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#642: Steven Pressfield on Going from Truck Driver to Bestselling Novelist, Overcoming Self-Sabotage, Building Momentum, Dancing with the Muse, Turning Pro, and Letting Your Underground River Flow

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Underground River of Creativity

"I like the theory. And I mean, it does make sense to me with so many things," he says. "If you suppress them in attempt to compartmentalize them or block them, divert them, they squeeze out in where they can squeeze out the edges in very pathological ways." He adds that a passage through the wilderness starts with a denial of some creative thing or moral or ethical or expression of love That usually we deny it out of fear or because our conditioning tells us this is foolish and self-indulgent. So we don't do it, but we pay the price.

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