Muscle for Life

Contrary to the title, it’s not just for artists. It’s for anyone that wants to make a good life for themselves and their families. It’s a tribute to persistence and industry, and some of its core messages are… Don’t just wander through life from pillar to post. Find something that matters to you and pursue it passionately. Don’t whine about how much hard work it takes to succeed. Learn to love the work and despise failure and quitting, instead. Don’t let your feelings dictate your actions. What you want is rarely what you need, and you can create the right feelings by taking the right actions. Don’t wait for inspiration. That’s how amateurs stay amateurs. Do the work, grind it out, and eventually you’ll get inspired. These bits of advice are all well and good, but what really makes it stand out among the many other books that say many of the same things is it doesn’t just tell us what we “should” be doing to succeed, which is pretty commonsensical, really, but it goes deeper, and tries to get at WHY we find