Find a post or an article these days on the subject of creativity or creative inspiration and it will undoubtedly mention Steven Pressfield’s book, ‘The War of Art.’
It is a great book. I keep it close by on my desk as I refer to it often. The book can be opened at random to pretty much any page and you’re sure to find something that’s worth reading.
The problem is as I pointed out, it shows up everywhere. Don’t get me wrong. I wrote a blog post about getting your creative juices flowing and it included this book.
But I wanted to try something different. I wanted to use my advanced age (in the circles I run in lately, I’m one of the old dudes at the age of 40) as an advantage to share with people sources of inspiration that may not be very familiar, if at all.
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