Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work (Paperback)

from Teykem

"The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present."

from traumleben

I respect Pressfield's openness in sharing the struggles of his own journey from amateur to pro. It's easy to look at Bagger Vance or Gates of Fire and assume they were easily borne of a gifted writer; he certainly is, but it wasn't without struggle. His text is a simple how-to with regard to hel...

from jsabrina

There is some very good content in this book -- but I resented paying $10 for far less than an actual 148 pages worth of content. This reads like a long address to a class of creative graduates. It's wise. It's insightful. It holds up a mirror to some of the most self-destructive forces that imp...

from madepercy

This is the third in Pressfield's "success manual" genre I have read. As with The War of Art and Do the Work, I have gained much from reading this book, in particular, ideas around space, time, practice, and working for the sake of the work. Pressfield says that turning pro means that your life b...