Good day, my friend. Welcome to A Moment with Moj. Thank you so much for downloading the show, I am thrilled to be here with you. I hope that you are having a most excellent day. Steven Pressfield joins us today as we continue our look at The War of Art, from pg.93, "The professional learns to recognize envy driven criticism and to take it for what it is -- the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had the guts.
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Good Day, my friend
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welcome to a moment with Moge. Thank
you so much for downloading the show I
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am drilled to be here with you. I hope
that you are having a most excellent
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day.
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Stephen Press feel joins us to day, as
we continue our look at the war of art
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from page ninety three
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quote:
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The professional learns to recognize
envy driven criticist and to take it
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for what it is. The supreme compliment,
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the critic hates most that which he
would have done himself if he had the
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gods
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when we're learning a new skill or
we're building an existing skill,
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we have to be open to criticism if
we're trying to get better. If I think
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I'm singing great and rocky comes over
and tells me you're going flat in a
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couple of spots- and you know your
pacing is a little o or your breathing
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could be a little bit better here, then
I'm going to listen to her criticism,
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because I know that she's not
criticizing me personally. I also know
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that rocky nose what she's talking
about so that gives her words a little
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bit more weight. But that's not the
type of criticism that this quote is
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talking about. This quote is refered to
that person or could be a couple of
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folks in our lives that have never
achieved
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the thing that were about to try and
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we can't let these people get to us. My
friend
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and another thing that we can't do is
we can't get angry at them. Some one
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who can't see their own dreams are
never going to be able to see and
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understand your dreams. Sometimes our
actions, being bold and being brave,
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can inspire other people to do the same,
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but sometimes are being bold and brave
and going for it can actually anger
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some people
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because they see or being bold and
brave, and they remember when they had
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the chance to be bold and brave, but
instead they chose scared in a prey and
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seeing you go for it reminds them about
how they did it go watt.
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We have to build up our internal
fortress to not let these outside
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criticisms getting in, because our
inner critic is already strong enough.
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The inner critic doesn't need any help
from anybody shoot now on the outside.
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My friend, don't let some one gave up
on their dreams. Talk you at a given up
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on yours
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mean you. We just have one job to keep
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going. You keep it up. My friend, I'm
right there with you carpet momentum,
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I'll talk to you to morrow.
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