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Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Steven Pressfield (Author, Narrator), Black Irish Entertainment LLC (Publisher)

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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.

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Listening Length	2 hours and 4 minutes
Author	Steven Pressfield
Narrator	Steven Pressfield
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	26 July 2018
Publisher	Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07FWC146M
Best Sellers Rank	2,558 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 286 in Personal Success 472 in Motivational Self-Help (Books) 1,742 in Textbooks & Study Guides

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Hellè Weston

A potent, inspiring, honest and deep insight into what it takes to bring big ideas into reality.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 January 2019

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I love how succinctly this book describes what so many creatives struggle to understand and transcend (and many never do). This book cuts to the chase and does so with style, grace and depth. Steven's explanation of the connection between art and addiction is on point and brought me a greater sense of understanding and compassion for some of the addicts in my life who have so much talent, yet are stuck in self-destructive loops.

It has helped inspire me to show up for my purpose more consistently and embrace the long term game of being a creative for life.

I highly recommend this book to entrepreneurs, changemakers, truthseekers, artists and visionaries out there who battle with self-doubt and feel at times like throwing in the towel on their dreams. If you let it sink in and apply the practice, it will help you!

3 people found this helpful

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Thomas

To the point guidance for any creative

Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2019

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It may be my short attention span, but having short chapters that make a point without labouring it are a dream to me.
Pressfield makes the points that all creatives need to hear and also those aspiring to fulfill their creative potential as Pros.
Pursuing art as a pro is a lonely journey. It has to be in order to do your work and overcome your internal barriers. Nobody else can do it for you. This book like the War of Art is a must read for those wanting to make that leap.

2 people found this helpful

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hayden

INCREDIBLE

Reviewed in Australia on 12 January 2018

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Very few have the style, you do, Steven.

The way you communicate with me, the Reader, makes me think you lovingly (in your own definition) crafted these words perfectly for me.

This book alone helped me structure the (second) book I've been struggling to find direction for.

67,000+ words, 111 days of continuous writing inside the abyss and 400ish hours with Steven King like anti-holiday dedication have no been rewarded with light, love and now, a clear direction.

Love your work - thanks a mil.

Hayden

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Christine_of_Hexotica

beatnik-influenced style and attitude toward life that any Kerouac fan will enjoy, and his humility in his early failed efforts

Reviewed in Australia on 6 May 2016

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This is not a "how-to" book with an actionable plan or tips, it is a quiet meditation on that point when you need to decide to take yourself and your dreams more seriously and really begin to take the risks and the off-road path toward dedicating yourself to at least give those dreams a chance to take root. The author has a bohemian, beatnik-influenced style and attitude toward life that any Kerouac fan will enjoy, and his humility in his early failed efforts is very touching. It is a short but inspiring little book that will help motivate a dreamer to become a doer. I liked it more by the end than I thought I would while reading it, and am keen to read what other people say is his better work with the same inspiring message but in more detail, 'The War of Art'.

3 people found this helpful

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Claire Wallbank

Another treasure from Steven Pressfield

Reviewed in Australia on 25 October 2018

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This book will remind you why you are doing the work. It will call you out on your own BS, it will kick you in the pants and get you moving. It’s time to ask yourself, are you an amateur or a Pro?

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Kindle Customer

Surprisingly good.

Reviewed in Australia on 26 May 2019

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The writing is ironically a bit unpro but basically nails how you have to think to achieve what you want to achieve

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S. Willis

Awesome

Reviewed in Australia on 22 September 2018

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Everyone should read this. Concise, direct, applicable to everyone who is hungry. Can’t wait to read more of his stuff. Highly recommended.

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Liv

Must Read

Reviewed in Australia on 14 August 2017

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Short but sweet, a worthy followup to the War of Art. Each chapter is like poetry extolling us to listen to our inner voice and reveal our true selves.

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Sacha Black

Writer rocket fuel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2017

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I swear Steven pressfield is Socrates incarnate. There is something about the way he shapes sentences on the page that attacks the mushy, dark and confused parts of my mind and realigns them. His books are always a spark, a flame and fuel to my motivation. Not because he's soft and lovingly caresses the artist ego into working again. But because he punches you in the tit and tells you to get on with it. One of my favourite parts is when he says he praises us for hitting rock bottom... because at rock bottom there is only ourselves and he's right!

25 people found this helpful

Helena Holrick

get your creative mojo back with this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 August 2020

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I am a fan of Stephen's books. This one goes to the heart of resistance, and sort of manages to bypass any excuses you may have put in place for not taking your 'art' seriously (when I say this, I mean any endeavour you are pursuing). This book is about attitude, about shifting into a different perspective and committing. For those who are reticent about really digging in and getting their story or product out in the world... for the procrastinators, the hesitators and the non-completers, this will help to 'gear up'.

There's a poetry to this book. And an emphatic call that is actually compelling. It will help contextualise the excuses, will let you see how you've been talking yourself out of doing what you long to do. So if you're frustrated by your own inactivity or the nagging call of creative energy that you just don't act on, get this. It should do the trick of inspiring you to just crack on with it. And if it doesn't, then maybe you are still content to just 'dabble'.

Enjoy.

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JR_Devon

A load of narcissistic clap trap

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2020

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This book is short (in hindsight that's a good thing). It has so many great reviews but I really don't understand why. The takeaway from it is basically show up, do the graft and act like whatever it is that you want to do (writing, art, acting etc) is your profession even if you are still doing a different job. Even if you "fail" ie don't get published, don't get cast etc....keep going.
There, I just saved you £5.

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Mrs Steph Caswell

An Inspiring Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2018

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For all those who know they have a true calling, be it writing, painting, parenthood or other, this book will change your mindset from that of the amateur to that of the pro. I'm a huge fan of The War of Art and read it once a year to remind myself of its principles. Now I can add this to my annual reads, to remind myself of what I can become if I turn up and do the work, if I turn pro. A great read-grab your copy without hesitation.

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Beth Duffus

I quite liked it but felt Pressfield didn't really nail the nature ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2015

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This book was exactly what I needed, as I had tumbled into a self-pitying, creative slump. It was precisely the wake-up call I needed, and it has had an immediate impact on my creative energy. I read The War on Art a few years ago. I quite liked it but felt Pressfield didn't really nail the nature of resistance; he just seemed to be saying that you should grit your teeth and get on with it. Turning Pro is more nuanced, in spite of its crisp, short sections. Like a lot of books such as this, the impact will depend on the receptivity of the reader. I had been searching for something to help shake me out of the doldrums for quite some time. This book certainly hit that mark for me.

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