The following is a conversation with Stephen Pressfield, author of several powerful nonfiction

and historical fiction books, including The War of Art, a book that had a big impact on

my life and the life of millions of people whose passion is to create in art, science,

business, sport, and everywhere else.

I highly recommend it, and others of his books on this topic, including Turning Pro,

Do the Work, Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit, and The Warrior Ethos.

Also his book Gets a Fire about the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopoly, The Lionsgate,

Ties of War, and others are some of the best historical fiction novels ever written.

As some of you know, I don't shy away from taking on a big difficult challenge.

One of the hardest for me and for millions of others is the discipline of staring at

an empty page every day, pushing on to think deeply to create despite the millions of

excuses they filled ahead.

In his work, Stephen has articulated this struggle better than anyone I've ever read.

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This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.

I recently considered renaming this podcast, but decided against it.

AI is my passion.

In some sense, this podcast is not as much about AI, but more about a journey of an AI researcher

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