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for love the game, we are all pros already, a professional seeks order, a…
for love the game
The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing.
Too much love can make him choke. The seeming detachment of the professional, the cold-blooded character to his demeanor, is a compensating device to keep him from loving the game so much that he freezes in action.
Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.
It inculcates the lunch-pail mentality, the hard-core, hard-head, hard-hat state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day
Remember what we said about fear, love, and Resistance. The more you love your art/calling/enterprise, the more important its accomplishment is to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
To the gods the supreme sin is not rape or
murder, but pride.
To think of yourself as a mercenary, a gun for hire, implants the proper humility. It purges pride and preciousness
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the professional takes money. Technically, the
pro plays for pay. But in the end, he does it for love.
we are all pros already
Are there principles we can take from what we're already successfully doing in our workaday life and apply to our artistic aspirations? What exactly are the qualities that define us as professionals?
We show up every day. We might do it only because we have to, to keep from getting fired. But we do it. We show up every day.
We show up no matter what. In sickness and in health, come hell or high water, we stagger in to the factory
We might do it only so as not to let down our co-workers, or for other, less noble reasons. But we do it. We show up no matter what
We pick up the phone when it rings, we assist the customer when he seeks our help. We don't go home till the whistle blows
We are committed over the long haul. Next year we may go to another job, another company, another country.
The stakes for us are high and real. This is about survival, feeding our families, educating our children.
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Resistanc e loves this. Resistanc eknows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure
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for love of the game
Too much love can make him choke. The seeming detachment of the professional, the cold-blooded character to his demeanor, is a compensating device to keep him from loving the game so much that he freezes in action. Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever
the game for money produces the proper professional STEVE N PRESSFIEL D 7 3 attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail mentality, the hard-core, hard-head
The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood
To think of yourself as a mercenary, a gun for hire, implants the proper humility. It purges pride and preciousness.
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