Have you ever wondered why you bring such discipline to your day job yet treat your deepest creative ambitions with casual inconsistency? This disconnect lies at the heart of what Steven Pressfield calls the amateur versus professional mindsetโthe pivotal difference between eternally dreaming and actually creating.
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