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The Hero’s Journey is a sort of ‘template’ by which one can track the story and progression of heroes from any genre – from ancient myths to Harry Potter.<\/p>\n
This narrative arc has many applications outside of narrative fiction.\u00a0 I personally use the arc when drafting speeches, working with clients on the trajectory and plan for their careers and personal legacies ahead, and even communicating expected life cycles of businesses.<\/p>\n
Before Campbell died, he sat with Bill Moyers for a series of long-form interviews.\u00a0 They are nothing short of wonderful, inspiring and enlightening.\u00a0 You can view the series either on Netflix or on Bill Moyers’ website at the links below.<\/p>\n
While I took pages and pages of notes from the series, below are my main takeaways for each episode.<\/p>\n
Episode 1<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n The Hero’s Journey is a sort of ‘template’ by which one can track the story and progression of heroes from any genre – from ancient myths to Harry Potter. This narrative arc has many applications outside of narrative fiction.\u00a0 I personally use the arc when drafting speeches, working with clients on the trajectory and plan … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,66],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[114,117,116,123,121,109,107,120,119,112,20,111,105,124,125,118,108,115,122,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The most courageous of all acts is to:<\/div>\n\n
<\/div>\n|<\/div>\nEpisode 2<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe end of things is always painful, and pain is part of there being a world at all – it is necessary.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n|<\/div>\nEpisode 3<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nRealizing that THIS moment in your life is actually a moment in eternity, and having it in the temporal is actually experiencing the Mythical Journey.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n|<\/div>\nEpisode 4<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe realization of your Bliss and true purpose only comes when you put aside the moments of terror and pain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n|<\/div>\nEpisode 5<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLove is the pain of being truly alive.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBelow is a great ‘cheat sheet’ visualizing the steps of the Hero’s Journey<\/em>:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hero-Journey-illustrated.jpg\")
<\/div>\n(image credit:\u00a0dopeame.com<\/a>)<\/p>\nFor a great 3-minute animated overview of The Journey check out this video:<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Hero’s Journey according to Joseph Campbell – video by Matthew Winkler and Kirill Yeretsky<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full Moyers-Campbell interview series can be viewed at:<\/p>\nBill Moyers website –\u00a0https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/<\/div>\nor<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNetflix –\u00a0https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/|<\/div>\n<\/div>\n(This post originally appeared on www.damondamore.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"