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Steven Pressfield On Attaining Your Dreams, Pursuing Your Goals, Mastering Your Craft, & Defeating Resistance

The Bossticks

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How Much Does Your Ego Hold You Back?

Just writing, it's like not going into it with all these expectations and just writing that helps get over the ego hump. Or anything, meditation, martial arts, painting, any form of art. Designing motorcycles in your garage, anything like that, that takes you out of your ego because you have to focus so hard on whatever the thing is that you're doing. So I do think it's kind of natural. Like high school is sort of the ultimate kind of hierarchical ego world, right? Where everybody's kind of fragile. They haven't really found who they are yet or what they love. And then the internet becomes an extension of that. What other people think of me?

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