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00:00 The most important thing that myths teach us is to go beyond the limits of our possibility.
00:10 Joseph Campbell was one of the leading mythology experts of all time.
00:14 He diagrammed all of our stories.
00:17 He finds this one story within all the stories that we can relate to no matter where you
00:23 come from.
00:24 And he called it the hero's journey.
00:26 All the heroes, all the villains, they're all in there because they're all in here.
00:29 This is where they come from.
00:30 In other words, we're not separate from the characters we see in our movies and in our
00:35 novels.
00:36 They are us.
00:37 It's one journey.
00:40 If this path to the hero's journey is fairly simple, why then is it that everybody isn't
00:44 living it?
00:45 It's very difficult for a person with the media, with advertising.
00:49 There's no creativity.
00:51 You end up on that treadmill and you can't get off.
00:55 We are each our own greatest inhibitors.
00:57 The one thing that keeps people small is their fears, or as Campbell says, is their dragons.
01:02 It's a beast.
01:03 It's a monster.
01:04 I'll never forget seeing the ramp and this wave of fear just crashed over me.
01:11 It's going from an unsatisfying life to a satisfying life by pushing through the scariest
01:17 things you can imagine.
01:19 I think people wake up to the fact that they're the hero of their own life when they get tired
01:24 of being the victim of it.
01:26 This idea that our greatest selves are still hidden and that what we do with our lives
01:32 is what makes us heroes.
01:35 Once I saw what was possible with a skateboard in your hand, I had to keep going.
01:39 I mean, I just wanted to fly.
01:43 This is it.
01:44 This is what happens when we follow our bliss.
01:45 Magical things happen that we couldn't have imagined.
01:49 Do something that gives you that moment.
01:52 If you can do that, then you can achieve the impossible.
01:56 The great obstacle for most of us is ourselves.
01:59 If we can overcome that basic fear, in Campbell's terms, we can all be heroes.
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