If you are in business and you are trying to tell your story, you have to watch this.
I am thrilled that Steven Pressfield decided to post these two videos on YouTube. I’m a huge Pressfield fan (you can listen to my conversation with him right here: SPOS #251 – Do The Work With Steven Pressfield). He has written a slew of great books, including, The Legend Of Bagger Vance. I’m an even bigger fan of Pressfield’s non-fiction writing, which typically focuses on unlocking creativity, becoming a better writer and telling better stories. Most people know Pressfield for his seminal books, The War of Art and Do The Work. Those are two books that I constantly find myself reverting back to and re-reading on an annual basis (yes, they are that good). In building up to the release of his most recent book, The Authentic Swing (which is a non-fiction tale about how he discovered and developed the book idea for The Legend of Bagger Vance), Pressfield shot a small video series on something he describes as the Foolscap Method. In short, take one sheet of paper and use it to illustrate the entire story and flow of a book, an idea, a startup, your business, whatever. In a word: amazing.
Watch this, learn Pressfield’s strategy and then let me know just how much better and more structured your work becomes…
The map out approach seems like it would work wonderfully….you can’t argue with the results, right? 😉
Great videos Mitch. I also read The War of Art and Do The Work, and plan to read them again soon. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for sharing this Joel! I tend to get lost in the details so this is an excellent reminder to map. Keeping it on one page adds the boundaries that some of us need 🙂