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Life As Constant Battle
- Steven Pressfield views life and creative work as a battle against internal forces like laziness and perfectionism.
- He connects the virtues required for writing to those of a warrior: patience, courage, endurance, and respect for the enemy.
Why Ancient Greece Resonates
- Pressfield prefers ancient Greece because its sources present clear-eyed views of human nature without modern ideological overlays.
- He praises Greek prose (Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch) for clarity that uplifts the reader.
Dynamous: The Will To Win
- Dynamous roughly means a masculine drive or will to win akin to eros and divine force.
- Pressfield uses Greek concepts to frame virtues central to his novels and themes.