How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be

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In Hero of a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell describes the hero’s journey this way: most of us look for a path when we enter a forest. But the hero enters the forest in its deepest and darkest place, where no one has ever entered before. And because he chooses this route, the hero has a very different experience. He faces his demons and the monster

Whenever Chris felt fear, he targeted that reaction for immediate action. He forced himself again and again to face whatever made him most afraid. As he systematically faced each fear and overcame them, Chris’ life was transformed from a wasteland of desperate avoidance to a fulfilling system of relationships and meaningful work which Chris himself