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Steven Pressfield's struggles to make a living as an author, including the period when he was homeless and living out of the back of his car, are detailed in his 2002 book The War of Art. Pressfield's first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was loosely based on the Bhagavad Gita, was published in 1995, and was made into a 2000 film of the same name directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon. His second novel, Gates of Fire (1998), is about the Spartans and the battle at Thermopylae. It is taught at the U.S. Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico.

00:00 - Introduction

00:24 - How to beat self doubt?

05:42 - All is Lost moments

11:29 - Separate doubt from reality

16:36 - Transcend pain and fear

24:19 - Do the Muses drive artists?

26:15 - Mentors and life experience

32:58 - Exile is the human condition

37:37 - Failure and truck driving

39:44 - Developing a craft

43:10 - Afghanistan never changes

48:07 - Military discipline in art

51:10 - Pressure to be great

52:36 - Find your reality

56:26 - Fiction is truth

1:03:56 - Shame and creativity

1:06:55 - Steve's goal

1:08:37 - Find meaning

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