"Many years ago in Thailand there is a temple that was called the temple of the Golden Buddha." "And there was a huge statue of the Golden Buddha." "And word came to his village where the monastery was that an army from neighboring country was about to invade." "And they've got the brilliant scheme to cover the Golden Buddha which is quite large with mud and concrete so better look basicly like a stone Buddha and the army would perceive no value in it." "Sure enough this army rolled in with its ... arms and weapons and as they passed by the monastery they saw nothing but a big stone Buddha and they have no reason to plunder it Well years went by because the army continued to occupy" "until there was a time in the monestary and the village when no one remembered that the Buddha was golden until one day a young monk was sitting on the Buddha meditating on his knee and as he got up a little piece of concrete" "happened to crack off and he saw something shiny." "He realized there was gold under there and so he ran to his fellow monks and said "The Buddha is golden, the Buddha is golden", and they all came out and realized he is telling the truth" "they took the pics and harass." "And eventually they unearthed the Golden Buddha." "So what's a metaphor here?" "The metaphor is that each of us is golden by nature were born golden we were born high, we were born knowing, were born connected to our bliss, were born knowing truth, we were born knowing everything that every great spiritual master has ever said," "we were one with the Christ, the Buddha, everyone but then we went to school and they said you had to be just like this, and they said these are sweat boys and sweat girls, white people and black people and on and on and on," "and so we developed the casing of stone over the Buddha to ... at a young age, maybe four or five six or seven, we believe that we are the stone Buddha, not the Golden one." "And then, something comes along that cracks that casing, maybe it's an injury, a divorce, financial setbacks, our governmental change, something that really scares us and bugs us (?" "HÍ) and knocks off a piece of our armour, and all in that moment that the armour is being knocked off, they get a look inside and see the golden." "Let me tell you friend, that the moment you see that gold the armour and the concrete will never satisfy you again." "At that point you truly enter to the true heroe's adventure an all you want to do for the rest of your life is pick away the stone because the gold is so much more fun." "Finding Joe" " A film by Patrick Takaya Solomon (suggested subtitle instead of this for SEO purposes):" "The Hero's Journey Movie" " Joseph Campbell Who is Joseph Campbell and why should we care?" "(Robert Walter" " President:" "Joseph Campbell Foundation)" "A topic that comes up a lot." "Joseph Campbell was one of the leading mythology experts of all time" "Joseph Campbell is a philosopher." "The man who had this ability to see the truth in a world where we've lost sight of that in many ways. and actually started by studying" "Native American mythology." "He fell in love with it when he was a kid." "This was his bliss." "He went on studying the aboriginal cultures he studied Greek mythology, he studied Arthurian legend," "He dissected and really diagrammed all of our stories." "He compared philosophies, mythic stories of the whole world." "All myths, all movies all novels, all romances" "He found this one story within (Chungling Al Huang, Founder-President:" "Living Tao Foundation / Tai Ji Master) all the stories, that we can relate to, no matter where you come from." "He recognized that in spite of all the different stories we seem to be telling, there is really only one." "And He called it the Hero's Journey." "There must have been thousands and thousands of hero's stories (Gay Hendricks Ph.D., best selling author, The Hendricks Institute) from every culture, but until Joseph Campbell came along certainly I never realized how they all kind of fit together and how they were" "basically the same story." "I was religion major in college." "I was taking my final exam." "(Rashida Jones" " Actress/Screenwriter)" "I had a moment where I've just gobsmacked." "It was just like holy crap, it's all the same thing." "I mean it is really all the same thing." "The hero's journey is a pattern." "You can almost think of it as an algorythm, that has three basic parts:" "separation, initiation and return." "Separation: you are in one kind of a reality in one kind of a place and you are separated from it." "Initiation: you're put into another place, where you are in some manner initiated." "Return: you come back. A SIMPLE VERSION OF THE HERO'S JOURNEY is, someone starting out in their normal protected world (Catherine Hardwicke, Director of "Twilight")" "and then getting a call to adventure.A call to adventure." "There's a vision, there's a quest." "(Deepak Chopra M.D.)" "It's the story of the hero enduring some trials, (David L. Miller Ph.D.)" "various trials and ordeals, meeting different obstacles along the way." "People that hurt you." "People that help you." "Doors will open as Campbell would say for you where there are no doors for others." "Dragons will appear that are your your dragons alone." "you get to like ?" "meet?" "the innermost cave where you're really challenged, like the greatest crisis, in which you find your true self." "The achievement, the glory." "But then that's not the end of it, that he has to bring that back to the community, there's a return to tell the story." "That is a heroic journey." "Separation, initiation, return." "All of the adventures of the human story are in there." "All the heroes, all villains, all the gods and goddesses and all of the nights and of all the fantastic creatures we can conjure up in animation, they're all in there," "Because they're all in here in the heart, because they're all in here in the head." "This is where they come from." "If you look at some of the greatest pieces of literature (Robin Sharma, best selling author, Sharma Leadership International) the greatest works of philosophy, they all have what" "Joseph Campbell called The Hero's Journey." "And if you look with a piercing eye you can recognize his outline in just about any move your story you would read." "Star Wars, The Matrix, Harry Potter." "Wizard of Oz: that's a classic story of the hero's journey." "You first see Dorothy and our natural environment and just like out here in regular life a person is operating in their natural environment every day and living in their house and that kind of thing." "And then something happens to shake that world up," "And you go on a journey in which you have to face certain tests and challenges Storytelling is typically about people learning something." "You go to a place which is dark and mysterious, you are faced with yourself there is a relationship between facing fear and this kind of soul game." "You acquire a quality, a hidden strength, a value, moments where somebody is tested somebody moves to a place where it feels like a crisis point and then they are restored, redeemed, made better through that trial." "And we call them heros." "If all of these stories boiled down into one map, ]]] we can use that map, because all human beings are the same ]]] whether they're going through a war like World War II or going to a war inside ]]]" "it's basically the same kind of process. ]]]" "In other words we're not separate from the characters we see in our movies and our novels, they are us, this one journey." "The whole idea of the hero's journey is a journey of life, clear patterns to guide you through. ]]]" "You're born, you have a childhood, you have adolescence and you try to find the place for you to become an adult. ]]]" "and you go through adventures, you struggle with the inner conflicts and finally you become a hero: you slay the dragons, you succeed in conquering all the demons and use them (?" ") to step over threshold ]]] and finally you have arrived." "We're all born, we die but within this short span we have to have some meaning, some reason for this existence. ]]]" "Doesn't have to be higher mighty and fantastic ]]" "You can have a very simple life and still go through the very similar pattern We've grown up watching great heros' journey movie, it's that impulse within us that seed of potential that wants to be actualized." "It's being talked to during those movies and being whispered to: ]]]" ""It's time for you to do that!"" "That's the story here, that's what it's all about." "It is a wonderful narrative, iconography for how to live life." "The idea that "Try hard, you get", the little engine that "I could, I think I can," "I think can, I think I think I can, I CAN!"" "This idea that we really can do better, be better that our greatest selves are still hidden and that the future is the prospect of coming to terms with that self." "Dorothy had to confront her inner barriers and so the journey she went on was not just a journey to find out how to deal with the Wicked Witch of the West, ]]] it was how to deal with her own inner resources, how to claim her own inner resources ]]]" "and at the end of the movie how did she get back home?" "Well, she cicked her heels together, so she had it all the time, the ability to get back home but it didn't get mobilized for her until she went through all of those challenges and was able to kind of test herself." "It's kind of the ordinary moving into the extraordinary." "Its going through the dark to come out to the light." "Going from an unsatisfying life to a satisfying life by pushing through the scariest things you can imagine." ""The funcion of mythological symbols is to give you a sense of Aha!" "Yes." "I know what it is, it's myself"" " Joseph Campbell The most important thing that the myths teach us is to go beyond what we perceive as the limits of our possibility." "So mythology needs to be seen for what it is which is: ]]]" "which is a metaphor for our human existence." "It's not a history lesson." "It's ametaphor for life and for universal experiences." "Lot of people reading myths and they say it refers to something historical:" "the creation of the world or something like." "But Joe didn't think that." "He thought that it's really a narrative about the psyche." "What Jung called the self." "The problem is that many of us are metaphorically impaired." "We don't realize that this thing that they're talking about is actually a metaphor for a transformation process." "Just kind of like the Holy Grail, where it's not the thing, ]]]] it's not the actual concrete Grail, it's an intangible thing, that the Holy Grail is a metaphor for that intangible (?" ") feeling." "And so if you look at a book and it says you will go to heaven, and you don't realize that they're talking about heaven on Earth, heaven in our bodies, heaven right now, in the now, ]]]" "you might fall into a trance of thinking that you're literally gonna go some place else if you follow the rules." "Having been brought up in a mythical culture," "I was very familiar with the different motives, and themes that were encapsulated in say a mythical being." "Whether it was the Lord Shiva or Ganesh, or a goddess, just thinking the name of that person, the whole story was evoked." "Carl Jung called these archetypes." "Archetypes of primordial, encapsulated stories or mythologies and they are there in this form of a seed in consciousness." "When you plant that seed in consciousness, that archetypal seed, that mythical journey, in there the seed starts to sprout and as it sprouts, the patterning forces create situation, circumstances, events and relationships for the unfolding of the story." "It's better to have a story to look through life ]]] than an explanation. ]]]" "The reason for that is the story is richer." "I say select two or three heros and heroins either in mythology or religion or history and then ask these mythical beings to incarnate through you." "And then don't be surprised when you see situations ,circumstances, coincidences, synchronicities, relationships sure suddenly show up, that actually are part of the story that you have been seeking to express." "Once upon a time in the forest there was this little tiger cub amongst the flock sheep." "And he ate grass, and he wondered around with the sheep, and when he tried to say anything all that came out was a certain a little meow." "Not much of a roar." "And one day through the forest comes a large male tiger And he is just about to pounce on the sheep when he sees this tiger cub." "He says, what are you doing here?" "And the tiger cub goes, beeee." "He picks the tiger cub up by the s?" "of the neck, and carries him over to pond and he puts his face over and he says: ]]]" ""Look, see that face?" "]]]" "You're not a sheep, you're a tiger!" ]]]" "The male tiger says, okay, we need to do something." "He slays a sheep and he grabs a big runk ?" "of meet, and he shoves it into the little tiger's mouth." "And the little tiger gagged on it as all do on the truth. ]]]" "But it went down. ]]]" "And he got a little bit of energy, and pretty soon, ]]] he had a bigger tiger roar." "And eventually he had a full Tiger roar and he went off with the male tiger." "I think the moral here is self-evident:" "if you're a tiger living among sheep you' rea a really poor specimen of a tiger." "And we are all Tigers living among sheep." "We are all individuals with a self that we don't even begin to understandand." "And unfortunately, when you can open the metaphor out, the food we get from the culture around us is maybe food for sheep." "It's not food for Tigers. "Your life is the fruit of your own doing." "You have no one to blame but yourself"" " Joseph Campbell" "We have to catch at least the spark of what your life is going to be or you may spend those dreary decades in corporate America, climbing the ladder only to discover its against the wrong wall." "You get to the top, who cares?" "If this path of the hero's journey is fairly simple in design, why then isn't it that everybody is a living it? Well the answer is that most people on the planet live under a kind of a" "mass hypnosis." "There's a tremendous pressure even in the media on really keeping people in their place in the sense of keeping them happy, tranced out consumers." "It's a trance of comfort, it's a trance of not sticking your hand up above the crowd very much." "That keeps the enterprise going." "Most people think it's a luxury and a great privilege to stay home and look at their 800 inch television you're just spaced out, not developoing." "We're stimulated by some images, by some loud noise." "It's about collecting things and stuff, and making a lot of money and doing a lot of things and it's impossible to enjoy that because you end up on that treadmill and you can't get off." "And so most people, unfortunately, because they are so victimized by the environment, they have no time to think, or be themselves, they become bundles of conditioned reflexes and nerves that are constantly being triggered by people and circumstance," "into very predictable outcomes and predictable patterns of behavior, ]]] there's no creativity That's the trance, that's the wasteland, where we're just guided toward this weird sense of what's real on our lives," "and those ideas that are imposed on us from the outside about what we should and should not do." "It usually starts out with something like you shouldn't talk to that person because they're from a different tribe, you certainly shouldn't marry that person ]]] you should go to this school, you should have a certain type of car, you should live in a certain type of house," "you should have a certain number of kids by this type age, should should should should should. ]]]" "What I experienced in my own life was I gotta have the degree from this university, I gotta have this advanced degree from this" "University preferably either a law degree or a medical degree or something to that effect some letters after my name which would say that I have a stamp of credibility" "I can go out and make my six figures in society, ?" "kind of deem me worthy ]]]" "I have countless examples of young people who go to college because they are expected to go to college and they study biology because ]]] since the time they were six they were supposed to be a doctor. ]]]" "It's very difficult for a person who was brought up in this environment of instant gratification with the media and with advertising with all the promises of instant gratification by buying something, for example, or having a certain" "level of afluence that you lose contact with this mythical domain which is actually part of your soul." "It's there in everyone." "It's their passion, it's their bliss, it's their unique skills." "it's their unique good ways of expressing themselves, is their soul / song ?" ", which if they think, ]]] they could do anything." "If you look at every heroic journey, the hero has been confronted with the fact that the world that they thought was reality was nothing more than illusion." "I go back to The Matrix... what was the matrix?" "It was just this big illusion, it was the dominant values and beliefs that the world had put around this guy Neo, the seeker on the hero's journey, and what did he do?" "He felt this longing to go beyond the illusion, to go beyond the matrix," "So he took the red pill, and he woke up to reality." "And what was reality?" "Reality was he was full of potential. "The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero..."" " Joseph Campbell Separation begins with what we call "The call to adventure"." "Campbell tells us there's literally almost a phone ringing. ]]]" "It's like the universe, the divine, god, whatever you want to call it, literally dialing you up and ringing ]]] and giving you a call asking you to step out into what is your journey. ]]]" "Something breaks into the ?" "reality and makes it impossible for you to continue." "Well, you can hang up the phone, you can run away." "But he'll ?" "keep coming back, it will keep coming back until you finally answer the call." "If you're not paying attention, the wake up calls come in the form of a sledge hammer." "You know if you're paying attention, they might come in a tical ?" "feather." "So we don't always get the call as a choir of angels with trumpets singing ?" "to his?" "beautifully warm sunny morning." "In Star Wars, Luke comes back as his house has been burnt down." "He's gotta go." "Often times it comes in ?" "the depth of our despair in losing a job, getting fired, getting divorced, having your house foreclosed on..." "These things that you would never want to have happen are ?" "often the exact things we need to catapult us, to catalyse us into that next version of ourselves. ]]]" "Bad things happen to good people and when that happens to them they typically are thrown for a loop ?" "because they frequently have felt everything's going along, I'm doing everything right, what happened.. Well, you know, the universe has just up ended you and it does do that." "The Chinese symbol for crises is too symbols." "The first one is danger and the second one immediately is opportunity." "So crisis both enjoy anopportunity" "This idea that if one storyline collapses that that's the end of the movie is not true in human life and never was true in human life." "I know people who have prospered in the most extraordinary way in the worst type of adversity, but actually it revealed something to them about themselves that they didn't know and that became the new journey they took." "Let me put this into really practical hundred-pound terms because if the camera had been pointed at me when I was 24 years old what it would have seen was a person who weighed" "320 pounds you would have seen me puffing on two or three packs of Marlboros a day, a relationship that I didn't want to be in and I had a job I hated, everything was wrong in my life and so" "those are ripe moment for a wake-up call in life." "You know, if you haven't been paying attention enough so that you end up with a job you hate, a relationship you don't want to be in, a abody you don't like, and you're addicted to a bunch of things, you're ripe" "for a sledgehammer blow from the universe and I got it." "You step over a threshold, meaning you move from one world into another, sometimes you're shoved from one world into the other." "I went out for a walk and I stepped on the ice on the road and my feet shot out from under me and I smacked my back of my head on the ground, frozen ground, and it knocked me out just enough I wasn't" "completely unconscious but I had a vision while I was semi-knocked out, I could see down through all the layers of myself to this pure consciousness inside and I could see how all the fat I had was organized around a whole ]]]" "bunch of feelings I didn't want to let myself feel, ]]] like sadness from childhood ]]] and lot of old grief in my family and anger and things like that and I realized that the fat was there to keep me from" "feeling those feelings and so as I began to come back to normal consciousness" "I made a vow that I was gonna change my life so that I could live in that state of pure consciousness instead of having to have all of that armour around me." "Once you make the decisions that Joseph Campbell is talking about, about really hearing the call and being willing to take on the challenges of that new awakened life, once you do that you begin to feel a power ]]]" "that it's like nothing else I have ever experienced." "And I think a lot of us are just plain very afraid of that. ?" "]]] I tend to think that people wake up to the fact ]]] that they're the hero of their own life when they get tired of being the victim of their own life." "At the point that you say "Enough", "I know", "I don't want to listen to my parents anymore" "I have had it with my boss", "I'm really having problems perhaps" "the sermon I'm being taught", you can either surrender to victimhood and a lot of people do, ]]] or you can surrender to a fundamentalism: you can basically give your responsibility to someone else and say "Tell me what to do and I'll do it"" "or you can say "I have a choice here and I'm responsible"" "Now, what does it mean to be the hero of your own life?" "It means to be responsible for your own adventure." "Campbell talks about metaphorical death, where something dies ]]] so the something can live and in every hero's journey there is ]]] some death-moment where some old has to go on some new has to stay." "He quotes Nietzsche and he says that "The snake that cannot shed its skin must parishthe" When death is a motif in a myth it doesn't refer necessarily to what happens at the end of one's biological" "and physical existence." "It's an indication that change has taken place." "I went through that process when I stopped being [Joseph Marshall III, best selling author] a travel administrator and started becoming a writer" "I put that aspect of myself away, it was valuable and I learned a lot and I draw on it, but it enabled me to go on. ]]]" "No death, no life." "No death, no transformation." "No death, no change." "Than I said, okay, I don't want that anymore, I want this, put that away made myself into something else." "In essence, resurrected into being a writer." "The whole key to a blessing death is recognizing that it is just the death of one old form that has played itself out and has no use anymore, which always, as the Phoenix, rises and gives way to some new form that has new intrinsic meaning and makes your life even bigger and better." "You want have new birth, new revelations new insight into life as you grow as a human being." "You will learn to keep dying. "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us"" " Joseph Campbell" "I think its tricky to afford a proof." "I think there are proofs in our lives" "I think the proofs exist in our ability to transcend the worst things that have happened to us." "My proof is I was are abused as a little boy not something I chat about typically but in this context, ]]] 521 00:34:07,266 -- 00:34:10,399 it was the worst thing ever. ]]]" "It went on for a very long time and... who I am in part, because I had to face that," "Because I had to wrestle with that, because I had to accept that and acknowledge that and forgive and all the terribly difficult things that come with that." "I had to tell my parents... you know it's this... and by the way it's one of the things that you work with for the rest of your life." "But from that most difficult thing also came a kind of understanding" "I get high marks on compassion." "I wouldn't wish it on anybody..." "But it is part of what made me me." "So the truth is it's not what happens to us, it's what we do with it." "The forest represents the darkness, the unknown, the edge of your world." "And it takes the courage of a hero to go into that forest." "The people in your community don't understand ]]] why you want to go into that forest." "In fact, they are pulling you back, asking " Why can't you be happy with what you have here?" But there is this urge that exist within the hero: "Go and explore!"" "Joseph often used the Knight of the Round Table." "When they behold golden chalice. ?" "There's a story with King Arthur, and his knights." "After the Knights have seen the grail and decide to go forward on a quest the made a vow." "They decided the knightly thing to do, the noble thing to do as individuals seeking their own inner ?" "collective, was to go in to the force at their own points." "Each knight enters the forest where it was the darkest and there was no path." "They cannot follow other people." "They have to go in, find their own entry into the dark forest. ]]]" "Campbell makes it really clear:" "if you go into the forest where there's already a trail, that's the one sure sign that you're not on your path." "Because if you follow somebody else's entry, it's somebody else's path." "That's not going into the forest." "That's not initiation." "You need to find your own path and that kind of comes from that impulse within to go out and really discover who you are beyond just the narrow confines of how you have been conditioned what you have been told to do," "and go out and explore for yourself which is true if it is and ?" "?" "go out and rock it. "Follow your bliss"" " Joseph Campbell The hero's journey for me as having the courage to look within yourself and say" ""What am I here to do?"" ""What am I most passionate about in my life?" "What are my greatest gifts?"" ""How do I give them to the world?"" "and Campbell captured it with the phrase "Follow Your Bliss" "Follow Your Bliss"" " I don't think more profound teachings have ever been given than this one." ""Follow your bliss" means listening to your heart and following your truth." "Just to be specific about the word "bliss", it's not ecstasy, it's not happiness." "There's a serenity in bliss." "I like to talk about your bliss as "the thing you can't not do"" "So it's your authentic journey." "I'd heard "follow your bliss" but didn't know where it came from and what's cool is that it's grounded in ]]] deep Hindu spirituality and philosophy and it comes from the Upanishads." "There were three launching points into enlightenment: ]]]" "sat, chit and ananda." "So sat means beingness, cit means consciousness and ananda means bliss or rapture." "Joseph Campbell said to himself "I don'treally know what my beingness is, if I'm honest with myself, and I don't really know what my consciousness is, but I do know what my bliss is." "I can follow my bliss and that idea of trusting ourselves and trusting that impulse within us to go out and follow our bliss, do what makes us feel most alive:" "that's the path, that's the key, that's the essence of the hero's journey. "Follow your bliss" does not mean: get addicted to pleasure. ]]]" "That's more than just something you wish for." "It doesn't mean escapism, it doesn't mean hedoism ?" "[Lynne Kaufman, award winning playwright.]" "it doesn't mean selfishness." "It doesn't mean listening only to sensory pleasures ]]] like having sex with anybody you look at or sticking up a candy store if you want candy... Don't follow what other people think is your bliss!" "Don't follow your wallet!" "Followed the thing that's presenting itself as your most serene and fulfilling state." "Sometimes it's difficult to let go of that inner resistor and just say "Okay, I accept the possibilities of the present," "I will follow my bliss, I will listen to the call of spirit"" "Huhhh, that's a very big deal! Daddy said "What do you wanna do" I said "I need to leave school." "I'm never gonna learn anything." "I'm not going to University." "I want to play drums." "I learned to play drums in the attic and [Mick Fleetwood, founder:" "Fleetwood Mac]" "That's my world and totally naive, like sshhhss, so Dad sends me off to London." "With the drum kit." "So I went to London, and all of it came true of course I'm not saying I gotta be rich, I gotta be famous, but I have to be doing something I love to do!" "And I have so much passion!" "And I didn't even know what that was really all about." "But I do now." "How do we find our bliss?" "This is what everybody is asking." "The first thing is, ask yourself, "Where am I passionate about?" "]]]" "What are the things I love doing?" "What are the activities that when I engage them, ]]] it feels like hours go by in minutes?" "That's one big clue about what your bliss is." "What I say is, find out what you most love to do!" "And then do more of that thing." "Ask yourself right now:" "What was it that made me different as a child, what set me apart, what caused me to cry at night on my pillow because I didn't fit in with the in-crowd ?" "that is probably precisely where the door to your bliss is going to open." "Go back and find it." "Let's say you never had to think about money, and you never had to think about dying. ]]]" "With all the money in the world in all the time in the world how would you express yourself and how would that benefit the ecosystem, the larger web of being?" "We have to find a a way of reflecting on those experiences that we've had that engaged us in where we became lost and totally absorbed in them." "So for some people a way to that might be to write these things down, others don't think like that, they don't like to use words all the time, so maybe collect some images or cut some images from magazines," "collect music so as to inspire you." "But some way to bypass that apted ?" "barrier to your own sense of energy. ]]]" "It's not about being successful, ]]] it's not about feeding a family." "Write some bad poetry, do something that gives you that moment." "You can write in a journal, because writing a journal is a conversation you have with yourself. ]]]" "You can get to know your gifts, your talents your weaknesses, your hopes, your dreams, your lessons." "Joseph Campbell always gave the same advice to his students graduating Sarah Lawrence." "Don't do what Daddy/Mommy says!" "Because Daddy/Mommy has one interest in mind for you, and that's your security." "And if you bargain away your life for security now, you will never find your bliss! I started skating because my older brother was into it." "[Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder]" "And I enjoyed it but" "I'd didn't take that seriously until the first time into a skatepark and then I saw these guys literally flying out of empty swimming pools." "I got so excited that that was even possible as a person to be flying in the air with the skateboarding in your hand and once I saw what was possible and what you could do with this thing that I would have come to enjoy" "I had to keep going, I mean, I just want to fly." "I think is really important to do thingsthat make you happy and I know that sounds very obvious and you know some reviewed the viewers mightsay well now let's hold hands and sing" "Kumbaya but when you look at every greatinventor every great business person every great scientist you look at thesepeople who have got to the so called mountaintop and almostevery single one of them to a person didn't do it for the money they did itbecause they were chasing a bless" "if you're following a dream you doingwhat you love it's not always going to be a financialsuccess but there will be a personal success because you're still doing the same love doingand what's more important" "on low" "I would described my discovery of serving exposure time" "I was just watching surfers you watching what they were doing and what surfingwas all about it the route that they were taking in the ways they were doingit" "I think my new subconsciously before Iknew consciously I think I knew that I was gonna do something inserbia I did surfing was gonna be a big part of my life so I wanted toabsorb all the information I could just because you don't know with a callon your life" "is right now doesn't mean play anAustrian stick your head in the sand and say well just because I don't know when Iguess I shouldn't move towards anything the new the very fact that you'relooking for you bless" "means that you're in the process gettingto bliss the current white and purple journeys explorations human resources of berry berry D wedon't know that and we don't know that often because wedon't look for them" "we don't take the journey some people found and many people have not foundthem because I'm not found that talent secondthey don't have any" "I believe passionately that we all havedeep talents gold try things you've never done beforewith the things you wish you'd done but you never did well why didn't youcome to try if you always go the same route to worktake some different to the people you" "never speak to go inspect them at least put yourself out but don'tanticipate what you'll find put yourself in uncomfortable situations at least every seven days it ever sinceat least every seven days people are laughing at you are scratching theirheads" "wondering why you're dreaming so biggerdoing what you're doing we have such a fierce resolve toachieving your goals that I don't think you're stretching in a and ultimately we grow the most dothings that stretches the field" "of and my personal journey I was pride in not like I didn't investUniversity but a part of me need the journey and worse interest inthe west to I jumped at the next opportunity toget a scholarship" "and got on the boat then my slow boat tothe west took 14 days identity Portland Oregon and to be a foreign student I stretchmarks arrive I know meaningless and go toCostco" "English for foreign students and Englishand" "I embraced a Western culture stretch mysaid so suddenly I see a part of me whichwhich" "I never knew or snare it 10 Joe's most beloved quotes about blissis that when you follow your bliss the universe will open doors where there were only walls wonderful image and in bed a lot ofpeople's experiences so like this" "the me feel like you're beating yourhead against a brick wall on and then suddenly you shift just a tadhad and lo and behold him there's a passage that opens on" "0 when you truly stuff wirthlin and trustyour bliss on unseen forces have the power to rearrange things toaccommodate your step face theme the No on I took that Robert McKee course Ithought well that's not that hard arm and I wrote a screenplay and" "I sent it to a friend of mine who wassomebody's assistant left it on his desk and some otherregions wandered by and pick it up and read it and said oh this is good and so that myfriend went home ship me" "ran to his boss he said you should readthis because that guy over there as a junior age it like that and his hipboss was 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well collude with integrated story that it's hard to get out I'll forexample you know don't do music you want the musiciansyou know there's no point trying to be a" "dancer because you never make a living" "I think that's the first step to thejourney that the team is we don't have to face time we are each our own grace inhibitors itso well people people can say oh yeah the skieswill be back on the situation but really" "you hold yourself back you're deciding pay I don't want to lookbad in on those guys are I don't want thoseguys to say some bad things about me so" "I'm not gonna do that who made that decision you I'm not goingto do that means you decide there's a former roomie great mythical portrayal mean listed in the 12thcentury who said I wanna thing like bird thingnot wanting who listens" "what they think but if you can do thatand then you can achieve the impossible the" "0 the" "0 them for me one of the most formativetime so first probably most prominent I'm and Idropped out of law school all my friends at the time told me westayed in the first year I could make" "you the first master I was literallynauseous at the idea completely mass I burn myresume" "I had no desire to live within thecorporate world any sense and in the same 24-hour period of timeended my relationship five years dropped out a possible you'relistening right away gut-wrenching soul ranchingtime move back in with mom" "there are several months registrationbad slapton rad there wasn't a pretty process but theonly thing I knew I wanted to do was the coach little league baseballteam little bit of instinct that I have beenlittle bit a place I have my life at" "that time was to work with these cams and I had noidea what would come out a bit and then" "36 months later I had an idea that wowthere's an amazing opportunity to serve families in sports the internet was just getting goingsince 1998 and I had a vision of what I could do to serve these families" "in creating a company that there's noway I could have imagined when I dropped out of law school no possible way as it turns out Istarted this business we won the business plan competition UCLA be raised five million dollars I hardlysee your body does to be arsenio" "and we hired the law firm I would havewanted to work for before I graduated from Costco so this is beautiful you know sense this isit this is what happens when we fall or less magical things happen that we couldn't have imagined we weregoing through the tough" "point of making the decision to take aweek to go forward and to make the difference the murdered two roads in life the Red Road in a black girl" "Red Road is the tough row cuz its narrow its winding its foremost arms its Fulham obstacles the black road skeezy it straight and that's why doesn't offerany challenge storyteller never says you have totravel this road where you have traveled" "this room in the tell you the story on the redblack road by saying this the choice is yours 0 always the choiceis yours just living a spontaneous life with myfather the bond passions that my father sharewith me" "we got on a plane seven in the morningI've Santa Monica Airport flying towards Big Bear where I had oneski race the day before were returning to Big Bear clock mytrophy on the way the inner storm we crash headlong" "right into this rugged out a $200 fee its the level we crash I woke up our bodies were sprawled in this45-degree icy chute it was a blizzard was harder find everybody took me about half hourfor from is peace everybody where they" "were my dad's girlfriend Sandra was stillalive my dad was hunched over and it wasunclear whether he was dead or just some knocked out three you know through like comatose orsomething I just told myself that he was" "knocked out a certain point I had to admit that hewas you will help me more than I was on my own saundra nah I took shelter under wing many things happen eventually we starteddown this just initials fancy shoes she slept" "and was killed an hour later I cameacross your body" "I covered her with twigs and leaves andstuff even I knew she was dead pretty much hereyes were open source confusing for me at that age I was 11and then I continue down in the varied terrain in all kinds ofthings happening got stuck in snow I" "had a get through Little Creek culturesand and broken rocking I E San I just wanted togo away more than anything in the world I wantthe pain to go away now had I not had I not him gone in there and seenthat" "that thing that that thing I fear themost" "I would not have learned to serve find the jam in the treasure pain those answers that were there forme and had I not face up and i not gone and stared in theeyes and think I feared most" "that why one run promos I would not behere now this book which is really besides havinga kid" "P not satisfying experience in my life home this Campbell talks about the fact we go onthe hero's journey there's a drag in we must slay world now a dragon is the most challengingfears creature they can ever be created" "him mr." "GV my Joe Campbell describes the dragon asbeing a beast covered with scales and on every scale it says either that shelter but thoushalt not on the so this beach is a constructional alllove the rules regulations social obligationscultural creations that have" "made you feel that you either have to or can't do certain things I'm no slaying the dragon to me is the mostinteresting the final moment the time when you are faced with the scariest thing you'vebeen faced with him" "you get to take everything we've learnedand and not the guy I am that if you were to ask you what's the onething that keeps people from the mountaintopswhat's the one thing the keeps people small rather thanallowing them to present their genius to" "the world it's it's their fears are is JosephCampbell says its third reagan's the mysterious anything that gets in you the new it's a beast it's a monster thename here yes you know let me face every day youknow only fear that we can be" "rejected that we're going to be you know no one's gonna answer return our phonecall that no one's gonna like well we made a while we did what we saidon fear that isn't based om has a tendencyto" "creep it moves through your experiences it starts to talks if I your perception cuba com scared love is what web along with and fear iswhat we learn" "I think there's a great truth in that" "I want to hold a player you know I hadthis idea I knew it was physically possible million usually do it Hot Wheels do thisLabor Day com and so I A presented the idea to mysponsor the time" "they said adding it to do this lizardthat sounds awesome the around I designed around you know inall this is on paper and it was my idea and I'llnever forget driving up and seeing it and this wave fears crashearly Lycoming" "what tonight are you serious like I madea loop" "I'm really in it like and I'm the onlyone that's even volunteering to do it and at that point I felt like I was somuch at stake to not do it you look at the time no wasbuilding" "extravagant Rams no one really had moneyto do that kinda thing and there was no psych and I just hadasserted internalize and say okay you keeptelling yourself this is possible this is the time we got to make thishappen and little by little I figured" "out my text heavy heavy hits that day the the actually now we own one for Hutchinstour the that we could do into every single night but but that first time you know that was cells is frighteningbut I had to I had to really step back" "in OK you can use the mail fears are very interesting fan first but we need to realize that fearis an inherent part in the human experience but it's not about getting rid of fearwhere's it going hours now there's" "nowhere for it to go the issue is to have courage to moveforward in spite a few you feel the new the courage is not a lack of fair the courage is is dealing with a faint and nobody would have a it's not as courageous youdidn't and from their own fair" "and that's not going to tell that justdoing summit if I'm relatively and challengingCurtis when you know what to do can you do it and lack of courage iswhen you know what to do and don't do it courage is is the ability did to get up" "after your phone gigante exploring theunknown and and trying stuff the maybe peoplehave thought was impossible is just like a muscle if you want to getstronger you wanna run a triathlon to run a marathon or do whatever you wantto do" "physically you know you need to trainyou need to get stronger current is exactly the same thank youthink a bit like courage GM you've got a consistently go up yourfears go one step past one step past you'll find your comfortzone expanse each time you do that" "things used to freak you out won't freakyou out as much and now you have the tools you have thestrength literally to lift more in your life as you face your fears one moreauthentically there is some" "power monsters get by being dark in thecloset I'll and there is some diminishment arm by facing them facing them head-on and are are suggests Campbell talk to theslaying dragons and with most others do their liveswhether it's a difficult assignment at" "work when there is a difficult conversationwe know we should have with a loved one whether something we're resisting weleave can run in the opposite direction rather than running away we should gocloser to you because once we can see" "here fierce the death here you know theconcern do the things that scare you you knowcourageous what comes after it is okay to be scared shouldn't stop you a healthy warning election stuff the No of mmm over dragon that hordes all the storiestalk in those terms for several reasons" "am on the one hand we could call aprojection tennis psychological sense so we project out and we create and antagonised that we have to slay more but what's actually happening iswe're I'll dealing with the energies insideourselves what he's outside is in fact a" "reflection what's inside that it backyou've sorted shows n your 10 the new of course in Star Wars which wasn'tpretty much entirely based on camels paradigm blue sky Walker has to go into K where he does battlewith Darth Vader" "the new we're finally he cuts of DarthVader's head in the head rolls to his feet and Darth Vader's helmet opens up" "North Jersey City but his own face hethinks that is evil outside of him when the struggle between good and evilis understood to be going on inside of us it can be very beneficial this is partis a personal transformation" "overcoming I negative aspectsemphasizing are good ones but what often happens of course we wantto feel that we are good so we don't find the negative withinourselves we're gonna find it somewhere out there the great optionalfor most" "as ready as ourself you know if we canovercome that basic fare about what we might achieve and we takethat risk" "I think all kinds of things open up inand Campbell stands now we we can all be heroes I'm the hero encounters these obstacles and Wales and the and that's how we react when we findourselves in a situation where we have" "that and cognitive dissonance how do I get out amid the nobel first thing is you have to surrender youhave to stop fighting in the mood are the new so slaying the dragon is really coming to terms with thatinner part of Use" "yourself that you think is bigger thanyour and in doing that then you grow bigger sent to your cell go however I think dad its loving your to hack that's the much moreefficient thing to do it also feels a lot better" "theme when you do that then frequentlywhatever the dragon was hiding reporting this step away and give it tome they give it to you because there's no began when you're fighting you findyourself we stop fighting yourself" "then you're no longer engaged in thefight in Europen to what might come true though is a gift in battling demons andovercoming because that's what our soul's journeyis about its about facing fear growing beyond" "and as we overcome our fears regainpower you look at our lives the best most rewarding moment com after stroke as such what we do with our allies is what makes us Europe or not arm and there's grace in knowing and there's aTF yeah" "believing hey every minus mishap a plus way the first row coverarticle where Nash in other words on one level to make ithere you had to deploy CA have that health challenge a got fired in a kilnarguing that" "has not troublesome but one awarenesscan you add to it see get a far bigger picture helps youmaster at a certain point in the hero's journeyit's going to become a Down you loving and accepting yourselfpension why" "that's a powerful moment because thatline she worked directly with the universe now there's no more war going on inside yourself and as that gapheels between your unlovable South in your ability to montana lovable selfbecame an awesome power" "life the way we think the kindness as linear" "I'm born I'm gonna go through thesethings I'm gonna die here's journey tells us know you'regonna go here you can have this adventure in uni come back and guesswhat you gonna be right back where you" "were now you can go over here have thisadventure you come back you're gonna go here you can have thisinvention unit come back and guess what you gonna be right back where you werenow you can go over here have this" "adventure you come back and guess what you right here what didyou bring back I'm what the hero brings back the No is a story Gomes for example gocommission a big he went out any look for the plan to bemore challenging" "he went through all kinds it runs withthe feminine with her the monster and so on but he finally swam to the bottom of the sea and gotthe plant immortality he came up on the short put it downwhile he was bathing" "the snake serpent came and got thatplaintiff immortality but he went home to o'rourke anyway andhe had this story to tell for gil comish there was no concrete objective thing widget to give to the community no gold" "no treasure and so on the story thetrain getting the treasures treasure and so the giving this story is the invitation for other people tomake the same journey that's why it's a circle and never hitlove that idea that there's a circle" "and the circle needs to be closed andthe way to close the circle is to come back return with something different than you startedwith and to share that not to me is like a perfect hero'sjourney deaths" "the ultimate in to the US Attorney's notslaying dragons not being the bad guy it's giving backthe essence in that journey looks like about how can I make adifference and who can I make a difference" "24 and then it gets really easy a kind get a shirt for the future taking he'sgetting more here's more only my friends starartistic said he's trying to make moving he doesn't have the money" "what can we do it visually all love saidwe're doing things that we are going to do anyway but downso we can make money for him and make him finish the movie and then all since I will let's do thatagain that was great when I found this success in skating andI never dreamed possible" "the first thing I want to do is try tohelp kids get a facility in and that was the first thing I did I start afoundation for public skate parks it today we've helped build about 500 skateparks" "it's my passion it's what I would loveto do is provide facilities for these kids to deserve a chance I love talking to youngwriters about writing there's a scholarship by primed which isup screenwriting scholarship at Wesley" "where I went to college the away to up everybody who wants to be what we arewith a crow this if you speak to somebody at thelevel of the mine can you speak to them if you speak to mea hot" "you will speak to the hot work if youspeak through your life in your life has thestory then you changed that's what mythicalbeings and it's why stories are great becausemy story right now which is my also my truth" "may have an effect on you and therefore" "I'm picking the in trouble" "I'm making an external and through that" "I'm sharing experience no matter how long you get to live lifeis ultimately for sure before all the silver in the dust andthe street sweeper gets buried next to see you know all that really matters at theend of the day is how big" "showed up and how courageous were I think when we are on our debt that'swhat feels are hurt integration crack is not all risks we talk not all the opportunitieshe sees and all the times we we don't live inlook silly" "bushels are the bread at theindustrialized world responded in taking all theopportunities didn't sees and it's really all you gotta do toget to the next step" "I believe we all have in this to thinkto ourselves okay a choice between our bob is a story you're telling nixon feel the morning it if you like you can overcome and thatnixon deal transcend about a week ago you" "I'll are are room" "I'm done" "1 %uh %uh %uh" "%uh I'm them"