you enjoy it
Brad, thank you for such a great interview! I'm a huge fan of Steven Pressfeild and these were some really refreshing questions. Looking forward to following you.
@BradCarr_
Жыл бұрын
Sam Gardner, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Resistance like everything can be for good or ill, we have to use our knowledge of experience (empirical) and in built knowledge (spiritual) to discern which it is. Evil can appear to look like Good until you observe the detail (modus operandi and vivendi) but ultimately one is wholly creative and the other wholly destructive. It is the combination of what we observe (our five senses) and what our intuition ("sixth sense") tells us that leads us to make the correct decisions and choices. It is very dangerous to let just the head or the heart make these on their own.
@BradCarr_
Жыл бұрын
@Steve Crane, thanks for the thoughtful approach to managing resistance and discerning the truth. It's so helpful to turn this idea over from other angles
"All you can do is deliver the load"
....really great questions....
@BradCarr_
Жыл бұрын
thanks for noticing! was there one that stood out to you?
@naetek6430
Жыл бұрын
@@BradCarr_ It seemed almost all of them...and The guest definitely confirm it...
19:30
Mystical muse is horse crap