Steven Pressfield on Creating Work That Lasts
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🗓️ 15 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with his friend Steven Pressfield during an impromptu walk along Town Lake in downtown Austin, Texas. The two discuss the life experiences behind Steven’s new book Govt Cheese a memoir, the lessons that they've learned from their many mentors, the value of repurposing content, and more.
Steven Pressfield wrote for 27 years before he got his first novel published. During that time he worked 21 different jobs in eleven states. Steven taught school, drove tractor-trailers, worked in advertising and as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He worked on offshore oil rigs, and picked fruit as a migrant worker. His books include the best-stelling Turning Pro, The War of Art and Gates of Fire.
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| 0:50.8 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:56.8 | I think I told you this before, but I hate sitting in my chair. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm sitting in this chair recording this right now. |
| 1:03.0 | I sit in my chair when I write, but if I'm on the phone, I'm walking. |
| 1:07.0 | It's actually why I hate Zoom. |
| 1:08.6 | I hate that from the pandemic, everything is now, let's do a Zoom call and they expect |
| 1:12.9 | you to be in a thing with books behind you. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm like, no, I want to be moving, man, or I want to be driving. |
| 1:18.5 | I don't want the dead time of I could be doing some other thing that's good for me or crossing |
| 1:24.1 | something off the list. |
| 1:25.6 | Instead, I'm having to pretend like I care what the person I'm talking to about this administrative |
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