Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some id… - Steven Pressfield

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Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Steven Pressfield

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles · January 11, 2012 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Steven Pressfield (born September 1943) is an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays.

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