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Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey transformation I'll

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ask you How does the hero transform in campbell's mon

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amis it's really a very individualistic idea of sort of

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human development But campbell's just really invested in this notion

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that all stories are about one person sort of confronting

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life's challenges yellow vanquishing them and then that changing them

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So some of us have heard of the great man

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theory of history which is this idea that history is

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driven not by a kind of complex social forces but

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by individual people making change And the idea is that

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you know these individuals kind of go through various trials

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and like their personal knowledge is responsible for changing all

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the stuff around them The idea of the heroes transformation

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also reminds me of this nelson mandela quote He said

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something like i'm paraphrasing there's nothing like returning home are

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returning to the same place to see the ways in

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which you yourself have changed right So it's not the

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place that is changing it's actually you growing and developing 00:01:23.434 --> [endTime] How does the hero transform in campbell's monuments

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