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Name: Turning Pro
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Author: Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield

Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

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What’s in it for me? Learn how to become the professional creative you dream of being.

Do you have a creative passion but can’t get it up and running? Does something always trip you up every time you try to write, paint, or brainstorm that start-up idea? Maybe you tell yourself the timing isn’t right and there’s just too much else on your plate today. But the next day, there’s another obstacle that you can’t seem to overcome.

If this sounds familiar, it means you’re stuck as an amateur, unable to break the patterns that stop you from becoming a professional. But don’t despair: just because you’re an amateur now, doesn’t mean you can’t take control of your life and make that breakthrough you desperately need.

Becoming a professional is less about talent and more about changing your mindset. These blinks will show you what you need to do to achieve your creative goals.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how your day job contains secret meaning;
the deep fear that’s stopping you from becoming your true self; and
what every artist can learn from horse racing.

Turning pro is a conscious decision.

Steven Pressfield didn’t become a professional writer by landing a three-book publishing deal or selling a movie script for a six-figure sum. The author became a pro by moving to a new house. After resisting his desire to write for years, he packed up his cat Mo and his typewriter and left New York behind.

Pressfield spent the next year writing a novel in a little town in northern California. He’d decided to finish his manuscript no matter what. Living on just $25 a week, he cut himself off from all distractions: TV, newspapers, music, and sex. His manuscript didn’t end up getting published but the year wasn’t a waste. It taught him to face his fears and get on with his work.

The key message here is: Turning pro is a conscious decision.

Before moving to New York, the author worked as a truck driver. This decision, just like his later one to move to California, was a conscious one. He saw truck drivers as courageous, interesting and powerful – qualities he wanted to embody. Having fallen in love with Kerouac’s novel On the Road as a teen, he had a romantic view of long-haul drives, blowing through small towns. He thought truck driving would give him freedom. But he wasn’t free. He was running away.

For Pressfield, truck driving was a job he pursued to avoid his calling – or, a shadow career. Shadow careers might look and feel similar to your true career. But they have one distinct difference – they’re risk-free. That means, if you fail, the consequences are minimal.

Shadow careers are typically a metaphor for what you should be doing, which makes them a useful way to gain insight. For instance, you might be doing a PhD in Elizabethan studies while repressing your desire to become a playwright. Or you might be assisting an inventor in her research instead of doing the inventing yourself.

People choose shadow careers due to fear. Turning pro means giving up things that make you feel comfortable, like your self-identity, how you spend your time, and the company you keep. It also means undertaking a grueling interior journey, where you face your demons every day. This makes it confronting and painful.

But the pay-off is enormous. By turning pro, you learn how to embrace who you truly are despite the fear and live the life you were meant to live. All you need to do is make that choice.

To turn pro, you must resist addiction.

The author has an insanely talented friend – a piano prodigy who takes prize-winning photographs. She’s also a near-world-class swimmer. But despite this, she’s far from reaching her full potential. Instead of developing her talents, she’s preoccupied with having tempestuous affairs, which makes her life miserable.

You don’t have to be a prodigy to be like the author’s friend. Pursuing a calling is risky because it exposes you to potential rejection and failure. To mask those uncomfortable feelings, many people develop addictions – like obsessively falling in love or spending hours on social media. And feeding those addictions stops you from becoming a pro.

Turning pro means facing your fears.

Have you heard the expression “to shoot yourself in the foot”? It means to deliberately harm yourself. This saying arose from trench warfare in World War I. Soldiers would deliberately shoot themselves in a debilitating but non-fatal way, so they’d be excused from duty. That way, they could avoid facing the horrors that awaited them in no-man’s-land.

Amateurs have something in common with those soldiers. Their addictive habits cause self-inflicted wounds that prevent them from working. When you let fly a metaphorical bullet into your foot, you no longer have to face your calling on the battlefield.

Your lowest point will bring your breakthrough.

Before he dedicated himself to writing, the author lived in New York, driving cabs. One night, alone in his sublet apartment, he realized he’d consistently been taking himself down phony pathways that led away from his authentic self. And he could no longer justify this behavior.

So, in a state of pure dread, he dug out his neglected Smith-Corona typewriter and punched out sentences for two hours straight. It was torture, and what he wrote was so bad that he tossed it straight into the trashcan. But something significant had shifted inside him. Flooded with energy, he headed to the kitchen to wash a ten-day pile of dirty dishes. He realized he was whistling. Somehow, he knew he was going to be okay.

Turning pro reshapes every aspect of your life.

Nothing terrifies an amateur quite like silence and solitude. When you’re still and quiet, the little voice inside you – the one that knows the truth – can finally speak up. That’s why you’re constantly scanning Twitter or checking your inbox for new messages. You’re seeking out distraction to drown out that voice at any cost. It’s even costing you your authentic self.

As an amateur, you’re terrified of that little voice because deep down, you already know what it wants to say. Listening to it will mean acknowledging that you should be writing, or launching that start-up, or building that free clinic for people in need. But since that’ll cause major upheaval in your life, you close off your ears.

Turning pro changes your mindset.

During the time Picasso lived and worked in Paris, the gallerist who sold his paintings visited his studio to view his latest collection. He was thrilled with the series of portraits, which had taken Picasso months to paint. But while the gallerist was praising Picasso for his genius, the artist grabbed a palette knife and slashed the paintings, one by one.

As a pro, you must demand the highest standards from yourself. It takes a great deal of courage to judge your work honestly, especially in the face of praise. Picasso could have easily let the gallerist sell his paintings, but that would have been selling out. Staying true to your vision is what counts when you’re a pro, and that changes how you see your work.

To be a pro, you must have a practice.

In monasteries across the globe, the monks rise together, don their robes, and gather to meditate at the exact same time. This happens every morning, without exception. The energy generated by this commitment and dedication is a powerful force. It creates order in the natural chaos of the universe. And in that space of order, inspiration and enlightenment come.

Just like these monks, when you choose to go pro you have to commit to a daily routine – a practice. This practice will have to be rigorous – otherwise, you won’t be able to master your skill of choice. And more often than not it will connect you more deeply to a greater power – be it a god, inspiration, or the self.

A pro trusts the mystery.

Following a strict practice contradicts the romanticized notion of the impulsive artist, consumed by inspiration. Many amateurs fear that discipline will kill creative magic. But that isn’t true. Just consider the monk whose ultimate goal is to reach enlightenment. He won’t find it while scaling up a Himalayan mountain. He’ll find it in the stillness of meditation.

The discipline of a practice will help you overcome the inner obstacles that keep you from work, like procrastination, perfectionism, and self-doubt. By staying committed to your practice, you can press on in spite of your fears. And by having faith that your muse will show up when you set to work, you’ll consistently make progress.

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Turning Pro (2012) sheds a light on why so many aspiring creatives and entrepreneurs fail to make their dreams a reality. It also explains how, by making a conscious decision to pursue your goals and reconfiguring your life, you can finally gain traction and embrace your true calling.

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To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

—Steven Pressfield

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Über den Autor

Steven Pressfield is the author of numerous novels, as well as non-fiction books about creativity like The War of Art and Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t. Before Pressfield committed to his true calling as a writer, he had many other careers, including truck driver, bartender, and oilfield roustabout.

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