I felt a heartfelt happiness when our class saw a video about Joseph Campbell and his wisdom since 《The Power of Myth》 is a book that shapes my view towards myself even the world. Moreover, when I went through my past note of the book, I found some ideas that are surprisingly connected to our class. Therefore, I’m trying to compare knowledge comes from our classes with Campbell’s thought in a organized structure.
Everyone are born to be heroes
Life is a journey of finding yourself, being true to yourself and getting in touch with yourself.
Similar to the first and second step of decision-making, when Campbell mentioned “get in touch with yourself”, it means understanding the human nature which is shared by whole human beings as well as exploring your unique personalities. “It’s quite possible to be so influenced by the ideals and commands of your neighborhood that you don’t know what you really …show more content…
When I read this sentence, I can’t stop thinking about the conversation between Tom Shadyac and Daniel. I remember that Daniel expressed her disappointment and inability when her friends couldn’t “do the right thing”(I can’t remember the correct sentence), she asked Tom if he had some advice that can help her change her friends. Tom’s response was so thought-provoking, he told Daniel, “Don’t judge people, don’t try to control people’s mind.” That’s correct, controlling others is impossible and dangerous, judging people indicates that you treat yourself are on a higher-level than the other. Furthermore, when we are trying to change the other people, we are violating the principle of freedom and equality in certain degree. I realized that some of my behaviors were inappropriate as well, perhaps I have empathy and goodness when my friends come to me for help, but I cannot actually force them to follow my advice, the only thing I can do is showing myself to them and making effort to stand on their
Everyone are born to be heroes
Life is a journey of finding yourself, being true to yourself and getting in touch with yourself.
Similar to the first and second step of decision-making, when Campbell mentioned “get in touch with yourself”, it means understanding the human nature which is shared by whole human beings as well as exploring your unique personalities. “It’s quite possible to be so influenced by the ideals and commands of your neighborhood that you don’t know what you really …show more content…
When I read this sentence, I can’t stop thinking about the conversation between Tom Shadyac and Daniel. I remember that Daniel expressed her disappointment and inability when her friends couldn’t “do the right thing”(I can’t remember the correct sentence), she asked Tom if he had some advice that can help her change her friends. Tom’s response was so thought-provoking, he told Daniel, “Don’t judge people, don’t try to control people’s mind.” That’s correct, controlling others is impossible and dangerous, judging people indicates that you treat yourself are on a higher-level than the other. Furthermore, when we are trying to change the other people, we are violating the principle of freedom and equality in certain degree. I realized that some of my behaviors were inappropriate as well, perhaps I have empathy and goodness when my friends come to me for help, but I cannot actually force them to follow my advice, the only thing I can do is showing myself to them and making effort to stand on their