Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times Best Selling author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.

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James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

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Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

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Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. He's also the founder of the online workshops altMBA and The Marketing Seminar. Godin has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

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Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.

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Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Broderick Stephen Harvey is an American comedian, businessman and entertainer. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition and Fox's New Year's Eve. Harvey began his career as a comedian.

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Jason Zweig first started writing a personal finance column for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig also edited Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett said "by far the finest book about investing ever published." He's the author of Your Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to look at investing's biology, as well as The Devil's Financial Dictionary, a satirical lexicon of Wall Street jargon.

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Joshua Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is based on his early life.

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Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books.

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Dr. David Sinclair, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, is one of the most well-known researchers in the field of rejuvenation. David is Australian-born and released his bestselling book, 'Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To', in 2019.

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<p>&nbsp;Simon Oliver Sinek is a British-American author and motivational speaker. His first book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , was published in 2009; his most recent book, <a href="https://bestbooks.to/book/the-infinite-game_simon-sinek" target="_self">The Infinite Gam</a>e: The Pursuit of Happiness in Its Own Terms , was published in 2017. He has been featured as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, TEDx conferences, and at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.</p>


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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

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In The War of Art , Steven Pressfield demands that we reconsider what it is to be a professional in any field.  It's about mettle, and the wisdom within it to trust yourself, confront your fears & inner demons and move forward.  It's a story about the struggle to pursue ones dreams, about the many reasons we give up on them…and why we should never.  At its core, it's an inspiring book that instills optimism and hope in us all. 

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Joe Rogan is an American comedian and podcast host. He has also worked as a mixed martial arts color commentator, television host, and occasional actor.

Alex is the creator of Alex & Books, a website with amazing book recommendations, reviews, and reading tips. He is the host of The Reader's Journey podcast, and has amassed a large following on Instagram and Twitter sharing book recommendations and insights.

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Ana Lorena Fabrega retired from teaching in the summer of 2019 to pursue her dream of being an EDUpreneur—a passionate educator who works outside the classroom to provide innovative learning opportunities.She co-founded Write of Passage Summer Camp in early 2020 with David Perrell, a virtual learning experience where youngsters from all around the world come together to work on causes they care about.She is presently the Chief Evangelist at Synthesis, an unique online learning experience for curious and ambitious youth interested in learning how to build the future. They're employing a game-based approach to learning to scale up the most inventive concepts from Ad Astra, the school Synthesis cofounder founded with Elon Musk.

Matt D’Avella is a filmmaker known for his hit Netflix documentary, Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things. He has amassed an enourmous following on YouTube where he shares videos on minimalism, psychology, fitness, personal finance and life. He also hosts a popular podcast called The Groud Up Show.

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Research scientist at MIT working on human-centered AI and deep learning approaches to shared autonomy in self-driving cars. Fun fact: he's a black belt in Jiu Jitsu.

Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into over 30 languages and has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as multiplatinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Tucker Max is an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000.

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Cited in Forbes as the most influential woman in Social Media and recognized by ForbesWoman as one of the top 20 women bloggers, Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, a training company that empowers marketers internationally with the skills they need to drive success at their companies.

Derek Sivers is an American writer, musician, programmer and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians.

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Jen Sincero is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, success coach and motivational cattle prod who’s helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her products, speaking engagements, newsletters, seminars and books.

Daniel H. Pink (born 1964) is an American author. Four of his books have been featured on the New York Times bestsellers' list. He was host and co-executive producer of the 2014 National Geographic Channel social science TV series Crowd Control.

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Soman Chainani is an American author and filmmaker. His first novel, "The School for Good and Evil", debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, has been translated into 28 languages across 6 continents, and will soon be a film from Universal Pictures.

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Steven Pressfield is an American author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays.

In 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, 300 Spartans faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumored to be over a million strong while their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as long as possible while the main Greek armies mobilized.  For six days the Spartans held the invaders at bay.  In the final hours - their shields broken, swords and spears shattered - they fought with their bare hands before being overwhelmed.  It was battle that would become synonymous with extraordinary courage, heroism, and self-sacrifice: it is Thermopylae.  In Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the epic story of those legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves become immortal. 

Ron Conway is an American angel investor and philanthropist, often described as one of Silicon Valley's "super angels". Conway is recognized as a strong networker.

James Norman Mattis is a retired United States Marine general and former government official who served as the 26th United States Secretary of Defense from January 2017 through January 2019. A retired United States Marine Corps general, Mattis served in the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.

Gates of Fire

In The War of Art, Steven Pressfield explored his concept of the Resistance and how to overcome it.  Pressfield's follow-up book, Turning Pro, examines the transition from professional amateur to professional artist.  TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE.  The passage from amateur to professional is achieved as one moves through an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. 

Turning Pro

When you understand that nobody wants to read your stuff, you develop empathy.  You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability of switching back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer.  You learn to ask yourself with every sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

The enemy is not unpreparedness, the difficulty of a project, the state of the marketplace, or the emptiness in your bank account.  The enemy is resistance.  The enemy is your chattering brain, which—if you give it even a moment's worth of thought—will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications, and a million reasons why you can't/shouldn't/won't do what you know you need to do.  Forget about getting ready and get started anyway!

Do the Work

We are all warriors.  Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.  Do we fight by a code? If so, what is it? What is the Warrior Ethos? Where did it come from? What form does it take today? How do we (and how can we) use it and be true to it in our internal and external lives? The Warrior Ethos is intended not only for men and women in uniform, but artists, entrepreneurs and other warriors in other walks of life. The book examines the evolution of the warrior code of honor and mental toughness.  It goes back to the ancient Spartans and Athenians, to Caesars Romans, Alexanders Macedonians and the Persians of Cyrus the Great (not excluding the Garden of Eden and the primitive hunting band).  Sources include Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Xenophon, Vegetius, Arrian and Curtius--and on down to Gen.  George Patton, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan. 

Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). He is the author of Millennial Money: How Young Investors can Build a Fortune, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and a contributing author to the Fourth Edition of What Works on Wall Street. Patrick’s podcast “Invest Like the Best,” which is a series of conversations with leading investors across asset classes, recently passed 7 million listeners.

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