The Spiritual Nature of Creative Work: Rituals, Resistance, & the Muse w/ Steven Pressfield

I sat on my book idea for two years but couldn’t write a single word, and it took a mushroom ceremony to show me why. Steven Pressfield is the author behind The War of Art, Gates of Fire, and The Legend of Bagger Vance. After spending the past few years writing my own first book, I had a lot of questions for him about what actually gets in the way of creative work. In this episode, we talk about the difference between writing for ego and writing in service of something larger. I told him about the fear of success…