Steven Pressfield was one of the very first people I interviewed as part of this series, so it’s a pleasure to finally release it “from the vault”.  I’ve even had people emailing me asking when he was going to make an appearance – yep, he’s that good!

Steven is a writer.  He’s most commonly a historical military novelist, and his best known book of that genre is Gates of Fire.  But I know him for what was a detour off the path for him, The War of Art.  This is a fabulous book, nominally about the discipline it takes to be a writer but I think really applicable to what it takes to do Great Work.

In The War of Art Steven talks about what the difference is in those that approach their work as a professional and those that approach it as an amateur, and addresses ways of overcoming resistance – that familiar tug on the shirt well-known to anyone setting off on a Great Work journey.

In this interview we hear a little of Steven’s journey to become a successful novelist, explore how to overcome fear and resistance – and you find out just what he’d like to do to overnight successes…

Listen to my interview with Steven Pressfield

The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long.
You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.

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Tags: Author, creativity, Fear, Focus, Resistance, Yes and No Question

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