The Art of Courageous Living Week 2: The Hero’s Journey
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Why Courage Matters
❖ Future leadership❖ Skills in critical thinking❖ Resilience to fear-based campaigning❖ Life purpose -> wellbeing and fulfilment❖ Commitment to long-term common good❖ Smart decision-making
Courageous Life vs Average Life
Lifetime
Achi
e vem
ent
Courageous life
Average life
–Anaïs Nin“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Structure
❖ Phase 1: Separation or departure❖ Phase 2: Trials and victories of initiation❖ Phase 3: Return to society with the boon
Merriam-Webster❖ Definition of hero:
❖ a : a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability
❖ b : an illustrious warrior❖ c : a person admired for achievements and
noble qualities❖ d : one who shows great courage
Wikipedia❖ A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a
person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing his or her own personal concerns for some greater good.
Examples of Heroes?
❖ Why are they considered heroes?❖ What values of our society do they represent?❖ Can you imagine a culture in which they would
not be considered heroic?
Heroes as a Product of their Era
Time
Defi
nitio
n of
her
ois m Divine/Mythical
Historical “Great Man”
Working class hero
Celebrities?
Oral traditions Books Movies Internet
Recent Heroes in the News
❖ Everyday Hero: Wheelchair of Hope Founder (lost arm and leg in rail yard accident while saving colleagues, has climbed Kilimanjaro and set up foundation)
❖ Hero teacher jumps down 75ft mine to save boy, 3, by keeping his head above water for TWO HOURS (and nearly dies herself)
❖ Off-Duty Firefighter Saves Restaurant Full Of People From Carbon Monoxide
❖ Terrified Man Who Fled New York Blast Immediately Returned To Help Victims
Even if we don’t call them “heroes”, who do we pay
most attention to?
“You’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” —- Jim Rohn
“The people we admire can have an ongoing and often unrecognized impact on our thinking, our decisions, and the way we live our lives.”
— Barbara Bernard
What was the impact on you of reading about the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Exercise❖ Who are the five people you spend the most time
with (in real life, online, in the media etc)?❖ What would the average of those five people
look like?❖ Is that the person you want to be?
Feminine Heroism
❖ Kimmel (1996): Gender must be made visible to men since “we continue to treat our male military, political, scientific or literary figures as if their gender, their masculinity, had nothing to do with their military exploits, policy decisions, scientific experiments, or writing styles and subject”.
Women in Wartime❖ Halonen (1999): Images of women in situations
of catastrophe are usually portrayed as:❖ crying woman (usually mourning for a man)❖ earth mother❖ women crying together (sisterhood)❖ mother and child as victims of war❖ damsel in distress waiting to be rescued by a
man
Homework (optional)❖ Think of a story from your past when you were at your
most “heroic”. ❖ In 100-200 words, write the story as you normally
would.❖ In 100-200 words, write it as a heroic tale, focusing
on the emotions, qualities, and strengths that elevate it from the everyday to the heroic.
❖ Now write about something audacious you want to do in the future, using the heroic style.
❖ What are your monsters/Kryptonite?