A Joseph Campbell Companion
The mythologist Joseph Campbell argued that there are just a few archetypal stories that underpin most myths around the world. We are called to an adventure, face a series of trials, become wiser, and then find some manner of mastery or peace.
Laszlo Bock • Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Stories like these are core to what mythologist Joseph Campbell began to identify in the 1940s as the Hero’s Journey theme in global storytelling, a theme that I was grateful to start understanding in my midtwenties. Hero’s Journey stories convey the transformation of a person—almost always a Quarterlifer—from one level of consciousness to another.
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Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, one of the books I gave to Wang as well as a number of other heroes I know, was introduced to me by my son Paul in 2014.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
