How to Overcome Inner Resistance | Steven Pressfield

For years when I was struggling and could never get it together, I realized that at one point that I was just thinking like an amateur. And that if I could flip a switch in my mind and think like a professional, that I I could overcome some of the things. A professional shows up every day. A professional stays on the job. all day or with the equivalent of of all day.

A professional, as I said this before, does not take success or failure personally. An amateur will, right? An amateur gets a bad review, bad response of this, and they just crap out. I don't want to do this anymore. A professional plays hurt.

Like if uh Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, you know, if they've tweaked a hamstring, they're out there, you know? They'll die before they'll get be taken off the court. Whereas an amateur when he or she confronts adversity will fold. Oh, it's too cold out, you know, I've got a, I got a, you know, I've got the flu, that kind of thing.

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