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Turning pro tap your inner power and create your life's work

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 a...

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Main Author: Pressfield, Steven
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Black Irish Entertainment, c2012.
Subjects:
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Creative thinking.
Resistance (Psychoanalysis)
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Pressfield, Steven.
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Summary: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 survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro. WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO: What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
Physical Description:132 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9781936891030 (pbk)
1936891034 (pbk)
Author Notes:Author Steven Pressfield was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in September 1943. He graduated from Duke University in 1965 and joined the Marine Corps. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a copy writer, taxi driver, bartender, tractor-trailer driver, fruit picker, and worked on oil rigs. He then moved to California and began writing screenplays. In 2000, his debut novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, was made into a movie starring Matt Damon and Will Smith. He primarily writes military historical fiction set in classical antiquity. Most of his novels are told from the first-person perspective of the main character.

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