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How To Tell a Story Worth Hearing with Matthew Dicks

The Long Game

CHAPTER

The Hero's Journey Resonates So Much in Pop Culture

The hero's journey is a convenient way for our brains to process a story, particularly if we want to tell the story about a hero. Harry potter, luke skywalker, you know, prodo. These are people we want to root for. It makes sense that this sort of pattern works, or this structure works, in a fictional realm. People find great comfort in the idea that the police are going to show up at ascene and they're going to find a dead body.

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