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How To Be A Pro

Author
Susie Moore
Published
Tue 08 Apr 2025
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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 mindset—the pivotal difference between eternally dreaming and actually creating.

Drawing from Pressfield's transformative book "Turning Pro," I share the twenty qualities that separate professionals from amateurs in creative pursuits. These aren't traits reserved for the talented few but accessible habits anyone can develop: showing up every day without exception, staying committed over the long haul, acting despite fear, seeking order in your creative process, and perhaps most crucially, self-validating rather than waiting for external approval. The professional mindset demystifies creative work, removing the romantic notion that inspiration must strike before progress happens.

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