216 - You Are a Passive Protagonist
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the passive protagonist and how this storytelling technique can help us change our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, if you haven't already, you really need to go to Tiny Leaps dot today. |
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| 0:21.0 | In this episode I talk about the passive protagonist and what |
| 0:25.8 | that means for your own life. Pay attention because you are now listening to |
| 0:31.2 | tiny leaps. |
| 0:33.0 | Big Jam. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies |
| 0:59.2 | you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode I want to talk |
| 1:06.2 | about the passive protagonist. First let's talk about them |
| 1:15.4 | them when researching this episode and quite honestly it makes more sense to just |
| 1:20.3 | share what they have to say rather than trying to explain it myself. |
| 1:24.0 | So here we go. |
| 1:25.4 | Quote, after more than 10 years of reading manuscripts and writing reports on them, |
| 1:32.1 | I have noticed that passivity was overwhelmingly the |
| 1:35.7 | communist feature of the protagonist. Often the protagonist had no goal, but even when |
| 1:41.8 | they did have a goal, they did nothing to try and get it. |
| 1:45.8 | When the protagonist is passive, the story must rely on the other characters to bring the action |
| 1:50.9 | to them. |
| 1:51.9 | The antagonist in particular will go out of his or her way to bring the action to the |
| 1:57.0 | protagonist, even especially when it's against their own interests to do it. Thus the protagonist becomes |
| 2:05.6 | merely reactive. They spend all their time fending off the antagonist without |
| 2:10.4 | actually doing anything to get what they want. |
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