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Turning Pro
- Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work
- Narrated by: Steven Pressfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Anil K. Agrawal
- 2020-04-23
An eye opener
Listened to the entire book in two spells. Loved the content and the engaging delivery. Learned a lot; gained enormous wisdom. Its an eye opener, a whack on the side of the head.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-11-26
Thought provoking
Turning Pro isn’t a revolutionary concept but Steven speaks in layman’s terms and weaves a narrative that makes you think about how you are living. I enjoyed the internal dialogue it created in me and the fact that it got me to evaluate my actions, habits and processes I currently employ. Very enjoyable outcome from a short time commitment.
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- Kier
- 2019-08-01
Practical, powerful and an easy listen.
Essential for anyone who's serious about their career, purpose or staying focused. Especially, when times are tough for you.
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- Christopher
- 2023-06-27
Life changing, thank you!
I got the audiobook and listened to the entire thing. Absolutely what I needed to hear. Thank you, Sir.
Off to turn Pro.
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- Quants guy
- 2021-03-26
Inspirational!
Steven is amazing- very inspirational. Loved how you finished the last chapter! You will see my book next year - thank you for inspiring!
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- Joe Hayes
- 2022-04-02
Good for anyone struggling with procrastination
Provides a great framework for aspiring artists, authors and entrepreneurs to use in building a disciplined mindset and eliminating negative habits. The people giving it bad reviews sound like losers who haven't accomplished anything in life and hearing this just made them realize how much of their life they've actually wasted getting drunk and cosuming media. Morons should go read a "how to write for dummies" book or something. Because apparently being told they have to actually put in work offends them. Go have another drink with your loser friends and exchange excuses for why you can't get your life together and why it's not your fault.
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- Leah
- 2020-12-13
Magnifiscent. A manual for anyone turning pro.
Concise. Steven is like a peraobal coach calling you out on your B.S. I always have better days professionally & creatively when I listen to a few words of this in the morning. Will read many more times. Thank you Steven Pressfield! 🙏
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- James Brown
- 2020-02-29
Raw and true
This book while short is a great "wake up" kind of advice to get you to get up and become PRO.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-09-03
Timely Wisdom
I have listened to all of Stevens books about living as an artist, writer, musician or entrepreneur; but not limited to those professions. I enjoy his been there, done that matter of factness that acknowledges we all behave the same way with different players. We cycle through these periods until we get to the point where we s**t or get off the pot. I’m at that crossroad currently and welcome his push off the fence.
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- Danny
- 2024-03-04
Captivating and Inspiring
Our minds are powerful, but can only think within the confines of our own vocabulary. This book offers an abstract, yet compelling story on the universe we exist within- its rules, the forces which work against us, and our tendency to work against ourselves. It offers the language necessary to give back power to the artists, the creatives, and the passionate people who have a desire to pursue a life which may defy conventional norms: and this book does so in a way that feels more impactful, inspiring, and most importantly, possible. In the pursuit of any endeavour worth attaining, there are forces which work against you, whether your own, imposed barriers/beliefs- or society imposing limitations on you with the underlying desire to make you bury your purpose and conform to a life of unfulfilling mediocrity. This book is an opportunity to build a mindset to push past your self-perceived limits, and reimagine what your life can become. We can only go as far as we can dream, and this author most definitely made my dreams more vibrant and vivid. I absolutely loved it. And also have enjoyed other titles from this author. Cannot recommend this enough to anyone seeking a more personal and intimate approach to writing !!!
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