The
follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the
passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. ┬а
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"You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind."┬а
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TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY.┬а
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When
we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely
comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with
and to call our own.┬а
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TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE.┬а
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The
passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior
odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally,
psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn
pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro.┬а
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WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO.┬а
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What
we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our
voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but
had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.