When Christopher Vogler, a development executive and screenwriter ... Many archetypes in the hero's journey—the threshold guardian, the herald, the shapeshifter, the trickster, the ally, and ...

Vogler was already working in Hollywood, as a story analyst, and began to see strong connections between the monomythic hero’s journey and the piles of scripts and stories he was reading day in ...

When many people set a goal, they encounter an obstacle and begin to doubt that they can really achieve that goal. What if you thought about goal setting as, by definition, an ordeal? An ordeal ...

Research published earlier this year in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology touts the benefits of reframing your life as a Hero’s Journey—a common story structure popularized by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about my journey as a first-time CEO and startup founder. While the elevator pitch certainly has its place and time, I ...

The Super Hero's Journey is a new graphic novel that serves as a true love letter to the classic Marvel Comics stories of the 1960's. It uses artwork from that era to tell a brand new story about ...

This story is now known as “The Hero’s Journey.” It is a story that begins with an ordinary man (it is almost always a man) in a recognisable world. That man typically receives a call to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Buenos Aires-based sales FilmSharks has taken international sales rights to the Chinese animated film A Hero’s Journey to the West. Made with a budget of $26M, the film is directed by ...

He called it “the hero’s journey.” Ultimately it has to do with each person’s search for the unknowable force that creates and sustains all that exists. This is expressed differently ...