The act of not pursuing your dream, of not following where your soul wants to take you,

is not without cost. You don't get away free from that. That force that's inside you that wants to be born

and wants you to give birth to it, If you don't give birth to it,

it doesn't just go away. It goes into other channels and those channels are negative channels.

And it will start to work against you and be worse and worse and worse. It's not like just a

luxury to live out your dream or your calling.

It's an imperative.

Ladies and gentlemen, that nugget of wisdom was from the one and only Stephen Presfield.

Now, if you are like me, then the book, The War of Art was transformational.

It is sold hundreds of thousands of copies, if not millions.

And when I read that book, it's a book about resistance for those of us, those creators and entrepreneurs, those of us who are trying to make something really special out of this one

precious life. It spoke to me as if he was in the room, in my head, actually,

whispering in my ear, all the deep, dark secrets. And what we get in today's episode with

the legendary Stephen Presfield is a lifetime of writing this kind of work. Not only has he

written The War of Art, but other books like The Artist's

Journey, Turning Pro, Nobody wants to read your shit and other tough love truths. He is special in

his ability to capture the voices that we creators and entrepreneurs have in our heads.

He puts it out there in books.

Again, he sold millions of copies of these books in such a way that not only are they

relatable, but it helps us overcome some of these stuff.

Because when we know that other people are experiencing a lot of the same challenges

that we are, it makes us feel less alone, makes us feel more human and also that we can do it.

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