390: Steven Pressfield—Pulling the Pin

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Steven Pressfield, the two-time New York Times Bestselling author of The War of Art, Gates of Fire, and The Legend of Bagger Vance, discusses how to listen to your muse while ignoring your Resistance, why he carries a Smith Corona typewriter but doesn't actually use it, and what he learned from driving a truck, picking fruit, and writing advertising copy. His newest book is a memoir titled Govt Cheese.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's me, Mike Rowe and episode 390.
0:09.0	Is that right, Chuck?
0:10.0	390?
0:11.0	390, yeah.
0:12.0	Look at this go, man.
0:13.0	So like 10 away from 400 if I'm doing the math, right?
0:16.0	I think you nailed it.
0:17.0	Okay.
0:18.0	This one is called Pulling the Pin, and my guest is Stephen Pressfield. Well, we love him,
0:23.4	but we're not alone. This guy is, well, he's certainly a legend in the publishing world,
0:28.8	and he's become a kind of Sven Gali, I think, for a lot of writers. The only other writer I know
0:35.1	who has paid as much dues as him or more as my mom.
0:40.0	Right, right.
0:41.0	Yeah, she's putting the hours for sure.
0:42.9	Stephen has written, I mean, if you know him, it could be from Turning Pro or the artist's journey or the tides of war or the legend of bagger Vance.
0:52.3	Remember the movie with Matt Damon?
0:56.2	He wrote that book upon which the movie was based talk about paying your dues i think he's 80 81 years old at this point
1:02.1	he's worked in advertising he was a truck driver oh and an orchard worker yeah picked fruit yeah
1:09.7	dozens of dirty jobs.
1:12.1	He kind of came over the transom as a result of a relationship with Scott Mann.
1:17.0	These two guys know each other.
1:18.2	And of course, you know Scott, if you listen to the podcast.
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