Turning Pro

Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Steven Pressfield

Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

The follow-up to his best-seller 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 Pressfield, author)

Turning pro is free, but it's not easy. When we turn pro, we give up a life with which we may have become extremely comfortable. We give up a self 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 internal 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.

©2012 Steven Pressfield (P)2012 Steven Pressfield

Absolute must for the creative.

I wish this was longer, but I’ll listen to it again. Brilliant. This is my second book by the author. Loved them both.

Good read

I enjoyed the book and found it both interesting and inspiring. I also like it when authors narrate their own books (for these types of books) so that is an added plus for me. That being said, considering the book is only 2 hours and 4 minutes, I thought $5 was too much to pay for it.

Excellent

One of the best self help books I have read. Full of wisdom and practical advice. Beautifully written. Read it. You'll be better for it.

Top notch!

An excellent book, required reading in my eyes for anybody pursuing the arts. A fantastic book to follow up the War Of Art with.

Love this author!

Another book I am certain I will read again. Steven Pressfield does not pull any punches and you’re thankful for it. Inspiring and eye opening; this book makes you aware of how powerful you really are.

Resistance is futile!

If you are looking for an exceedingly uplifting, powerful and entertaining roadmap to direct your inner self toward finally deciding to step up to the plate in the game that you are not only the referee, league manager, greatest fan and coach but also the star player, you'd best tighten your competitive resolve because you've found it.
This book is more refreshing than a breath of fresh air after a fart in a space suit, for lack of a better analogy. Steven Pressfield's ability to share his innermost drive and most vulnerable moments in his life so we can learn from his challenges is not only generous, but reflective of Steven's core honesty and personal wish for everyone who decides to turn pro to succeed on their own terms and become the "pro" they have designed for themselves.
Thank you Steven, for such a fantastic book. Thank you for sharing those moments.

Bought it last week and have listened 3 times.

I have listened to this three times so far and the title is absolutely perfect. This will become a once-a-month listen for me to keep me on track on my journey to becoming Pro. I also bought this for several of my friends.

best book I have read in a long time

A must read for artists, creators and entrepreneurs. Beautifully written, stunningly keen insights, and shocking self revelations as I read it. highly recommended. don't pass this one up!

It's MY Life in Words

This book, albeit very short was a punch in the gut and a kick in the pants. It spoke many truths and put words to what I've struggled to be able to verbalize. Whew... this came along at the exact right time in my life. Everything I've done the past 5 yrs has been leading up to this point. I'm ready now to do the BIGGER work and Turn Pro!!

Now I’ll drink wine

Always cool to grab a few things from a book. This was just 1 spot that was cool. Liquor hard on liver, beer you have to drink a bunch, but wine was best.