Category Archives: Professionalism

More Haruki Murakami in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The fol­low­ing is more from Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Run­ning:
It might be a lit­tle silly for some­one get­ting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly: I’m the kind of per­son who likes to be …

September 20, 2009 – 9:41 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Haruki Murakami, Health, Mental Exercise, Professionalism, Rites of Passage, Running, Toxin, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Writing | Tagged | Comments (0)

Excerpts on the Artist’s Way from The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The fol­low­ing excerpts on the artist’s bat­tle­fied are from The War of Art by Steven Press­field, who wrote Gates of Fire (NYTimes Best­seller) and The Leg­end of Bag­ger Vance (NYTimes Best­seller).
(The bold on text is my own. )
A Pro­fes­sional
Some­one once asked Som­er­set Maugham if he wrote on a sched­ule or only when struck by inspi­ra­tion. “I write …

August 19, 2009 – 7:18 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Inspiration, Professionalism, Steven Pressfield, War, Writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)