Turning Pro

Turning Pro

The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. <br /> <br />"You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind." <br />--Steven Pressfield <br /> <br />TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY. <br /> <br />When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own. <br /> <br />TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE. <br /> <br />The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro. <br /> <br />WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO. <br /> <br />What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.