STEVEN PRESSFIELD | A Lifetime, One Hour at a Time (Ep. 333)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Steven Pressfield back to the show. He is a bestselling author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays. His first book was The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was later turned into a movie and directed by Robert Redford and starred Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon. His second book was Gates of Fire, which is about the Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae, and this book is on our list of the 100 Books Every Modern Christian Man Should Read list. He has also written A Man at Arms, The War of Art, Turning Pro, Do the Work, The Warrior Ethos, Tides of War, and over a dozen more. In this interview, we discuss what he thinks about all the prominent people that he’s inspired with his writings, why he self-published his latest non-fiction book, how to fight against Resistance, the difference between motivation and discipline, whether you should move in order to improve your output, his thoughts about God and the “spiritual realm”, why he turned to the King James Bible for comfort during a rough patch in his life, how we can reinforce ourselves when we want to be lazy, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:38.8	Hi guys, today we got a return guest to the show. His name is Steven Pressfield.
0:42.2	He is the author of historical fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays. His first book went super,
0:46.8	super mega viral. It was the Legend of Bagger Vance, which was later turned into a movie that was
0:51.0	directed by Robert Redford, and it starred Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon.
0:55.1	His second book was Gates of Fire, which is about the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopoli.
0:59.5	The book is on our list of 100 books every modern Christian man should read list. It is an
1:03.6	absolute classic, but those aren't his only classics. He has some other ones, a new classic that he
1:07.5	just added recently, which is a man at arms, but he also wrote The War of Art, Turning Pro,
1:12.0	Do the Work, The Warrior Ethos, Tides of War, and literally over a dozen other books. He's a
1:16.9	very, very prominent author. He's been on episodes 151 and 182 of this podcast. In this podcast,
1:22.2	we talk about a new book, a new nonfiction book that he has that really tries to encourage
1:26.5	guys to actually do the work. And I know he's written a book called Do the Work, but giving
1:30.8	guys a little bit more tangible knowledge in these bite-sized little chapters of how they can force
1:35.7	themselves to do these things. Because again, in this episode, we talk about the difference between
1:39.5	discipline and motivation. We talk about the muse, and we get into kind of a deep conversation.
1:44.5	I press them a few times on the muse and how he actually prays to the muse, and what does that
1:48.9	mean, especially within the context of a Judeo-Christian ethic or a Christian worldview that I have.
1:54.1	But we talk about so many amazing things in this particular interview. And the thing about his
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