Tribal Engagement Tutorial: Mental Models
By Steven Pressfield | Published: January 30, 2010
Having your head in the game requires accepting that your perception of reality might not be correct.
Sun Tzu wrote: (more…)
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Very good article. Ambition is the double-edge sword that has driven me in my business life and the fuel...
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Robert McKee's "StoryLogue": A New Resource for Writers
By Steven Pressfield | Published: January 29, 2010
Full disclosure: Bob McKee and I are good friends (and his video interview with me is part of the package I’m about to tell you about.) So be aware please, the following does NOT pretend to be impartial or objective.
StoryLogue's Robert McKee
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THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Seth Godin
By Steven Pressfield | Published: January 26, 2010
This post will launch a new series we’re calling “The Creative Process.” Don’t worry, Writing Wednesday fans, it will not replace WW. We’re going to run “Creative Process” in a different space on the new site as soon as we get it up. The plan is to ask all kinds of interesting people “how they work.” What is their process? How do they get ideas–and what do they do with them once they’ve got ‘em? We’ll be grilling writers and artists, military people, entrepreneurs, maybe even an Afghan tribal chief or two.
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Tribal Engagement Tutorial: Introducing a New Series
By Steven Pressfield | Published: January 22, 2010
As the debate over what to do in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond continues, United States soldiers and Marines are on the ground fighting and sacrificing.
While this blog will continue focusing on that debate, the greater focus will be on providing soldiers and Marines practical, battle-tested information, which can help them on the ground. (more…)
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Wrestling an Alligator
By Steven Pressfield | Published: January 20, 2010
A friend asked me the other day how I experienced Resistance. What did the phenomenon feel like to me? I told him it was like wrestling an alligator.
"And I haven't even got a pen knife."
