Why I called my book ‘Warrior Spirit’

My father, myself and my son are all pacifists and refuse to go to war and shoot people. Paradoxically we are all warrior spirits.

I don’t know about you, but I am afraid, in fact terrified, about a lot of things a lot of the time. Warrior spirit is about continuing along your road despite the terror. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose.

Hairy hairy! (that’s Irish for “Scarey, Scarey!”)

My coffee table biography Stephen Pearce: Warrior Spirit with over 200 colour photographs is on a boat from Italy as we speak, and we have just started selling pre-orders from our website – all of which I will sign and dedicate.

My worst Hallowe’en nightmare this year is that when you read it you won’t love me anymore. However it’s a risk worth taking, as it’s always possible you might love me more 🙂

I suspect this is the reason most people write their life story. If people go into this project thinking they will make lotsa money let me tell you, having sat at the kitchen table writing for two years, that you can safely call them a liar.

I believe most people don’t write their own biographies, and in not doing so they miss the opportunity of meeting somebody quite extraordinary. As I wrote I got to know intimately someone who I had been so busy being, that I forgot to get to know him. And it feels really strange at the age of 70 to know that I haven’t known myself all my life.