Fake it ’till you become it.
Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves.
Turning Pro
Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work
Steven Pressfield
20120530
About This Book
This book is about habits.
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits.
We can never free ourselves from habits. The human being is a creature of habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones. We can trade in the habits of the amateur and the addict for the practice of the professional and the committed artist or entrepreneur.
When You Turn Pro
How your life changes when you turn pro?
When we turn pro, we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
Active recall means you are actively trying to understand, sympathize, and explain a concept without any help from any notes or any sort of textbook. (time period: 19:21~24:33)
Explaining a concept out loud in complete sentences as if what you’re in a classroom without looking at any notes.
釐清每日工作項目的類型，再針對不同類型進行應對處理，就能有效率地完成工作事項及達成工作目標。
Task Type 1. Methodical
- System
- Schedule
- Habit
例行性類型的工作事項處理：你需要有一個系統，來幫助你進行重複性工作；你需要安排固定時間，來進行這些例行性工作，以避免拖延或累積；你需要一個好的習慣來支持你進行。
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. – Nelson Mandela
我懷有一個建立民主和自由社會的美好理想，在這樣的社會裡，所有人都和睦相處，有著平等的機會。我希望為這一理想而活著，並且去實現它。但如果有需要的話，我也準備為這個理想獻出生命。
By reaching your realistic goals step by step first, you reach your dream goal eventually. And you can always think how to do it again and do it faster.
How?
BEGINNING
You have your dream goals. But you also need realistic goals. So if your dream goal is 10K a month, you got to break it down. Focus on your first 500 in revenue, not 500 per month, 500 in total revenue.
Resistance is an internal negative force that’s always out there resisting you, such as fear, self-doubt, and self-sabotage.
How does Steven, the author of book ‘Do the Work’, overcome Resistance?
Well, the policy he uses is turning pro, which is a kind of a different attitude from being an amateur to being a professional.