ATG 88: Overcome Resistance and Embrace Restraint: The secret formula to achieving your dreams with THE Steven Pressfield

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Why is following a dream so hard sometimes? You know what you want, and you know what you need to do to achieve it, so why hasn’t it happened yet?

I’m thrilled to have my long-time mentor, Steven Pressfield, join me for an episode all about doing the thing we all want - to live out our dreams. Steven is the bestselling author of countless screenplays, novels, and nonfiction books, including Gates of Fire, Turning Pro, and one of my all-time favorites, The War of Art. In this episode, we talk about taking consistent steps toward your dream, quieting distractions, Obi-Wan Kenobi moments, King Kong, and so much more!

Steven Pressfield Book List:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes The Gold Podcast, the best place in the
0:12.9	entire world, including all of Canada.
0:15.5	To learn how to build new thoughts, new actions, and new results, I'm your host John
0:18.7	Acab, and today I'm joined by Stephen Pressfield, who's that I'm so glad you asked.
0:24.4	Stephen Pressfield is the best-selling author of fiction and nonfiction.
0:28.0	He wrote The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gets a Fire, Tides of War, A Man in Arms, as well
0:33.4	as The Classics on Creativity, The War of Art, Turning Pro, and Do the Work.
0:38.8	His Wednesday column on www.stevenpressfield.com is among most popular writing blogs online,
0:46.3	and he's one of my heroes.
0:48.2	But bottom line, one of my heroes.
0:50.4	I've given away his book, The War of Art, more than any other book in my entire life,
0:56.4	other than my own.
0:57.4	I'm very generous with my own books.
0:58.5	I keep my own books.
0:59.5	I have one with me usually, any time I'm on an airport, and if somebody comes up, I'm
1:04.2	like, oh, here's the latest copy of Soundtrack.
1:06.4	So I give my own books around a lot.
1:09.0	But The War of Art allowed me to finish my first book.
1:13.8	If you are a creative artist at any point, really bigger than that.
1:18.2	If you are someone who ever feels what he calls resistance to do something good, it can
1:23.5	be lose some weight, it can be get your finances in order, it can be, you know, declutter
1:29.1	and addict.
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