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The follow-up to his bestseller 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 PressfieldTURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY.When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that 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 interior 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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Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire, Tides of War, The Afghan Campaign, The Profession, The Warrior Ethos, Do the Work, and The War of Art among others. He lives in Los Angeles. In 2008, he was made an honorary citizen by the city of Sparta in Greece.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Irish Entertainment LLC; unknown edition (May 31, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1936891034
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Steven Pressfield is the author of The War of Art which has sold over a millions copies globally and been translated into multiple languages. He is a master of historical fiction with Gates of Fire being on the required reading list at West Point and the the recommended reading list of the Joint Chiefs. His other books include A Man at Arms, Turning Pro, Do the Work, The Artist's Journey, Tides of War, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Last of the Amazons, Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, Killing Rommel, The Profession, The Lion's Gate, The Warrior Ethos, The Authentic Swing, An American Jew, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, and The Knowledge.

His debut novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance was over 30 years in the making. He hasn't stopped writing since.

Steve lives and writes in California. You can following him on IG @steven_pressfield. Sign up for his weekly writing newsletter at stevenpressfield.com

"It is one thing to study war, and another to live the warrior's life."

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Two key tenets for days when Resistance is really strong: 1. Take what you can get and stay patient. The defense may crack late in the game. 2. Play for tomorrow. Our role on tough-nut days is to maintain our composure and keep chipping away. We're pros. We're not amateurs. We have patience. We can handle adversity. Tomorrow the defense will give us more, and tomorrow we'll take it. There's a third tenet that underlies the first two: 3. We're in this for the long haul. Our work is a practice. One bad day is nothing to us. Ten bad days are nothing.

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It is full of useful insights. He is straight foward with his writing. I loved it, and highly recommend it!

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A symphony for the creative soul - must read

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Turning Pro: The symphony that creative soul is hungry for. So, so good!

By creative, we don't mean just the arts. By creative, we mean anyone who sets out to create a life outside of the normal path, without a map or guidebook. Turning Pro is about taking the amateur self, looking it in the eye, and deciding that enough is enough. We are now doing this and we're doing it damn well too. We are reaching the upper realms not through addiction or avoidance or distractions, but through Labor and Love.

I re-read Do The Work before reading Turning Pro to experience the combined effect. Do The Work speaks at length to the internal enemy, the Resistance. Turning Pro is focused more on the artist vs. the addict, the pro vs. the amateur, and how the answer to all our internal suffering and struggles in that path is to turn pro. Pressfield's own life story fills a few of his short two-page chapters, revealing that he has lived everything he preaches in this book.

One concept that will stick with me, I imagine, is that of "the shadow career", or even, "the shadow life". It's not our real career, our real work, our real life, the one we were truly meant to live. It is close to it but we're fooling ourselves, and fear and resistance help us keep up with the fooling. Say you do admin work for a startup company instead of starting your own, you are the assistant to the singer instead of taking your voice lessons, you are the editor for some publishing house instead of responding to your own calling to write. And these are just the obvious shadow careers. There are many more subtle ones that would take a harder look to identify. How do you KNOW you are living a shadow career or a shadow life? You just know. You know by how you feel at the end of the day or night. You know by how satisfied or empty you feel at the end of a work project. You just know, even if you refuse to admit it, deep down, you just know.

It is one of the best short reads on the human condition, the internal conflict and suffering, and the art of liberation through the act of turning pro. It reads like a symphony; Pressfield's writing is poetic, punchy, and powerful. What I'm beyond impressed with is the succinctness of this book and its immeasurable power. I can see how the author must have wanted to pull his hair out to get the book down to this size, and yet, it is complete. It is no less and no more than what it needs to be to say exactly what it wants to say.

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(This sentence made me cry, not sure why) => What we get when we turn pro is, we find our power.

Turning pro is free, but it's not without cost. When we turn pro, we give up a life with which we may have become extremely comfortable. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own. Turning pro is free but it's not easy. You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. The professional has professional habits.

When we turn pro, we stop running from our fears. We turn around and we face them.

Next up: War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Stay tuned for the review.

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Turning Pro From a Mystical, even Ethereal Perspective not for Everyone

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I found the author's approach to the subject of transitioning from amateur to professional to be harder to internalize than actually turning pro. Other author, although tackling a critical issue that every artist must face at some point in their artistic journey, relied way too much on metaphor than simple straight talk. At times his metaphorical approached proved quite effective in conveying certain stated concepts. At other times his incessant use of the metaphorical never quite took off. I will say, positively speaking however, that I greatly appreciated his very concise way of discussing the process of turning pro, if but to relieve my taxed mind in having to decipher the insufferable metaphors. All in all, however, the author provided some precious gems on the subject that made completing the book well worth it.

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Carol Weshenfelder

Now all I have to do is follow his advice.

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I like to this book because it's speaks to my heart. My heart is deceitful and fearful, but it knows what its

calling is. I would recommend it to artist friends, writers, and musicians, because those are the circles that I am invested in. It reminds me that God, who is my strength, is also my muse. I have succeeded before, and I will do so again.

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WomanOfDevon

A load of narcissistic clap trap

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This book is short (in hindsight that's a good thing). It has so many great reviews but I really don't understand why. The takeaway from it is basically show up, do the graft and act like whatever it is that you want to do (writing, art, acting etc) is your profession even if you are still doing a different job. Even if you "fail" ie don't get published, don't get cast etc....keep going.
There, I just saved you £5.

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Helena Holrick

get your creative mojo back with this book

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I am a fan of Stephen's books. This one goes to the heart of resistance, and sort of manages to bypass any excuses you may have put in place for not taking your 'art' seriously (when I say this, I mean any endeavour you are pursuing). This book is about attitude, about shifting into a different perspective and committing. For those who are reticent about really digging in and getting their story or product out in the world... for the procrastinators, the hesitators and the non-completers, this will help to 'gear up'.

There's a poetry to this book. And an emphatic call that is actually compelling. It will help contextualise the excuses, will let you see how you've been talking yourself out of doing what you long to do. So if you're frustrated by your own inactivity or the nagging call of creative energy that you just don't act on, get this. It should do the trick of inspiring you to just crack on with it. And if it doesn't, then maybe you are still content to just 'dabble'.

Enjoy.

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Sacha Black

Writer rocket fuel

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I swear Steven pressfield is Socrates incarnate. There is something about the way he shapes sentences on the page that attacks the mushy, dark and confused parts of my mind and realigns them. His books are always a spark, a flame and fuel to my motivation. Not because he's soft and lovingly caresses the artist ego into working again. But because he punches you in the tit and tells you to get on with it. One of my favourite parts is when he says he praises us for hitting rock bottom... because at rock bottom there is only ourselves and he's right!

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Beth Duffus

I quite liked it but felt Pressfield didn't really nail the nature ...

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This book was exactly what I needed, as I had tumbled into a self-pitying, creative slump. It was precisely the wake-up call I needed, and it has had an immediate impact on my creative energy. I read The War on Art a few years ago. I quite liked it but felt Pressfield didn't really nail the nature of resistance; he just seemed to be saying that you should grit your teeth and get on with it. Turning Pro is more nuanced, in spite of its crisp, short sections. Like a lot of books such as this, the impact will depend on the receptivity of the reader. I had been searching for something to help shake me out of the doldrums for quite some time. This book certainly hit that mark for me.

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Mrs Steph Caswell

An Inspiring Read

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For all those who know they have a true calling, be it writing, painting, parenthood or other, this book will change your mindset from that of the amateur to that of the pro. I'm a huge fan of The War of Art and read it once a year to remind myself of its principles. Now I can add this to my annual reads, to remind myself of what I can become if I turn up and do the work, if I turn pro. A great read-grab your copy without hesitation.

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