Welcome to Money for the Rest of Us.

This is a personal financial show on money, how it works, how to invest and how to live

without worrying about it.

I'm your host, David Stein, today's episode 380, it's titled, How Stories Drive Our Happiness

and Financial Success.

Last week, LaProna watched the 2011 documentary Finding Joe.

It was about the hero's journey, a theory that Joseph Campbell developed and discussed

in depth in his 1949 book, Hero of a Thousand Faces.

He developed this theory over five years, spending nine hours a day reading mythology from

around the world.

He concluded that epic poems, novels, movies, myths all tell the same story when he describes

as a monomyth with stages of initiation, separation, and return.

There are seventeen stages in his monomyth, but the final stage, when there is a return,

the hero brings back his story to share and inspire others.

We are rooted in stories, it's how we view the world, it's how we make financial decisions

based on the narrative that is in our head, that drives our actions.

I've mentioned in the past that I skim numerous digital newspapers and magazines today.

I subscribe to a number of institutional research services that produce a constant stream

of written reports.

I subscribe to Refinitive and Y-Charts that stream news headlines from Reuters, Associated

Press and other services.

I scan my Twitter feed briefly.

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