Finding Joe | movie | 2011 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00 The most important thing that myths teach us is to go beyond the limits of our possibility.

00:10 Joseph Campbell was one of the leading mythology experts of all time.

00:14 He diagrammed all of our stories.

00:17 He finds this one story within all the stories that we can relate to no matter where you

00:23 come from.

00:24 And he called it the hero's journey.

00:26 All the heroes, all the villains, they're all in there because they're all in here.

00:29 This is where they come from.

00:30 In other words, we're not separate from the characters we see in our movies and in our

00:35 novels.

00:36 They are us.

00:37 It's one journey.

00:40 If this path to the hero's journey is fairly simple, why then is it that everybody isn't

00:44 living it?

00:45 It's very difficult for a person with the media, with advertising.

00:49 There's no creativity.

00:51 You end up on that treadmill and you can't get off.

00:55 We are each our own greatest inhibitors.

00:57 The one thing that keeps people small is their fears, or as Campbell says, is their dragons.

01:02 It's a beast.

01:03 It's a monster.

01:04 I'll never forget seeing the ramp and this wave of fear just crashed over me.

01:11 It's going from an unsatisfying life to a satisfying life by pushing through the scariest

01:17 things you can imagine.

01:19 I think people wake up to the fact that they're the hero of their own life when they get tired

01:24 of being the victim of it.

01:26 This idea that our greatest selves are still hidden and that what we do with our lives

01:32 is what makes us heroes.

01:35 Once I saw what was possible with a skateboard in your hand, I had to keep going.

01:39 I mean, I just wanted to fly.

01:43 This is it.

01:44 This is what happens when we follow our bliss.

01:45 Magical things happen that we couldn't have imagined.

01:49 Do something that gives you that moment.

01:52 If you can do that, then you can achieve the impossible.

01:56 The great obstacle for most of us is ourselves.

01:59 If we can overcome that basic fear, in Campbell's terms, we can all be heroes.

02:03 [Music]

02:09 (upbeat music)