Pressfield’s answer: Life is long.

They always tell you life is short, but actually life is long.

If we find ourselves making mistakes or we haven’t yet found our real calling, don’t drive yourself crazy with that. There’s plenty of time...Look at me—it took me forever to break through in anything and I still feel that I’ve got a whole other lifet

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I feel guilty when I take a couple months off from publishing, but there were times where he abandoned writing for years and lived out of his car picking up random jobs just to survive. Hearing that episode again was a good reminder to not drive myself crazy and instead practice patience.