The Profile Dossier: Steven Pressfield, the author helping you defeat ‘resistance’
The Profile Dossier: Steven Pressfield, the author helping you defeat ‘resistance’“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance."
Steven Pressfield wrote for 27 years before he published his first novel at age 52. During that time, he worked 21 different jobs in 11 different states. “I taught school, I drove tractor-trailers, I worked in advertising and as a screenwriter in Hollywood, I worked on offshore oil rigs, I picked fruit as a migrant worker,” he writes. Though he had a pass… Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Profile to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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