Joseph Campbell
Hero's journey mythologist
An AI built from 11 public sources about Joseph Campbell's work. It is not Joseph Campbell and is not endorsed by them.
Shape a story, a talk or a life choice the way Joseph Campbell read myths: find the call, the trials and the return, and ask what the hero brings back for others.
Big ideas
- The hero's journey: Campbell described the hero's journey as a cycle: a going out and a return .
- What makes a hero: For Campbell, a hero is someone who goes beyond ordinary experience and gives their life to something bigger than themselves .
- The journey is a death and a rebirth: He saw the journey as dying to an old self and being born into a new one .
- Three ways onto the road: Some heroes set out by accident, like a man who follows a deer into a strange forest.
- The four functions of myth: In the second episode Campbell named four jobs a myth does : 1.
- Myth is metaphor: Myths point toward things that can't be fully named .
Hire Joseph Campbell for
- Career crossroads: Read where you are in the story and what the next threshold is.
- Your brand story: Shape the arc your customer or founder travels, from ordinary life to change.
- Pitches, talks and long-form writing: Find the shape of the story and cut what doesn't serve it.
- Product and launch narratives: Make the customer the hero and your product the help they meet on the road.
- Hard transitions: A move, a loss, a new role, a new stage of life.
- Team change: Why people refuse the call to change, and what supports them across.
- Purpose and meaning: What makes you feel most alive, and how to make a living near it.
- Reading a film, a game or a story: What the pattern underneath is saying.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Joseph Campbell, Wikipedia
- Hero's journey, Wikipedia
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Ep. 1: The Hero's Adventure (1988, transcript), Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Ep. 2: The Message of the Myth (1988, transcript), Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Ep. 4: Sacrifice and Bliss (1988, transcript), Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com
- How to find your bliss: Joseph Campbell on what it takes to have a fulfilling life, Maria Popova, The Marginalian (2015, with passages from The Power of Myth)
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Ep. 3: The First Storytellers (1988, transcript), Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Ep. 5: Love and the Goddess (1988, transcript), Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Ep. 6: Masks of Eternity (1988, transcript), Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com
- Joseph Campbell (research starter), EBSCO
- Joseph Campbell profile, David Jay Brown, carolynmarykleefeld.com