668. The Spiritual Nature of Creative Work: Rituals, Resistance, & the Muse w/ Steven Pressfield
About this episode
Luke Storey interviews Steven Pressfield about the spiritual aspects of creative work and the challenges faced by writers.
There’s a hidden force that is hurting your creative work. Steven Pressfield is the author behind The War of Art, Gates of Fire, and The Legend of Bagger Vance. After spending the past few years writing my own first book, I had a lot of questions for him about what actually gets in the way of creative work. In this episode, we talk about the difference between writing for ego and writing in service of something larger. I told him about the fear of success that crept in once my manuscript got close to being done, the dread of asking people for endorsements, and the strange grief of finishing a project you've lived inside for years. He shared things I didn't expect. The War of Art was a 10-year slow burn. He's been "terrified every minute" of his career and never gave in. He believes resistance is a real force with one job: to stop you. And he writes ninety pages into his next book before the current one ships. Read: The Arcadian: A Novel by Steven Pressfield: https://amzn.to/4ufrFhS You'll learn: [00:00] Introduction [14:49] Two kinds of loneliness, and how spiritual grounding resolves both [20:29] Why writing alone doesn't feel lonely, and how the muse shows up in the creative…
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