Steven Pressfield

The Art of War meets "The Artist's Way" in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind.

Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The War of Art

Chronicles the battle of three hundred Spartan warriors against a huge force of Persian soldiers in 480 B.C. against the background of life in ancient Sparta and its extraordinary culture.

An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Gates of Fire

The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. "You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind." --Steven Pressfield TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY. When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own. TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE. The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro. WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO. What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.

Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

Turning Pro

Are you losing your war of art? Are you being defeated by a tendency to procrastination, self-doubt, fear, distraction, and perfectionism? Are you self-sabotaging your loftiest artistic entrepreneurial dreams?The antidote is in nine words:PUT YOUR ASS WHERE YOUR HEART WANTS TO BECan you shift your artistic identity--your "ass"--from the shallow, fearful, superficial Ego to the wise, loving fearless Self? Can you commit to your dream for the long haul and for keeps? In this book bestselling author Steven Pressfield delivers the tough-love inspiration to help you make this life-altering transformation.

Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

a novel

The Afghan campaign

a memoir

Govt Cheese

Yaratma Savasi

People who have read my books, particularly "The War of Art" and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey of a particular solitary guy, wracked by guilt and riven by self-doubt, as he struggles toward his destiny as a writer. But they have only the scantiest conception of the particulars of that journey. These particulars, I'm hoping, may be of use to others as they wrestle with their own version of that same odyssey. So let me try to strip it down. Let me tell the parts I normally leave out.

A Memoir

"This book is designed to coach you through a project (a book, a ballet, a new business venture, a philanthropic enterprise) from conception to finished product, seeing it from the point of view of Resistance."--Page [1].

Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way

Do the Work

There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T. Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional. From Chapter Four: “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with ev­ery sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?

Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

Victor Juhasz

A Teaching a Day from the Author of the War of Art

Daily Pressfield

A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War

Tides of War

a thriller

The profession

نبرد هنرمند

Anemoi polemou

The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. "You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind."--Steven PressfieldTURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY.When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own.TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE.The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro.WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO.What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.

Master storyteller and bestselling author Steven Pressfield returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex. The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory; Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units, supported by the satellite and drone power of their Chinese allies, have emerged from their enclaves in Tehran and are sweeping south attempting to recapture the resource rich territory stolen from them, in their view, by Lukoil, BP, and ExxonMobil and their privately-funded armies. Everywhere, military force is for hire. Oil companies, multi-national corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches. Even nation states enlist mercenary forces to suppress internal insurrections, hunt terrorists, and do the black bag jobs necessary to maintain the new New World Order. Force Insertion is the world's merc monopoly. Its leader is the disgraced former United States Marine General James Salter, stripped of his command by the president for nuclear saber-rattling with the Chinese and banished to the Far East. A grandmaster military and political strategist, Salter plans to take vengeance on those responsible for his exile and then come home...as Commander in Chief. The only man who can stop him is Gilbert "Gent" Gentilhomme, Salter's most loyal foot soldier, who launches a desperate mission to take out his mentor and save the United States from self destruction. Infused with a staggering breadth of research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish all of Pressfield’s fiction, The Profession is that rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as much as it entertains.

A Novel

The Profession

An unputdownable and incredibly evocative military novel full of thrilling battle scenes and flesh and blood characters from Steven Pressfield, author of The Sunday Times Bestseller Gates of Fire. "A terrific read...this is historical fiction at its very best." -- JAMES HOLLAND "A splendid tour-de-force...it should not be missed" -- WASHINGTON POST "Both a captivating history lesson and rousing guts-n-glory saga" -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Compelling...the narrative is a page turner" -- ***** Reader review "Mr Pressfield is a true craftsman in the best possible way. You LIVE the story while he is telling it" -- ***** Reader review "Simply a brilliant read" -- ***** Reader review **************************************************** NORTH AFRICA, 1942. AN ELITE BRITISH ARMY UNIT IS ON A DEADLY MISSION. Autumn, 1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance... Out of this, the British hatch a desperate plan - to send a small, highly mobile fighting force behind enemy lines to strike a blow that will stop Rommel's army in its tracks. It is to be called the Long Range Desert Group and its exploits will become the stuff of legend. Based on real events, Steven Pressfield's bold novel brings to pulse-racing life the ingenuity and daring of this maverick commando unit - a disparate, dedicated 'band of brothers' who sacrificed so much for the sake of freedom...

An action-packed, tense and thrilling wartime adventure guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat

Killing Rommel

"Il lavoro creativo ... è un regalo al mondo e ad ogni essere che lo abita. Non toglierci il tuo contributo. Mostraci quello che hai in serbo per noi." Steven PressfieldHAI MAI: Sognato di scrivere un capolavoro?Rimpianto di non aver terminato i tuoi dipinti, poesie, o sceneggiature? Desiderato di fondare un'azienda, o un ente di beneficienza?Voluto poter cominciare una dieta o fare esercizio a partire da oggi? Aspirato un giorno a correre una maratona?SE HAI RISPOSTO 'SI' AD ALMENO UNA DI QUESTE DOMANDE, ALLORA DEVI LEGGERE...Attraverso questa esaminazione prepotentemente diretta e informale degli ostacoli interiori al successo, l'autore di bestseller Steven Pressfield dimostra come identificare, sconfiggere e sbloccare le barriere interiori attorno alla creatività. La Guerra Dell'Arte è un calcio nel sedere ispira- to, divertente e mirato, che qualsiasi artista, visionario o imprenditore troverà assolutamente galvanizzante."Incredibilmente convincente e intelligente nel descrivere la psicologia della creatività." -Jay McInerney"Al termine della lettura de La Guerra dell'Arte, sentii dentro di me crescere positività e calma. So che posso vincere questa guerra. E se posso farcela io, puoi farcela anche tu."-dalla prefazione di Robert McKee, maestro della sceneggiatura

Jeffrey A. Ewing

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