Steven Pressfield is the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, Killing Rommel, The Profession, The Lion's Gate, The War of Art, Turning Pro, Do the Work, The Warrior Ethos, The Authentic Swing, An American Jew, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, The Knowledge, and The Artist's Journey.
His debut novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, was adapted for screen. A film of the same title was released in 2000, directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon, Will Smith and Charlize Theron.
His father was in the Navy, and he was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943. Since graduating from Duke University in 1965, he has been a U.S. Marine, an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, tractor-trailer driver, bartender, oilfield roustabout, attendant in a mental hospital and screenwriter.
His struggles to earn a living as a writer (it took seventeen years to get the first paycheck) are detailed in The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Authentic Swing, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, and The Knowledge.
There's a recurring character in his books, named Telamon, a mercenary of ancient days. Telamon doesn't say much. He rarely gets hurt or wounded. And he never seems to age. His view of the profession of arms is a lot like Pressfield's conception of art and the artist:
"It is one thing to study war, and another to live the warrior's life."
Here’s the trick: We’re never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls forth infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us. Resistance knows th...
評分any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance. ========== The paradox seems...
評分 評分我开车时一边听这书一边想:"Pressfield真牛逼,这扩写能力不是盖的,从短短的一句话——Do the work,扩写了整整一本书。" 而且写的还真TM好,没有婆婆妈妈重复多遍的句子,从各种角度分析问题,很多观点都很inspiring. 虽然书的主要观点我已经很熟悉了(follow了Tim Ferriss六...
評分很勵誌的書,小小一本書,語言非常精煉有意思,讓人讀的很開心。
评分藝術的戰爭 戰爭的藝術 軟技能作者力推 ^_^
评分藝術的戰爭 戰爭的藝術 軟技能作者力推 ^_^
评分很勵誌的書,小小一本書,語言非常精煉有意思,讓人讀的很開心。
评分藝術的戰爭 戰爭的藝術 軟技能作者力推 ^_^
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