how to undertake the artist’s journey

• We are all artists—whether we realize it or not, whether we like it or not—and we are all on an “artist’s journey.”
• The artist’s life is defined by the works he or she produces. The artist has no choice in this. A calling from birth impels him. You have that same calling. Your life is unfolding according to the template of a “hero’s journey” that is unique to you. You can’t escape it. You can’t run away from it.
• Hero's Journey

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1. do the work 
   In his book “The War of Art”, my teacher Steven Pressfield1 — I refer to him as my teacher because I am learning from him, and therefore he is