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The Daily Stoic · August 22, 2026 · 26m
The Marcus Aurelius Quote Steven Pressfield Couldn't Ignore
Ryan Holiday talks with Steven Pressfield about the Marcus Aurelius line "Life is warfare and a journey far from home." The conversation begins with that quote as the epigraph to Pressfield's new novel The Arcadian and expands into the hero's journey, the ideas people carry for decades, and reincarnation.
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The conversation turns to the hero's journey as a way of understanding Marcus Aurelius's line about life being warfare and a journey far from home.
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References
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The Arcadian — Steven Pressfield
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The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
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Turning Pro — Steven Pressfield
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Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be — Steven Pressfield
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The Daily Pressfield — Steven Pressfield
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The Warrior Ethos — Steven Pressfield
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A Man At Arms — Steven Pressfield
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Gates of Fire — Steven Pressfield
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The Virtues of War — Steven Pressfield
Misc
✧Steven Pressfield wrote for 27 years before his first novel was published; during that time he worked 21 different jobs in eleven states, including teaching school, driving tractor-trailers, working in advertising and as a Hollywood screenwriter, working on offshore oil rigs, and picking fruit as a migrant worker.
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