The follow-up to the bestselling The War of Art. In Turning Pro, Pressfield identifies the enemy of living an authentic life – resistance. In this sequel to The War of Art and following in the tradition of Spiritual Combat: Man’s Encounter with Reality and Giving Up the Ghost: Living with Death, Pressfield teaches you how to defeat it.

In Turning Pro, bestselling novelist and New York Times bestseller author Steven Pressfield takes you on a journey through the world of professional writing, revealing how to overcome resistance, embrace uncertainty, make sacrifices, and become a pro in the field of creativity.

The most critical work of Steven Pressfield’s career, Turning Pro, is a guide to achieving the ideal life. Whether you’re a business executive or professional athlete or training to be one of the best soccer players in the world, you’ve all experienced resistance. You have to know what it means to be on the other side. Now Pressfield reveals how to defeat this enemy and how to live an authentic life that’s yours—a life worth living.

Turning Pro is Steven Pressfield’s sequel to his bestselling The War of Art. He wrote it after hearing countless writers complain that the war of art was just another excuse for not writing. He thinks there are more reasons why people write than just feeling like they should. The easiest way to defeat the enemy, resistance, is to become a warrior yourself. The author says you must “practice walking away” until your writing becomes habitual and automatic.

About Turning Pro Book

The follow-up to the War of Art. In the War of Art, Pressfield identifies resistance as the enemy to living an authentic life. In Turning Pro, Pressfield teaches you how to defeat it. Turn Pro is a relatively short book on the importance of courage and how it relates to your creative life. It’s a departure from Pressfield’s usual strategy of teaching writers through struggle, but clearly, something big is coming down the pipeline, so watch out!

Steven Pressfield’s bestselling classic, The War of Art, was a bible for creative types who struggled against the resistance their art imposed. Now, in Turning Pro, he tells you how to overcome this same resistance when it arrives in your life. Using the iconic character of Jack Milton, a struggling artist who can’t seem to produce anything of value or beauty but is also unafraid of leaving his ‘profession’ behind, Pressfield weaves a compelling narrative that speaks to anyone who dares to dream even as they fear success.