Hero: Volume 4 (Secret Library)

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You are not left unequipped when you undertake the Hero’s Journey. You were born with immensely powerful abilities within you that would enable you to realize your dreams and overcome every trial, obstacle, and challenge you would encounter. But in being born into the limited material world of planet Earth, your mind and consciousness became limited too, which meant you wouldn’t remember your true nature, and you wouldn’t remember the powerful abilities within you. You would have to discover them for yourself.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. For these reasons and more I avoid the word, and distrust the concept. I have no heroes and recognize none. 'The main character in a popular book' is good enough for me, especially if that character lights up the circuits that evolution has wired inside me. I need encouraging, empowering, emboldening and consoling, the same as anyone else. Happily there are a lot of writers who know that...All good. Except not really...There's an unthinking assumption that evolution is always progress...Who are we descended from?...The nice guys died out. By the end the human population was reduced to the nastiest handful...They would kill you as soon as look at you. My ancestors. Hopefully diluted by subsequent random mutations, but to at least some degree, and always, a part of me, and of the characters I like to read, and the characters I like to write." I listened to Hero while cleaning my room not realising it was a self-help book. I don’t think I could ever finish this book if I had read it instead. It was intriguing to follow some of the migrations of word meanings, those that make sense and are approved of by Child. And some that He obviously does not. Over all it is an interesting read, and for the price of the eBook worth it.

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I am a bit disappointed and dissatisfied with this book. I will be the first to admit I bought this because it was written by Lee Childs. It is probably my own fault for not finding out what the book was about. Her new book, Hero, like most of her previous books, is simple enough. It follows twelve of the world's most successful men and women, sharing their wisdom and insight. It shows the readers how they can also be heroes, and that the secret to being a hero may just lie within them, waiting to be released. It shows how one can be triumphant and the secret to become prosperous is solely within oneself.

Along with our family and our relationships, the job we do is one of the most important parts of our life. It's certainly somewhere you spend most of your waking hours, so it should be something enjoyable; it should be something that you are passionate about and that you care about. Opportunities are in front of everybody every day. It's almost like a train station; everybody is in the station, there are trains that stop in front of people, but they have their eyes closed. They don't have their eyes open to see and get onto that train. Opportunities are everywhere. HERO is predominately the ideas of Joseph Campbell and "The Hero's Journey" and there is a strong emphasis on entrepreneurism. I also notice some similarities with Mormonism and "The Great Plan of Happiness". This book is certainly inspiring & encouraging, but one of the weaker books in The Secret Series. All the contributors in this book are either athletes or entrepreneurs which may limit some readers' connection to the message.In the end, what we make of this life all comes down to interpretation. It's the story we tell ourselves about who we are and why we're here that determines the quality of our experience . The good news is, you can change that story any time, for you are and always will be the sole author of your life

What do you want? Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one. And it’s this world with its equal potential for great joy, great love, great challenges, and great suffering that you wanted to come to. It’s you who wanted to come here and experience the adventure of living in such a beautiful but challenging place. It’s you who were determined that there was no difficulty so great it would stop you from discovering the hero within you. It’s you who wanted to take the Hero’s Journey… for you are the hero of this story.I had been ignoring this book because Lee Child’s fiction isn’t something that I’ve ever been interested in. However, I recently read David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count, published by TLS and realised that this book was published in the same line. Pete Carroll dreamed of doing only one thing with his life – playing sports and having a career playing professionally. But that dream was cut short when he failed to make the grade in the National Football League. It left Pete with no idea what he would do with his skills or his life – until he realized that his dream could still come true, but in a way he’d never thought of. Pete became a football coach, and although his journey of professional coaching was full of ups and downs, he emerged to become one of the most inspirational American football coaches of all time, and was recently awarded the NFC coach of the year of the Seattle Seahawks. Michael Acton Smith Michael Acton Smith – from England But perhaps I should have paid closer attention during that interview, when Child told me he'd never really aspired to become a writer; that he only wanted to be an entertainer. It hinted that Reacher might have been less the product of burning inner passion than of cool market calculation. So did Child's willingness, much later, to allow the diminutive-but-bankable Tom Cruise to portray his crusading Goliath on screen, despite the fact Cruise's stature clashed laughably with the long-established public image of the giant character -- which ignited an angry rebellion among Reacher's most devoted fans. So did my uncomfortable impression, shared by some exceptional fellow-authors, that in several recent books Child has been "mailing it in" (as one of them put it). Now here is Lee Child, inventor of an iconic folk hero, writing a "book" purporting to tell us all about "The Hero" -- but instead informing us, in his closing sentences, not only that the "hero" concept is applied too promiscuously, but that it is a bogus concept to be discarded. Since then, we have prided ourselves on being the world’s leading magazine for culture and ideas. Our guiding principle for the selection of pieces remains the same as it ever has been: is it interesting; and is it beautifully written? Over the years, our contributors have included the very best writers and thinkers in the world: from Virginia Woolf to Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath to Susan Sontag, Milan Kundera to Christopher Hitchens, Patricia Highsmith to Martin Scorsese.”