Rule two is, imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that.

This paragraph is taken from a chapter subsection entitled, Who Are You, and Who Could You Be?

An unforgettable story captures the essence of humanity and distills, communicates, and

clarifies it, bringing what we are and what we should be into focus.

It speaks to us, motivating the attention that inspires imitation.

We learn to see and act in the manner of the heroes of the stories that captivate us.

These stories call to capacities that lie deep within our nature, but might still never

develop without that call.

We are dormant adventurers, lovers, leaders, artists and rebels, but need to discover

that we are all those things by seeing the reflection of such patterns in dramatic

and literary form.

That is part of being a creature that is part nature and part culture.

An unforgettable story advances our capacity to understand our behavior beyond habit and

expectation toward an imaginative and then verbalized understanding.

Such a story presents us in the most compelling manner with the ultimate adventure, the divine

romance and the eternal battle between good and evil.

All this helps us clarify our understanding of moral and immoral attitude, personal

and social.

This can be seen everywhere and always.

Question.

Who are you?

Or at least, who could you be?

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