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Turning Pro

Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

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Turning Pro

By: Steven Pressfield
Narrated by: Steven Pressfield
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The follow-up to his best-seller 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, author)

Turning pro is free, but it's not easy. When we turn pro, we give up a life with which we may have become extremely comfortable. We give up a self 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 internal 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.

©2012 Steven Pressfield (P)2012 Steven Pressfield Career Success Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Personal Success
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loved it. very quick read but with some real gems in it. very encouraging for those wanting to walk a path less travelled.

great little book of inspiration

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Great book, great narrator, learn a lot about yourself and choose your own way of life...

very inspiring

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Ignore the random gender nouns of the book and absorb it's metaphors and you'll be on your way to turning pro.

If you finish listening again, listen to it again!

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No fuss, no unnecessary fill, no wasting 13 hours. Straight to the point, powerful words to stimulate creativity and action

Brilliant

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it give great insight about where you are as an artist... very to the point, very valuable...

great book...

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I love this book zero BS, straight to the point and great information. I will come back and listen to it again to get more of this book.

Easy to understand and entertain. If you don't know why you can't be where you want, this honest book will tell you why.

A necessary Slap in the Face

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Steven doesn't waste words, like a good writer should. He gets to the point and doesn't mince his words to help with the important work of becoming Pro in our actions and mind to let the Self shine. Thank you Steven!

Brilliant, punchy and practical

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Although a fairly short work, Steven Pressfield gives such a powerful message to those who are ready to hear it. This work perfectly depicts the character traits of a person who is a professional in pursuit of their passion. If you have a passion this will most likely identify where you are falling short. If you don't have a passion, it will make no sense at all. So valuable.

Such a powerful message

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Well done Steven. A great story, well read, Put so many things in perspective. Clear steps. I really enjoyed it.

Perspective

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Steven Pressfield has made a profound impact in my life by sharing his work. Always with to this and the war of art for inspiration.

Inspiring kick up the butt!

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