To expand the conversation for those of us who don’t necessarily share Pressfield’s spiritual beliefs, perhaps it’s worth considering that “success” is a story and perhaps that our merit as an artist isn’t tied to an outcome or is conditional. That it is somehow granted by some external entity. Certainly it’s worth delineating our sense of worthiness as we move and act in the capacity as artists from a conditionality. To not be “granted” the “success” or the brilliant idea may not be evidence of any wrongdoing, lack or defectiveness in our art, in our practice. After all, yes the 1st person to crossed the finish line gets the gold medal but it doesn’t equate to the other 7 people being any less worthy athletes. There are factors and forces at play that we may not even know to factor or have any influence of. Put your ass where your heart is..if not for ourselves then as a potential contribution to others. To humbly bring them our gifts, our delight. Think about your favourite work of art and the pleasure it has brought you. Imagine if the artist(s) has decided not to make that work way back when..then that pleasure, inspiration, joy, solace, excitement that we experience from encountering and engaging with the work won’t even happen. I look forward to being the lucky audience to more great and wonderful art of all sorts!
Love it. Thanks for this. Completely agree. Success is a construct that we can assign any meaning. It's worth examining and challenging the traditional sense of success, if it's not true for us. thx for tuning in!
I'm dyslexic, dyscalculic, autistic, dyspraxia, ADHD. I couldn't read music while learning the drums and I refuse to give up. I learned to listen for rythim and the cymbals so I could repeat. I learn the guitar and piano. Again that pesky dyslexia came and I overcame using my ears. I couldn't catch a ball so I praticed and I played video games until I got good fine motor skills. I have better social skills than most NT people. I just have creativity and refuse to give up because I'm ungodly stubborn and I don't have it in me to give up. I was born disadventaged in life, I'm stubborn. I'm so stubborn that it was difficult for me to admit that I couldn't beat addiction on me own. If you have to work hard at something, then you become at that thing.
Thank You soo much Chase for interviewing Mr. Pressfield! I LOVED THIS 💚. I learned soo much and it was RIGHT on TIME!!!!! Thank You Mr. Pressfield 💚 My Best, Max
Mr Pressfield is a Hero capital H ❤❤🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Thank-you so much for asking the question about his childhood and your answer about the visual art RESISTANCE yes equipment yes no formal "training " yes yes yes NONSENSE 🙍🏾♀️ Plain to see since you spelled it out so succinctly. Thanks again
Total Gem of a podcast, it takes having experienced ones own struggle over many years to really grasp the refinement and depth of the wisdom spoken in this short few minutes. Thanks guys, much appreciated.
Chase, I hope you have Jed Mercurio on your show. He was a British medical doctor who replied to an ad in a medical journal from TV producers looking for doctors to give input on a medical drama they were developing. Technical advisors. Mercurio has a scientific and technical background. He ended up writing CARDIAC ARREST and the award winning shows LINE OF DUTY and BODYGUARD, starring Richard Madden. Mercurio insists there is no such thing as talent, that there is only hard work. That armatures wait for inspiration while pros are committed to perspiration. It would be great to see you interview him.
I really enjoyed this show, a lot of great thoughts, and I totally agree with all Mr, Pressfield said he’s a great author I’m currently on reading his amazing book the war of art and i will buy his other great book turning pro I heard good things about it too
Talent does matter. The combination of passion, grit, practice, and determination can compensate for certain deficits, but add talent to that recipe and you have, in time, a master. I've seen people with interest and (some) motivation in fine art either quit or permanently plateau. They may continue to paint or draw and even develop to some degree, but they don't produce inspired work or make quantum leaps because they lack talent--spatial intelligence, rhythm, color sense, knack for composition, accurate draftsmanship, or simply the ability to observe and perceive their subject in an artistic way. And if they take a class, they don't always learn something that translates into their practice when they go out into the field. Maybe they don't find the right teacher for them, but they don't improve. Another talent is the capacity for long-term focus and concentration. This takes a lot of mental energy, whether one is writing in a cafe or painting at the harbor. I think this capacity is related to intelligence, and not everyone has that kind of energy.
seems to me that talent to you is a biological advantage or a lack of disadvantages such as poor vision and the such. those things aren't that important outside of physical intensive work and even then it can be remedied with modern medicine. and if not, well they can still draw even if they're visually impaired or outright blind, blind artist are a thing after all. as for mental disadvantages, something for them as well. Vincent Van Gogh was one such mentally disadvantage individual, and he still made a name for himself. as for intelligence, i don't understand where you find the correlation between it and focus. and it really boils down to what your definition of intelligence is.
This guy is like George Carlin's motivational brother. George tells you that and why your life sucks, this guy tells you how to fix it. Maybe it's just the voice... Love the vibe though
3:42 = 3 6's = 666 interesting ? on da clock ⏰️ 😂 kali porney blue man crew demon ? 😈 back ground set bird = what price R u willing 2 go to to accomplish 💙 our worldly desires. Interesting Thoth ❤ 😒 🤔
To expand the conversation for those of us who don’t necessarily share Pressfield’s spiritual beliefs, perhaps it’s worth considering that “success” is a story and perhaps that our merit as an artist isn’t tied to an outcome or is conditional. That it is somehow granted by some external entity. Certainly it’s worth delineating our sense of worthiness as we move and act in the capacity as artists from a conditionality.
To not be “granted” the “success” or the brilliant idea may not be evidence of any wrongdoing, lack or defectiveness in our art, in our practice. After all, yes the 1st person to crossed the finish line gets the gold medal but it doesn’t equate to the other 7 people being any less worthy athletes. There are factors and forces at play that we may not even know to factor or have any influence of.
Put your ass where your heart is..if not for ourselves then as a potential contribution to others. To humbly bring them our gifts, our delight. Think about your favourite work of art and the pleasure it has brought you. Imagine if the artist(s) has decided not to make that work way back when..then that pleasure, inspiration, joy, solace, excitement that we experience from encountering and engaging with the work won’t even happen. I look forward to being the lucky audience to more great and wonderful art of all sorts!
Love it. Thanks for this. Completely agree. Success is a construct that we can assign any meaning. It's worth examining and challenging the traditional sense of success, if it's not true for us. thx for tuning in!
Or maybe they just need to put out their work in the first place ;) #8years
Beautifully summarized 🎉
I'm dyslexic, dyscalculic, autistic, dyspraxia, ADHD. I couldn't read music while learning the drums and I refuse to give up. I learned to listen for rythim and the cymbals so I could repeat. I learn the guitar and piano. Again that pesky dyslexia came and I overcame using my ears. I couldn't catch a ball so I praticed and I played video games until I got good fine motor skills. I have better social skills than most NT people. I just have creativity and refuse to give up because I'm ungodly stubborn and I don't have it in me to give up. I was born disadventaged in life, I'm stubborn. I'm so stubborn that it was difficult for me to admit that I couldn't beat addiction on me own. If you have to work hard at something, then you become at that thing.
If you have to work hard at something then you become that thing ❤❤❤❤❤ BRILLIANT
I clicked immediately 😂 thank you for this Chase!
Thanks for watching 🙌🏼
Thank You soo much Chase for interviewing Mr. Pressfield! I LOVED THIS 💚. I learned soo much and it was RIGHT on TIME!!!!!
Thank You Mr. Pressfield 💚
My Best,
Max
Glad to hear it. Thx for tuning in Max!
This guy knows how to ask questions and it made the conversation so interesting.
appreciate that. Thanks! 🙏🏼
Mr Pressfield is a Hero capital H ❤❤🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank-you so much for asking the question about his childhood and your answer about the visual art RESISTANCE yes equipment yes no formal "training " yes yes yes NONSENSE 🙍🏾♀️ Plain to see since you spelled it out so succinctly. Thanks again
❤ WOW = SO MUCH VALUE IN THIS CONVERSATION ...10 OUT OF 10 !!!!
Total Gem of a podcast, it takes having experienced ones own struggle over many years to really grasp the refinement and depth of the wisdom spoken in this short few minutes. Thanks guys, much appreciated.
hey Fynn, thanks for tuning in
Chase, I hope you have Jed Mercurio on your show. He was a British medical doctor who replied to an ad in a medical journal from TV producers looking for doctors to give input on a medical drama they were developing. Technical advisors.
Mercurio has a scientific and technical background. He ended up writing CARDIAC ARREST and the award winning shows LINE OF DUTY and BODYGUARD, starring Richard Madden. Mercurio insists there is no such thing as talent, that there is only hard work. That armatures wait for inspiration while pros are committed to perspiration.
It would be great to see you interview him.
Pressfield stay bussin fr fr no cap
5 minutes into it and loving it already
Wonderful talk! My copy of his latest book should arrive in a few days.
Thanks
Another classic🎬🎬🎬
I really enjoyed this show, a lot of great thoughts, and I totally agree with all Mr, Pressfield said he’s a great author I’m currently on reading his amazing book the war of art and i will buy his other great book turning pro I heard good things about it too
Yes!
❤’d this … hung onto every word … ThanQ!
glad it resonated! thx for watching
Talent does matter. The combination of passion, grit, practice, and determination can compensate for certain deficits, but add talent to that recipe and you have, in time, a master. I've seen people with interest and (some) motivation in fine art either quit or permanently plateau. They may continue to paint or draw and even develop to some degree, but they don't produce inspired work or make quantum leaps because they lack talent--spatial intelligence, rhythm, color sense, knack for composition, accurate draftsmanship, or simply the ability to observe and perceive their subject in an artistic way. And if they take a class, they don't always learn something that translates into their practice when they go out into the field. Maybe they don't find the right teacher for them, but they don't improve.
Another talent is the capacity for long-term focus and concentration. This takes a lot of mental energy, whether one is writing in a cafe or painting at the harbor. I think this capacity is related to intelligence, and not everyone has that kind of energy.
seems to me that talent to you is a biological advantage or a lack of disadvantages such as poor vision and the such.
those things aren't that important outside of physical intensive work and even then it can be remedied with modern medicine. and if not, well they can still draw even if they're visually impaired or outright blind, blind artist are a thing after all. as for mental disadvantages, something for them as well. Vincent Van Gogh was one such mentally disadvantage individual, and he still made a name for himself.
as for intelligence, i don't understand where you find the correlation between it and focus. and it really boils down to what your definition of intelligence is.
This guy is like George Carlin's motivational brother. George tells you that and why your life sucks, this guy tells you how to fix it. Maybe it's just the voice... Love the vibe though
haha. love that
1:03:37 Steven Pressfield shares Important words of caution to authors: There should never be a "between books".
💯 powerful!
3:42 = 3 6's = 666 interesting ? on da clock ⏰️ 😂 kali porney blue man crew demon ? 😈 back ground set bird = what price R u willing 2 go to to accomplish 💙 our worldly desires. Interesting Thoth ❤ 😒 🤔
Terrible interview, Steven Pressfield its a phenomenal writer and just "wing" the interview is very upsetting.