Gates of Fire
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Steven Pressfield on Discovering Stoicism and Working Without Attachment
Podcast: The Daily StoicAnd then I have on my wall, I have the last page from the typewritten manuscript of Gates of Fire signed by the author. Yeah, I have a bunch of those little totems too, myself.
- Episode: Steven Pressfield on Discovering Stoicism and Working Without Attachment
Podcast: The Daily StoicDo you think about the spectrum of people who are able to enjoy 'Gates of Fire' or 'The War of Art'? You have people who have sold hundreds of millions of records that are fans of 'The War of Art', and people who are just thinking about starting.
- Episode: Steven Pressfield on Discovering Stoicism and Working Without Attachment
Podcast: The Daily StoicAround that time, I would have also read 'Gates of Fire'. I remember buying that on Amazon.
- Episode: Steven Pressfield on Discovering Stoicism and Working Without Attachment
Podcast: The Daily StoicNot whatsoever, because if you think about, like, the second book was Gates of Fire for me. And as I was writing it, I thought, who's going to possibly be interested in this?
- Episode: Rick Rubin on The Creative Act, Overcoming Ego, and Enjoying the Process
Podcast: The Daily StoicWhat’s amazing about a book like Gates of Fire is that it's only 20 or 30 years old, but it feels like it's a thousand years old. When somebody does something I guess—even the War of Art—but when somebody does something that is both timely but also has no place in time, that’s something incredible about what art can do.
- Episode: Steven Pressfield on Overcoming Resistance and the Value of Discipline
Podcast: The Daily StoicYou know, and I think that where my attention goes when I'm really doing it right, like if I'm writing a book like Gates of Fire or something like that, my attention goes to that world that is being created kind of through me, but not by me in the moment, you know?
- Episode: Steven Pressfield on Overcoming Resistance and the Value of Discipline
Podcast: The Daily StoicAs always, I love all your work—'The War of Art,' 'The Artist's Journey,' 'Gates of Fire'—I've loved all your stuff.
- Episode: CrossFit Athlete Brooke Wells on Reaching Your Potential
Podcast: The Daily StoicNo, I haven't, but you would love The War of Art or his novel Gates of Fire—that's amazing. In one of them, a philosopher is talking to Alexander the Great, and Alexander says, 'I have conquered the world; what have you ever done?'