10 Things I learned from Joseph Campbell
The author of 'A Hero With A Thousand Faces' Joseph Campbell popularized the idea of a heroes journey as a narrative structure for fiction and George Licas used this structure to create Star Wars. Joseph was wise and his quotes are noteworthy and have influenced my life.
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1. The Privilege of a Lifetime is being who you are
2. What you have to do you do with play
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3. We cannot cure the sorrows of the world but we can choose to live in joy
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4. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess.
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5. Our job is to straighten out our own lives
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6. We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us
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7. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come
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8. Destruction before creation
9. Out of perfection nothing can be made
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10. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure
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11. I teach the heroes journey structure in my ‘how to write a novel’ course, out now, link in bio
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