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The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. "You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind."--Steven PressfieldTURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY.When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own.TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE.The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro.WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO.What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
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Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire, Tides of War, The Afghan Campaign, The Profession, The Warrior Ethos, Do the Work, and The War of Art among others. He lives in Los Angeles. In 2008, he was made an honorary citizen by the city of Sparta in Greece.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Irish Entertainment LLC (May 31, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1936891034
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1936891030
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Steven Pressfield is the author of The War of Art which has sold over a millions copies globally and been translated into multiple languages. He is a master of historical fiction with Gates of Fire being on the required reading list at West Point and the the recommended reading list of the Joint Chiefs. His other books include A Man at Arms, Turning Pro, Do the Work, The Artist's Journey, Tides of War, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Last of the Amazons, Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, Killing Rommel, The Profession, The Lion's Gate, The Warrior Ethos, The Authentic Swing, An American Jew, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, and The Knowledge.

His debut novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance was over 30 years in the making. He hasn't stopped writing since.

Steve lives and writes in California. You can following him on IG @steven_pressfield. Sign up for his weekly writing newsletter at stevenpressfield.com

"It is one thing to study war, and another to live the warrior's life."

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Glenn Hager
5.0 out of 5 stars A Kick in the Ass
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2013
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I am just now sending a book to the editor that should have been published by last October. There are some reasons for the delay, like, travel and other pressing events. But the main reason that it is not published is me. Honestly, sometimes I think it is crap. Sometimes, I think it is a vain exercise. Sometimes, I think I need to review it again for the tenth or twentieth time. Sometimes, I am afraid of how people will respond when they read it. Sometimes, I think I should change the title or something else about the book as I endlessly obsess over trying to get it just right. Turning Pro was written for people like me.

Turning Pro is a book to encourage people to act on what is in their heart. It has special significance for people who want to write or create something as it delves deep within the psyche of what causes us to sabotage what is probably our single most important contribution to the world.

Living as "amateurs" is our way of running away from our true selves. It causes us to develop a shadow career that keeps us from being our truest selves. Pressfield writes, "Both addict and artist are dealing are dealing with the same material, the pain of being human and the struggle against self-sabotage." (p.22). "What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still small voice inside our heads. At last, we find the courage to find the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along was our passion, our calling, our destiny." (p.70)

A good portion of the book unwraps the habits and attitudes of the "professional," like, "The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it." (p.99).

Steven Pressfield is an interesting guy who has done a little bit of everything during his life, from fruit picking, to truck driving, to writing screen plays (The Legend of Bagger Vance) and books. Turning Pro is a small book with a lot of white space on some pages, but it is not its word count that makes it valuable; it is that fact this guy gets inside our head (at least mine). He exposes what holds us back and encourages in the hard work that will move us forward to being our truest, best self, moving us from to dreaming to creating.

His companion book, The War of Art, sets the context for this one and is equally insightful and inspiring.
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Farnoosh Brock
5.0 out of 5 stars A symphony for the creative soul - must read
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Turning Pro: The symphony that creative soul is hungry for. So, so good!

By creative, we don't mean just the arts. By creative, we mean anyone who sets out to create a life outside of the normal path, without a map or guidebook. Turning Pro is about taking the amateur self, looking it in the eye, and deciding that enough is enough. We are now doing this and we're doing it damn well too. We are reaching the upper realms not through addiction or avoidance or distractions, but through Labor and Love.

I re-read Do The Work before reading Turning Pro to experience the combined effect. Do The Work speaks at length to the internal enemy, the Resistance. Turning Pro is focused more on the artist vs. the addict, the pro vs. the amateur, and how the answer to all our internal suffering and struggles in that path is to turn pro. Pressfield's own life story fills a few of his short two-page chapters, revealing that he has lived everything he preaches in this book.

One concept that will stick with me, I imagine, is that of "the shadow career", or even, "the shadow life". It's not our real career, our real work, our real life, the one we were truly meant to live. It is close to it but we're fooling ourselves, and fear and resistance help us keep up with the fooling. Say you do admin work for a startup company instead of starting your own, you are the assistant to the singer instead of taking your voice lessons, you are the editor for some publishing house instead of responding to your own calling to write. And these are just the obvious shadow careers. There are many more subtle ones that would take a harder look to identify. How do you KNOW you are living a shadow career or a shadow life? You just know. You know by how you feel at the end of the day or night. You know by how satisfied or empty you feel at the end of a work project. You just know, even if you refuse to admit it, deep down, you just know.

It is one of the best short reads on the human condition, the internal conflict and suffering, and the art of liberation through the act of turning pro. It reads like a symphony; Pressfield's writing is poetic, punchy, and powerful. What I'm beyond impressed with is the succinctness of this book and its immeasurable power. I can see how the author must have wanted to pull his hair out to get the book down to this size, and yet, it is complete. It is no less and no more than what it needs to be to say exactly what it wants to say.

Some of my favorite parts, in quotes:

(This sentence made me cry, not sure why) => What we get when we turn pro is, we find our power.

Turning pro is free, but it's not without cost. When we turn pro, we give up a life with which we may have become extremely comfortable. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own. Turning pro is free but it's not easy. You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. The professional has professional habits.

When we turn pro, we stop running from our fears. We turn around and we face them.

Next up: War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Stay tuned for the review.
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BlacklionCTA
4.0 out of 5 stars Fast Read - May Be Uncomfortable
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2023
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Turning Pro is an exceptionally well authored book that may hold up a mirror to our lives and make us uncomfortable with the reflection - good. I saw a lot of myself and my life in this work, both good and bad. I am better for reading it.

His writing style is succinct and easily approachable. Toward the end it goes a little off topic into mysticism, but there is still much value here.
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Trisha
5.0 out of 5 stars Super inspiring
Reviewed in Canada on October 29, 2021
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I am so happy I bought this book on a whim. It has opened my eyes to what it is that I have been doing wrong in my pursuit of creating a meaningful life. A quick and easy read, but packed with crazy amounts of inspiration and a-ha moments!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The book spoke to me
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Yes, it did. Ego vs Self battle is what’s in your way of becoming a Pro, Be it a Professional artist, actor, or entrepreneur.
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Leandro Piccini
5.0 out of 5 stars Uma ótima complementação para A Guerra da Arte
Reviewed in Brazil on December 21, 2020
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Segundo livro que leio do autor e posso dizer que é um escritor fantástico, bem simples direto ao ponto e com orientações práticas.

Neste livro o autor procura deixar claro um conceito que iniciou em seu outro livro "A guerra da arte" a ideia de se tornar um Profissional. Segundo ele ao se tornar um profissional você consegue realizar seu trabalho de uma forma completa e sem ficar preso a procrastinação ou preguiça. Ao longo do livro o autor expões diversas ideias práticas para você se tornar um profissional.

Recomendo este livro principalmente para trabalhadores do conhecimento, escritores, pois mostra os passos necessários para que sua arte chegue ao mundo. Também recomendo para todos aqueles que querem desenvolver sua carreira e ter mais produtividade no dia a dia.
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Heytem Boumaza
5.0 out of 5 stars Mind blowing
Reviewed in France on July 18, 2021
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Edith
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente, no es sólo motivación sino introspección
Reviewed in Mexico on March 6, 2020
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Excelente libro para cualquiera que quiere encontrarse a sí mismo a través de la batalla de su trabajo (ya sean artistas, científicos, músicos, cualquier profesión en la que hay que darle algo al mundo --idealmente, todas). Muy recomendable, si realmente quieres hacer lo que sea por cambiar y volverte pro.
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