The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Steven Pressfieldamazon.com
The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The artist is a role ordained by Creation. Even
The Muse tells us who we really are and what our subject really is. No wonder these feel like surprises. They are voices that we never knew we had, rooms and wings in our house that we never knew existed.
THE ARTIST LEARNS HOW TO HANDLE PANIC
THE ARTIST LEARNS HOW TO HANDLE REJECTION
Need for external (third-party) validation.
HOW DO YOU KNOW? * * * The answer is: You decide. You decide, and you prove your decision by action.
PUT YOUR ASS WHERE YOUR HEART WANTS TO BE
They perform this simple but miraculous act a thousand, ten thousand times a day. They enter the Second World and come back to the First with something that had never existed in the First World before. A machine can't do that. A supercomputer packed with the most powerful AI system can't do that. In all of Creation, only two creatures can do that.
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