It’s critical to the mythology of the hero’s journey to establish the origin point, and like many in tech, our hero’s tend to venture West. Many American heroes have this in common.

Searching for folks with differentiating origin points, life journeys, developmental triumphs and failures → will lead us to new archetypes.

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“call to adventure.” It’s a challenge to embark on a journey to “a zone unknown,” a “fateful region of both treasure and danger,” somewhere that “the familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit.”6 Upon arrival to this faraway place, the hero is given the chance to solve a difficult

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"If we are to build a future of belonging beyond the constraint of today, we need to move past the individualistic narrative of the hero’s journey, and dig into the complexity of collective imagination and world building. Whether we risk deification of a singular human or lay the culpability of systemic failures at the feet of an individual, the... See more