The Hero's Journey (book) Puns

If it was about Inglorious Basterds, that'd be great. However, I'm not opposed to changing my topic.

My English class is going to be starting up a project on the Hero's Journey, and as apart of it we are going to be allowed to read a book of our choice that fits into that theme. I'm looking to choose a Halo book to read and due my project on, but I'm not sure which one would best fit.

So, I've come to this sub for advice. Which Halo books fit the Hero's Journey best, and of them which would you recommend?

Hello again fellow users of r/asoiaf! As noted in my previous entry I’ve been working on finally posting something a bit more substantial than brief notes on symbolism and of course my usual tinfoil cult proselytizing for our PGKEGDLAAR, and wanted to share what I’ve been working on!

This is two part series focused on the archetypes of the Hero’s Journey and how they relate to our boy Bran.

Part One - The Winged Wolf of Winterfell - (posted here) this covers the First Act of the Hero’s Journey as it pertains to Bran.
Part Two - The Boy Who Would Be Greenseer King (you are here!) - we will reach the end of the thus far published books and head into the realm of reasonable speculation.

So once again, without further ado…

Monomyth, a term coined by Joseph Campbell and elaborated upon in Hero With A Thousand Faces, explains a common narrative shared by storytellers over the past few thousand years of written record and across most any or even all cultures worldwide - the protagonist hero leaves home, has transformative adventures, confronts himself via a crisis, defeats an enemy or accomplishes a grand quest, and then returns home. In our most ancient myths and stories, be they Perecles, Osiris or many others, the hero often becomes king of his people as well upon his return.

Modern hero and comparative myth studies have their genesis in the latter half of the 19th century, continuing on to be viewed through the lens of Freudian psychoanalytics, most famously by Carl Jung, and while Campbell’s contributions are perhaps the most famed and critical to the field, other academics such as David Lee Leming and Christopher Vogler have taken up the reigns and the study continues on to this day. Though this archetypal narrative may be innate to the human experience and our psychology, we can reasonably assume that most professional storytellers, George R.R. Martin included, are themselves well versed with Campbell’s seminal work in comparative myth and literary analysis.

While Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen certainly tread upon some of the key stages themselves, perhaps more than any other character throughout the large cast of A Song of Ice and Fire Bran Stark’s narrative personifies the Hero’s Journey archetypes, albeit of course with some GRRM twisting and subversi

Books I have read on this genre

• The Lord of the rings
• Harry Potter
• Red rising
• The Alchemist

See full post with images: https://loopinput.com/the-heros-journey-of-coding/

Almost universally learning to code is hard. It is hard and it is frustrating. Resources to go from 0 to 1 as a beginner are easy to find but figuring out the path from 0 to mastery are not.

The modern coding environment only complicates this as more and more options, tools, frameworks, and potential paths are invented. These options are designed to make coding more manageable, but for a beginner can be overwhelming.

My goal here is to lay out a clear, structured path from 0 to mastery I call “The Hero’s Journey of Coding.” The Hero’s Journey is hard. The Hero’s Journey will be frustrating and will feel hopeless at times. But the Hero’s Journey works.

I heavily based the strategy on research from Cal Newport (computer science professor at Georgetown University) and Barbara Oakley (professor of engineering at Oakland University), as well as on a large body of research into learning, and more specifically, learning technical subjects.

Learning to code is a non-linear process and forcing a strictly linear structure on it will slow your learning process. It is analogous to learning a language.

Two hypothetical people start studying Mandarin at the same time with no prior knowledge of the language. One begins a course that promises mastery of the language by the end of the course. The other takes the same course… but supplements it with reading books in Mandarin, watching shows in Mandarin on Netflix, speaking to Mandarin-speaking people in his or her area every day, listening to the news in Mandarin, listening to podcasts in Mandarin, memorizing Mandarin grammar structures and vocabulary words, switching to the Chinese servers in the online games they play, asking about aspects of the language that confuse them in Mandarin language forums etc.

Because the second person is varying their types, contexts, and methods of learning, they will learn Mandarin surprisingly faster than the first person while preventing burnout by altering the kind of cognitive load they place on their brain.

Additionally, since the gains are cumulative, the second person will exponentially approach mastery faster. This approach is backed by research. If you want to look into it further, Harvard has an excellent compilation of research into the topic here: [https://bsc.harvard.edu/study-tips-guides](https://bsc.harvard.edu/study-tips-gu

I'm looking for a 'classic' western film with the familiar themes of "The Hero's Journey". Something like a main character facing the dangers/challenges of the frontier, while exploring it or while trying to find their way home. Preferably with action sequences (relatively fast cut if possible). The main character does not have to be an active "hero", in that sense. I think it would be fun to see an (at first) passive character (someone who reacts to rather than move the plot), who then goes to become the actively engaging hero.

Hope someone can help me out!

I've been wanting to read "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" for a while now to better understand the hero's journey. However, while it has a 4-star rating on Goodreads, some of the reviews I've read are quite scathing. Has anyone here read it? Would you recommend it as a starting point or something else? Thank you.

I have been DMing for my nephews recently who are 8 and 5, and noticed the tell-tale signs that they try to be contrarian at the start of an adventure and intentionally try to reject the story premise, or do something that is clearly designed to derail a story. such as not wanting to go into town and stay on the outskirts, or avoid going to the location that the plot hooks are steering toward. Nothing that an experienced DM can't handle, but it really got me thinking.

Anyone who's played or DMed long enough has either played with people or been the culprit, of not jumping feet first into the plot hooks that clearly lead to the adventure. The "original" advice iirc involves the DM closing the book and staring at the players until they agree to go on the adventure, or just packing up and ending the game early.

In my adventures I usually try to bypass this phase by having the group already know each other, and already be on their first job to try to just get things going with the assumption that they are already part way into the adventure when they begin to avoid any accidental or intentional derailing of the story.

But I've really been starting to think about the "Hero's Journey" lately, a general format of story that spans thousands of years and crosses cultures to the point that many of it's elements could very well be at the core of our instincts as story tellers, so that the second part the "Refusal of the Call" might not really be such a bad or contrarian thing, that it is or should be a natural part of the story, rather than something to roll your eyes at when players/characters do it.

There are a few problems that I've been trying to mull over regarding this step in crafting an adventure. The first problem is that this is not the story of one hero, but a group effort, and not everyone necessarily wants to refuse the call, or they don't want to refuse it in the same way, so it can cause some conflict, that or multiple people want to refuse it in different ways, and then you have to resolve them all individually. The players that want to jump into the main plot then get frustrated or annoyed by the player(s) refusing the call. the second problem, is that the call to adventure can often seem railroady, which is it, and the most important part of the refusal of the call, is the part that comes after, that something happens so that the call cannot be refused, which IS super railroady, but also how the Hero's Journey is supposed to proceed.

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My life is about to change come 2020. I just got rid of a toxic center I used to visit and I actually thought I was receiving treatment but what I was receiving was abuse disguised as treatment. I need something to shift my thoughts away from this episode.

Edit 1: OMG guys!!!!! Thank you so much. I went away for 8 hours and was welcomed with all of this! I'm still going through each response for the book recommendations! :))

Let us compare Finn and Rey.

Rey inherited power without working for it so she gets to save the day. Perfect 1%-er protag.

Finn is a drone rebelling against his programming. Can't have the workers thinking they matter so his only role is to cheer on the real heroes, rich people force savants. They don't even let him be force sensitive because he is not welcome due to being so low class at first.

Finn is not allowed to be the hero at any point because Bob Iger, Kathleen Kennedy, JJ, and Rian Johnson don't think of themselves as privileged. They think they earned everything alone.

That is why Rey is superior in all aspects and why her cartoonishly oppressive upbringing doesn't stop her from being OP. These people believe that they would have risen to the same level regardless of their circumstances of birth.

They force pulled herself up by her bootstraps with a small loan of 1 million midoclorians and an inheritance of 40.

Rian Johnson went back to the source of Lucas original inspirations in many ways when writing TLJ. Kurosawa. WWII films. Campbell. There seems to be a misnomer that Luke Skywalker's hero's journey had ended in the OT because it's unusual for most characters to have the time to make it to the true end of the hero's journey. There's usually just not enough time to do so. Consider the last stages of the Hero's Journey with Luke:

Rescue from Without

Just as the hero may need guides and assistants to set out on the quest, often he or she must have powerful guides and rescuers to bring them back to everyday life, especially if the person has been wounded or weakened by the experience.

The hero may have to be brought back from his supernatural adventure by assistance from without. That is to say, the world may have to come and get him. And yet, in so far as one is alive, life will call. Society is jealous of those who remain away from it, and will come knocking at the door. If the hero. . . is unwilling, the disturber suffers an ugly shock.

The Crossing of the Return Threshold

The trick in returning is to retain the wisdom gained on the quest, to integrate that wisdom and share it with the world.

The easy thing is to commit the whole community to the devil and retire again into the heavenly rock dwelling, close the door, and make it fast. But if some spiritual obstetrician has drawn the shimenawa across the retreat, then the work of representing eternity in time, and perceiving in time eternity, cannot be avoided" The hero returns to the world of common day and accepts it as real and worthy of salvation.

Master of Two Worlds (via Astral projection because luminous beings are we)

This step is usually represented by a transcendental hero like Jesus or Gautama Buddha. For a human hero, it may mean achieving a balance between the material and spiritual. The person has become comfortable and competent in both the inner and outer worlds.

Campbell: "Freedom to pass back and forth across the world division, from the perspective of the apparitions of time to that of the causal deep and back—not contaminating the principles of the one with those of the other, yet permitting the mind to know the one by virtue of the other—is the talent of the master. The Cosmic Dancer, declares Nietzsche, does not rest heavily in a single spot, but gaily, lightly, turns and leaps from one position to another.

Freedom to Live (for an eternity) Mastery leads to freedom from the fear

How many pedals do you now have on your current, "final" board, and how many total pedals have you bought over the years in searching for that "final" board? How long did the process take? How many "final" boards have you had on the way?

One thing about Ravnica is that it is a vast world rich in culture, intrigue and history... But, I don't think I am the only one who thinks that it sucks when I have to read up on or get info dumped on such a large backstory to any kind of game, but rather be allowed to explore and learn about it at my own pace.

And that is where the Hero's journey comes in.
The Hero's journey are all of those classic stories that we all just love, like the Hobbit or Lotr saga, Star Wars, Zelda... the list goes on and on, but you get the point.

What I think we should try to do is to work on a good introductory adventure that eases players into Ravnica, one where they don't have to know so much about the world or its guilds, but allows them to explore and experience them at their own pace. I mean, Krenko's Way is fine and all, but it kinda assumes that everyone knows enough about the setting to even choose their own Guild to begin with.

So, the challenge is this, how do we create an adventure where players don't have to know much about Ravnica, but are allowed to explore as they see fit?

I.e., instead of video that explains it saying stuff like "at this point in the story, the hero encounters an adversary, or a new reality," I'm looking for, "at this point in the story, the hero enters Yesod, Foundation, because of... and encounters ... because ...," etc. I feel this is the best way for me to fully grasp the Tree, understanding it as a story, which in many ways it is.

Secondly very quick, so quick that I don't want to waste a 2nd new topic on the question even though it's very unrelated (outside of the general shared subject), is the ouroborus symbol, the serpent eating its tail in a perfect circle, a symbol for chaos, for order, or both in one symbol? And is it considered a masculine or feminine symbol? Because I've heard Jordan Peterson refer to the "Dragon of chaos" symbol, is that the exact same symbol of the ouroborus, or is the ouroborus a mixture of the chaos symbol of the dragon with the "order" of a circle?

I'm just curious. Looking at the best selling fantasy series of all time would indicate that we are definitely not tired of Hero's Journey stories, with roughly half of the top 10 being Hero's Journey stories (Hobbit, LotR, Harry Potter, WoT, etc.).

What do you think?

Im looking for this book I read a long time ago, but I can't remember for the life of me what it's called. What I can recall is that the front cover has a tiefling-esque monster with goblinesh features and a red tail. He's wearing a overcoat, and the beginning of the book goes as he narrates to the reader in 3rd person about himself. He has a lot of pride and flexes on the fact that he has a tail which is better then any third arm or likewise, and it mentions that he can polymorph his size. From what I else remember, the story begins that he lives alone in a tree, and deals with a farmhand who has struck a deal with him where he can drain blood from his cattle every couple weeks, in return that he doesn't harm his daughters nor lets other of his own kind get near them. Eventually the old farmman dies from a bull goring him, and he leaves his last wish to this monster to bring the youngest daughter to her extended family to safety, in return that he gets to keep the oldest daughter to sell off as a slave. He then goes across the land, with eldest daughter, trying to stave off other his kind so he can make it to the capital to sell her off.

I remember vaguely that at the end, he regrets that he sold her, so he returns to free her only to see that a witch had freed all the slaves in the area.

I sometimes wake up with this random inspiration/feeling that I don't need to organize and plan everything, and i can just accept life as it comes and trust my instincts. In other words, I embrace my inferior Ne. Lasts for about 10 mins before the anxiety kicks in.

What do you honestly think is better? A story of a hero starting their journey from the very beginning, or the hero starts off further but everything is explored in a backstory?

Bless her, she was so worried that she didn’t have a seat reservation and that she’d have to move, so he just blocked her seat from being reserved. Grabbed all her bits from her luggage for her too.

Can’t say I’d be looking forward to the journey on the same train to Edinburgh now at my age, let alone when I’m elderly.

EDIT: Just as an update to this, as I hate it when people don’t update these sorts of things. Received an email back from cross country today thanking me for the positive feedback and saying they’ll pass it on to the conductor’s boss (they named the conductor in the email too, so obviously worked out who it was).

For those wanting to do similar in future but are worried that they didn’t catch the person’s name, the form asks for the exact date, time and train that you were on meaning that they can easily work our who the staff were.

is QWERTY’s, he went from Shayla’s apartment to Elliot’s apartment to Angela’s apartment to Phillip price’s house and now he’s at the Washington township plant where he’ll bear witness to the final showdown between Elliot and Whiterose, our fish boi has TRAVELED 🙌

Announcement video - https://youtu.be/-q1GvQIOJbs

Investing and getting rich is hella easy and I'm here to prove it. I'm going to run an experiment investing $50 in the ideas of random strangers, with another $50 invested in my own ideas as a control. With the scientific data from this study, me and my R&D team will come up with a 67-step formula allowing absolutely anyone to achieve their deepest desires.

So /r/Drama, tell me. With startup capital of $50 or less, how would you create a source of passive income as quickly as possible? Tune in for the live stream tonight where I'll start selecting winners!

^(Note: despite my joking post for this subreddit, I am serious about this. I will make money off the best ideas suggested, and I will generously share the spoils. It won't be a petty amount. If you win I'll just keep giving you as much money as I can forever unless I don't like you for some reason... in which case I'll at least pass down $50 so you can implement your own idea.)

I've had a fantasy book idea for maybe 7 years now, and I finally hit the point where I can no longer keep it in my head. I've found some guides to getting started online, and I am pondering the themes my book will deal with. Be prepared, I'll be asking lots of questions, but first off, let me ask this

Is the idea of coming of age and the heroes journey the same thing?

I wanted to share my journey of finding my own style with you and introduce the book which has guided me on this way. I hope this is also interesting and helpful for some of you.

When I was younger, I really liked to dress up myself and had a quite colorful and expressive style. Then I had some years where I didn't care much about appearance, but lately (and also thanks to RepLadies) I started to care more for myself, my styling and my overall appearance again. I started watching lots of YouTube videos, Instagram channels and Pinterest boards on how to look chic, expensive and put together. Therefore, I eagerly bought a lot of clothes from AE and TB, mostly in beige and other neutral colors, High heels, which I never wore, and even cardigans (I hate cardigans and feel like an old witch when wearing them). I tried really hard to look like the people I've seen on Pinterest or Instagram, but wearing those clothes did not make me feel good or beautiful, but wrong and boring. Finally, I was really desperate, because I thought I cannot look chic and put together and NOT boring at the same time. So I decided to google for some books and read a lot of reviews and ended up with The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe from Anuschka Rees. It was the best decision I could have made! 😊

The best thing is that the author Anuschka is not telling you what you should wear, but really helping you to develop your very own style... but... it was a lot of work, but so worth it.

“The Curated Closet is a wardrobe that’s perfectly tailored to your unique personal style and your life. It contains everything you need to feel confident and inspired every day – no more and no less. It is not based on trends, style typologies or a one-size-fits-all list of ‘wardrobe essentials.’ Your life isn’t the same as everyone else’s, so why should your closet be?”

It really took me several months to finish all the activities you have to do in terms of finding your own style and I wrote 25 pages in Word and did a lot of shopping trips without shopping (which was quite hard).

I will give you a short description about the activities I did

1. Firstly you have to take a picture of your outfits for 14 days and analyze it (what did you like or not, why did you choose it, what do you want express with your clothes, what are your goals with this book, for what kind of events do yo

TL; DR the gear requirements are gonna be high

With chewie coming about there has been a new flame in predicting the coming of Jedi Knight Luke (JKL?)

So I hear the prediction typically being Cls Cholo Rolo Chewie Hoda

With this requirement prediction you have two characters (rolo and Hoda) that are dependent on TB and guild participation which to be blunt isn’t something CG can really monetize for panic farming. Which we all know how much CG loves to monetize events especially for OP toons

Which if CLS is any indication JKL is going to be even more broken than any character before. But most late game players can probably have all these characters without a problem and wheres the money in that?

So very likely you will need some high gear toons (g10 min) with zetas and decent mods. I was able to clear CLS with mostly g7-9 when it came out But if JKL is really as broken as people hype him up to be (which he should pretty meta defining) CG is going to have to monetize on gear grinding, and if a chewie legendary requires g10-g12 don’t be surprised when this event might require all g12 full zetas comps. That event will be the pinnacle of late game content so be warned.

Also food for thought, if Hero’s Journey 2 gets you JKL and takes place during ESB, what event do they do to follow the events in RotJ? Who does that unlock? Grand Master Luke? how do they mirror that for Rey?

See full post with images: https://loopinput.com/the-heros-journey-of-coding/

Almost universally learning to code is hard. It is hard and it is frustrating. Resources to go from 0 to 1 as a beginner are easy to find but figuring out the path from 0 to mastery are not.

The modern coding environment only complicates this as more and more options, tools, frameworks, and potential paths are invented. These options are designed to make coding more manageable, but for a beginner can be overwhelming.

My goal here is to lay out a clear, structured path from 0 to mastery I call “The Hero’s Journey of Coding.” The Hero’s Journey is hard. The Hero’s Journey will be frustrating and will feel hopeless at times. But the Hero’s Journey works.

I heavily based the strategy on research from Cal Newport (computer science professor at Georgetown University) and Barbara Oakley (professor of engineering at Oakland University), as well as on a large body of research into learning, and more specifically, learning technical subjects.

Learning to code is a non-linear process and forcing a strictly linear structure on it will slow your learning process. It is analogous to learning a language.

Two hypothetical people start studying Mandarin at the same time with no prior knowledge of the language. One begins a course that promises mastery of the language by the end of the course. The other takes the same course… but supplements it with reading books in Mandarin, watching shows in Mandarin on Netflix, speaking to Mandarin-speaking people in his or her area every day, listening to the news in Mandarin, listening to podcasts in Mandarin, memorizing Mandarin grammar structures and vocabulary words, switching to the Chinese servers in the online games they play, asking about aspects of the language that confuse them in Mandarin language forums etc.

Because the second person is varying their types, contexts, and methods of learning, they will learn Mandarin surprisingly faster than the first person while preventing burnout by altering the kind of cognitive load they place on their brain.

Additionally, since the gains are cumulative, the second person will exponentially approach mastery faster. This approach is backed by research. If you want to look into it further, Harvard has an excellent compilation of research into the topic here: https://bsc.harvard.edu/study-tips-guides

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