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The Book Pile

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This book says, if you want to be creative, treat your creativity a little more like a job! (Sadly wait for a machine to take your place. See your expectations dashed as the steady economic progress since WWII stagnates and you become the first family member in generations not to surpass their parents. It’s confusing advice.) Plus, Kellen decides whether or not to summon bears and Dave thanks this author for his own nickname. * To buy the book, The War of Art, or listen to it free on Audible ...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. I like to think this book was written by two people, one of them insane,

0:04.9

because some chapters give great tips on creativity, and other chapters say that if you have

0:09.1

cancer, it's because you didn't follow your dreams. The book is The War of Art by Ghalem and

0:14.1

Smeagel. I'm Kellett Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and I now hesitate to call myself an artist because of how easy it is to make fun of this guy who uses the word art a lot, but he also wrote The Legend of Bagger Vance.

0:35.4

Keep my name out your mouth. And I'm David Vance.

0:38.3

I read this book seven years ago and didn't think anything was weird about it.

0:42.3

So what was going on with me?

0:46.0

The War of Art is about why you should create every single day.

0:49.5

It's also about why Hitler did what he did because he was scared to paint.

0:55.0

And this is the book pile.

0:58.1

Seth Adam Smith says, which is obviously just another one of the many fake names we see in our reviews.

1:04.8

As amazing as this podcast is, I hesitated giving it a five-star review because it is missing one obvious thing.

1:10.4

When the intro music is

1:11.3

wrapping up and the last six notes are played they don't sing and this is the book pile

1:19.6

imagine listening to churchill give a speech and then being like but how are his vocal runs

1:27.2

we just recently went to cape Canaveral, speaking of JFK, and they replay his speech in all these different areas of the tour.

1:37.8

Part of President Kennedy's speech when he's saying, we choose to go to the moon.

1:42.2

It seems like he just forgot it or he wrote it like

1:45.8

two minutes ahead of time like he'd forgotten he had a big space speech that day. Because he says

1:51.8

verbatim, we choose to go to the moon and the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

1:59.5

And it's like, and the other things?

2:02.5

Was there like, did he have a filler note in there of like, come up with other things?

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