Hello and you are listening to the weekly reflection.

Well, well, the most recent episode entitled 16 personalities,

applying four ways to diagnose life's challenges part two. I appear as a guest and talk about the

four challenges in life from the perspective of story beats. After listening to this podcast, I would like to dive even further into this

framework. By way of review, here is the framework to diagnose life's challenges based on Hamlet's story beats from Shakespeare.

Used popularly in movies, media, and tabletop role-playing games.

The Barrier This challenge The barrier.

This challenge requires going through, around, over, under, and asks the question, why haven't I done this

before?

The puzzle challenge requires nuance, critical thinking, troubleshooting and cleverness,

and asks the question,

how can I think outside my skill set?

The trap challenge requires sacrifice, loss, and delivers setbacks and asks the question,

what am I willing to give up?

And finally, the battle challenge

requires determination, executing function, and willingness to answer the question, what do I want?

In the podcast I introduced the idea of the reward, which provides relief on our quest and keeps life from being one brutal challenge after another and

ultimately satisfies the quest.

But all of these challenges and rewards mean nothing if we have lost the plot.

So today, what I want us to focus on is the dramatic question.

What is the quest?

Quest means to inquire or query as in a question or inquiry.

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