Podcast: The Daily Stoic
Episode: Steven Pressfield on Discovering Stoicism and Working Without Attachment
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Daily Dad
Buy on Amazon"Yes, um, yeah, when I was doing The Daily Dad, I went to my publisher with it maybe four or five years ago."
The War of Art
Buy on Amazon"Because I tend to reread The War of Art or Turning Pro or one of your books when I'm about to start a project. It's just like a nice sort of headspace to get into."
Gates of Fire
Buy on Amazon"And 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."
The Laws of Human Nature
Buy on Amazon"Just as The Laws of Human Nature should not be—The Laws of Human Nature is a 600-page book about, you know, everything that makes humans both rational and irrational; that should not be a commercially viable book, you know? Especially for someone who, again, it’s not like he’s a—you know, Adrian would turn it down."
Gates of Fire
Buy on Amazon"Do 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."
The War of Art
Buy on Amazon"Do 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."
Gates of Fire
Buy on Amazon"Around that time, I would have also read 'Gates of Fire'. I remember buying that on Amazon."
A Farewell to Arms
Buy on Amazon"Take, for instance, the opening of "A Farewell to Arms" where he describes the dust on the trees that summer. It resonates throughout the story and comes back at the end; that's a poetic genius that AI simply cannot replicate."
Gates of Fire
Buy on Amazon"Not 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?"