"If you have discipline and no talent, you're way better off than if you have giant talent and no discipline. The more that you love something, the more resistance you're going to feel, and therefore t..."

"and plateaued? Ah, that's, that's a great question because I think that I hate to say this, but you know, two of my best things were like right out of the box. The Legend of Bagger Vance and Gates of ..."

"it's going to be bad. It's just has to be bad. Um. It's like Jackson and Pollock and that's yeah, just like splattering stuff. Another analogy that I use, uh, I wrote a book a few years ago about the ..."

"Uh, I used to sit down with just pages of Henry Miller or Hemingway and just copy it on my old typewriter. And I think it's sort of the same as, they say that, uh, Picasso or any artist would go to th..."

"to emulate? You know, it's a great question. I'm not even sure. It was just something I just loved the way they wrote, but there's a difference between just reading it closely and actually writing it ..."

"Legend of Berger Vance? No. Well, you should read it. Okay. You know, it's about golf and it's about this. Exactly. Yeah. You know. Why, why golf for your first book? Uh, I mean, I grew up in the game..."

"that apply to a story or a narrative apply to nonfiction, you know, that every story has to have a hero, everything has to have a villain, everything has to have, has to be about something, has to hav..."

"great question. I had about a ten year career as a bad screenwriter. Okay. About half of that I worked with, uh, an older established writer where I was kind of the junior member of a team. And, so, t..."

"that. How does the editing change as you go through more and more cycles? Do you feel like you get almost different knives, like you start with an axe, or like I'm gonna get rid of this and then towar..."

"word discipline factor into your work? I mean, it's everything, you know, it's everything. If you're going to write, you know, this is another thing I would say if I had a one day class. Think about i..."

"of... Who is the villain? Is it a person? Is it a thing? Is it something in somebody's mind? Is it a societal? So the villain in the War of Art is the Resistance. Exactly. Okay. Yeah. Even in a non fi..."

"need to express yourself? Is it a desire to tell stories? Is it a love for the craft? Is it a vision that you had as a kid and you were like, I want to be that person. What is it? That's another great..."

"Of course, yeah, he had laws of power and everything. I mean, his story is very much like mine, you know? Where he worked a million crazy jobs, you know? And, uh, tried to write various things. Tried ..."

"um, I've stolen this from him, where somehow he compiled quotations from various, um, writers and scientists saying no, and what they said. And, uh, one of the best ones was from Charles Dickens. Wher..."

"So here we are now. Tell me about the 60 scenes method. That's again, it's kind of a screenwriting way of doing it. I mean, a movie is about 60 scenes, and so it can be on index cards, 3x5 cards, and ..."

"style in your writing? It's interesting. That's another really good question. Each book, I think, dictates, has its own style. And it dictates that style to you, the writer. And it's your job to find ..."

"story is about learning, I think, right? The hero has to go from point A to point Z, you know? And suffering produces learning. Unfortunately. So, you know. I mean, that's one of my mantras is make yo..."

"Well, I want to close by talking about this book, The Daily Pressfield. There's a few things that I think are really interesting here. The first is, this is a book that you can keep right next to your..."