Name: Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work
ISBN: 9781936891030

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Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

Steven Pressfield

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The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. "You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind."--Steven PressfieldTURNING 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.

Book Details

Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Publish Date: May 31st, 2012
Pages: 148
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.34in - 0.37lb
EAN: 9781936891030
Categories: • Creativity• Personal Growth - General• Creative Ability

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About the Author

Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire, Tides of War, The Afghan Campaign, The Profession, The Warrior Ethos, Do the Work, and The War of Art among others. He lives in Los Angeles. In 2008, he was made an honorary citizen by the city of Sparta in Greece.

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If you're an entrepreneur or striving to be one, you should read both of these books. In this exact order. 👉 The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. 👉 Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield. Will not explain.

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@SouthSideWeekly @HydeParkHerald @WriterAlejandra @adam_przybyl @daniesanders20 @Jillian_Melero She recommends a book called "Talk to Me" by Dean Nelson but others are focused on just getting into the craft of interviewing. Other books she'd recommend are by Steven Pressfield. They include "The War of Art" and "Turning Pro" #MasterJourno #ChiJournos

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read this week: TURNING PRO by @SPressfield (second reread in a month) and THE MIND OF THE MAKER by Dorothy L. Sayers (relating the Christian Trinity to the 3 co-equal aspects of the creative process) #FridayReads

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