Look: One of my new favorite sources of wisdom and insight when I have limited time is the altogether well done School of Life and their History of Ideas videos. Having experienced failure before and hoping that those failures might amount to a least of bit of wisdom and insight of my own, I was very delighted to watch SOL’s History of Failure – a fascinating look at how societies throughout the ages have looked upon failure and what we can learn from them.
Listen: Okay, as you’ll read below, I’m hardly a fan of the new Star Wars, but the hero’s journey, first illuminated by the mythologist Joseph Campbell, upon which George Lucas built his original tale, is utterly fascinating stuff. Hear how Campbell, Lucas and a host of other speakers use the mythic ideas of the hero’s journey to better understand their own lives and how to successfully navigate the labyrinth of life, slay our dragons and return home victorious.Read: I saw the new Star Wars movie and I am not a fan of the latest installment. I think it is terrible for so many reasons (spoiler alert), that I’m questioning the sanity of much of the world, that any critic—any cognitive human—above the age of 9 could think The Force Awakens to be anything but complete rubbish. Oy vey! All of which got me wondering, besides the movie critic for the Vatican Paper—yes, there is such a thing—what are critics and fans outside the US saying about the latest installment in the Star Wars series? Do tell!
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