Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. Welcome to chapter nine of FITSOL, my book from FITSOLBOOK.com,

where you can also get the book for free as a digital download, or you can get a physical

version shipped to you. But I'm also giving you a little audio chapter each week. And this

is chapter nine. If you enjoy these episodes, then you can check out everything else that

you have to do with FITSOLBOOK at FITSOLBOOK.com. Chapter nine, you're not the hero. You've probably

heard of it. Even if you haven't heard of it, you've probably witnessed it, manifested

all around you in early every smash Hollywood hit movie from Star Wars to Rocky to Frozen,

numerous literary works of popular fiction from the Hobbit to Chronicles of Narnia to the

Sorteur Stone and even in Cinderella sports stories such as the Underdog NCAA basketball

team who claims the crown or the come from behind Iron Man triathlete who battles injury

to take victory. In his seminal 1949 book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, author Joseph

Campbell coined the term monometh to describe what I'm talking about, which is now more widely

known as, Drumroll Please, The Hero's Journey. Campbell notes after studying a vast

array of mythological stories across different cultures and time periods, the fascinating

fact that each of these inspirational tales all follow the same basic story pattern and

share eerily similar overarching structures, types of characters and universal themes.

In other words, human beings spanning the planet across eons of time have been using

the same basic story elements to communicate and epic tale with each other for what appears

to be the entirety of our human existence. So what is The Hero's Journey? Well, the basic

12 steps of the so-called Heroes Journey are, one, the ordinary world, two, the call of adventure,

three, refusal of the call, four, meeting the mentor, five, crossing the first threshold,

six tests, allies and enemies, seven, approach to the innmost cave, eight, the ordeal,

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