the hero with a thousand faces hero's journey

Because of fear, insecurity, or a feeling of inadequacy. It could be because you think the path to take is too long or too hard, or that you are not good or strong enough. This is when you choose to ignore the trigger. Walled in boredom, hard work, or ‘culture,’ the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved. Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. That was the moment I realised that strangers aren’t necessarily all judgemental morons, and that I decided to work on my crippling shyness and social awkwardness. To me, the trigger was when a girl invited me to have lunch at her place on my first day in a new school. That trigger can be external – feedback from friends or colleagues, a medical condition, a condition to fulfil in order to get that job you want … – or internal – an epiphany, a desire, a calling. But something has to trigger you into realising that this is the goal you want to pursue.

Advancing your career, picking up a new skill, managing your time more efficiently, learning to play an instrument, eating healthier… Your goal can be anything. The moment you realise that there is something that you want to change about you or your environment. The hero begins in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown. I have picked a few key steps from Campbell’s monomyth that are the best applicable, and will explain for each how they can translate into the several steps of a Personal Development Journey. He compared this pattern to the road one has to travel in order to improve themselves, which sparked the idea for this article. This pattern was first mentioned to me by Ali Sohail, a success coach/trainer and entrepreneur I had the pleasure to interview for our Youtube channel (this article will be updated with a link to the relevant video as soon as it is uploaded). Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a thousand Faces

This basic pattern can be found in many narratives from around the world, and goes like this:Ī hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. The monomyth, or the hero’s journey, is a pattern described by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

The hero with a thousand faces hero's journey