Habits and Addictions — Excerpt 2 from Steven Pressfield’s “Turning Pro”
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🗓️ 25 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Back in October, Ryan presented the first of four audiobook excerpts from Steven Pressfield’s “Turning Pro.” In this excerpt Steven talks about identifying and battling the habits and addictions that hold us back, the fears of the amateur, the simplicity of life once one turns pro, and his own story of turning pro. Published by Recorded Books on Brilliance Audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic |
| 0:13.3 | texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom |
| 0:21.6 | that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend. |
| 0:25.6 | We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that |
| 0:30.2 | you're able to apply it to your actual life. |
| 0:33.7 | Thank you for listening. |
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| 0:47.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:51.1 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | When I sat down to start Discipline as Destiny, I followed a routine I do with all of my books, |
| 1:01.6 | which is I read something from Stephen Pressfield. |
| 1:06.6 | Actually, I think for discipline, I read Turning Pro, for justice, I read, put your |
| 1:12.6 | ass where your heart wants to be. |
| 1:14.0 | Whenever I am starting a project, I read something from Stephen Pressfield because he's |
| 1:19.9 | maybe the greatest writer on how to be a professional, how to be great at winning these |
| 1:27.5 | inter-creative battles. |
| 1:30.7 | When I saw him last, I asked if we could excerpt a couple pieces from his wonderful audiobooks |
| 1:36.2 | and he's been kind enough to let us do that. |
| 1:38.9 | Today's episode is part two in some excerpts from the wonderful Turning Pro. |
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