Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2021-12-20
Books mentioned on Prophets Walk Among Us: Stories From Our Listeners
Every week, I send a show out into the ether. But it’s you, the audience, who has taken what is nothing more than an inert digital file comprised of ones and zeroes—and turned it into so much more.
Mentioned: Finding Ultra by Rich Roll, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, and Do the Work! by Steven Pressfield.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Finding Ultra
Finding Ultra by Rich Roll is a memoir chronicling the author's personal struggles with alcoholism and his transformation through endurance sports.
Discussed“and it was right around this time in this kind of season in life that i was introduced actually to rich the ritual podcast and the memoir finding ultra it was extremely transformative to me it was kind of like getting to see the story that i want to have or the place that i want to be in three”
Where to get it
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's The War of Art serves as a profound guide for creatives, entrepreneurs, and thinkers seeking to understand and conquer the psychological barriers that hinder productivity and inspiration.
Recommended“i love him i listened to the war of art and i can honestly say that your conversation with him and his book has helped me finish writing my third book”
Where to get it
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Do the Work!
Steven Pressfield's Do the Work! serves as a practical, hard-hitting manual for overcoming creative blocks, self-sabotage, and the internal force of resistance.
Discussed“stephen pressfield i had read already do the work three times and already was so ants when i found out that rich was going to talk to him his reminder that resistance is a real force and that wow i just have to keep giving it the middle finger every day”
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