‘The Difference Between an Amateur and a Professional is in their Habits.’
A new book helps you make the leap.
June 14, 2012 - 4:40 am
So says Steven Pressfield who has a new book out called Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work. Pressfield discusses how bad habits make us amateurs at life and good habits make us professionals at our life’s work. Bad habits such as addictions — to love, sex, worship of parents or children — are distractions, from becoming the “artist” or professional that one wants to be. Through these addictions, people waste their lives one repetition at a time. Instead of finding their life’s work, they run from it with habits that keep them from doing what they love. The book is a good one for entrepeneurs, writers and others who find themselves in need of some inspiration.
Technically, the correct expression is “The Difference Between an Amateur and a Professional is in HIS OR HER Habits,” as the two nouns are singular.
The Difference Between an Amateur and a Professional is in their repective Habits
In the field of the creative arts, the difference between success and failure is a nearly mindless addiction to pedantry, crossing i’s, dotting t’s, and researching until the creativity is squeezed into the gutter.
Stick Clark Ashton Smith, “The Nightland,” H.P. Lovecraft, Jane Austen and Jack Vance into a grammar editor and see what you get – I’ll tell you right now – nothing.
“Bad habits such as addictions” Hmmm,does that include wasting time surfing the net?