The Daily Pressfield
A Teaching a Day, From the Author of The War of Art

I like his other books, but this format doesn't work for his writing. Some days are teases for the next, others autobiography, others straight copies from his other books, some even felt like a show-off. I usually don't mind this kind of writing, yet in a book meant to be taken in at a slow daily pa......more

To start off, I genuinely love Steven Pressfield's work. The War of Art changed how I approach many things in my life with the realisation of the existence of 'The Resistance'. Many of his other books (including some of his novels) really struck a chord with me, including his biography Govt. Cheese,......more

Had I not learned about Pressfield's concept of 'Resistance' from his earlier books, I wouldn't have been able to complete some truly grinding, boring, bureaucratic paperwork I've had to do in the course of my life. That is a fact. I owe it to him. That said, this book is so heavily geared toward wr......more

Steven Pressfield is a great author who will always get five stars from me—I get that much out of his writing. However, the format of this book doesn't work as well as I had hoped and there are a lot of reworked/reused segments from previous books and his blog, so know that going in. If you're a fan,......more

Works on multiple levels. As a personal story of Pressfield’s professional life. As a concrete, how-to instructions on writing. As a general philosophy of living. “Every story must be about something. It must have a theme. “......more