A couple of weeks ago, we did a post entitled “The 3 Brains of an Artist.” Here’s how we described Brain #2:

I was fifty-two years old when my first book was published. That’s after thirty years of trying, when I supported myself driving taxis and tractor-trailers, working in the oilfields and as a migrant laborer. I get asked now all the time, “How did you keep going all those years? Why didn’t you quit?”

I want to alert you guys to the first and only Writing Course I’ve ever taught. You may remember me talking about this last year. (We held the actual live event in September in Malibu, California.)

The first major item in our rebuild process has been completed—Debris Removal.

You and I as artists and writers have to have three brains.

This is the title of a chapter in The War of Art. But let me expand on it here, from recent experience …

My apologies, friends, for falling behind on these updates … a lot has been happening.

We just got it. Diana and me. Third time for me, second for her.

My friend Nick Murray is an advisor and guru to financial planners, i.e. the guys and gals who manage your investing portfolio if you’re lucky enough to have one.

If you and I had a great coach/mentor/spouse/guru who had our absolute best interests at heart, he or she would stand at our shoulder always … but particularly when we faced adversity (which means every day in almost every circumstance).