The main thing in life is to keep the main thing the main thing.*
Ryan Holiday
Fashioning a personal myth is not an exercise in narcissistic delusion, or a paranoid attempt tp establish oneself as God. Instead, defining the self through myth may be seen as an ongoing act of psychological and social responsibility.**
Dan McAdams
A myth comes to our aid,
Carrying us beyond ourselves
to others.
Whilst stories tend to follow
our lives, myths more often
lead with intent.
Their images of journey
and special-world^ language hold us to
our true Self.
What’s your main thing?
What’s your intention?
What’s your myth?
I have always thought of a myth as something that never was but is always happening.^
*Ryan Holiday’s Discipline Is Destiny;
**Dan McAdams’ The Stories We Live By;
^In Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, the protagonist crosses from the ordinary world into a special world of threat and challenge that is the making of them, identifying the boon for others they return with;
^^Jean Houston’s The Possible Human.
THIN|SILENCE 