Hero's Journey

able o Contents Intro

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An Ordinary World

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Call to Adventure

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Acceptance/Reusal Accep tance/Reusal o the Call

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Meeting a Mentor

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Crossing the Treshold

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Road o rials

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Supreme Ordeal

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Ultimate Boon

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Acceptance/Reusal Accep tance/Reusal o the Return

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Crossing the Return Treshold

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Master o wo Worlds

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We Live In An Ordinary World.

“Follow your bliss.” “A Hero is someone who has given his or her lie to something bigger than onesel.” -Joseph Campbell

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Campbell’s Monomyth; why every hero starts out ordinary.

 ABYSS DEATH

Revelation

REBIRTH

HOME 5 

Brings Home To Communi Community  ty 

A Hero must start ordinary to be extraordinary. A Hero must bring the spoils o his Journey home.

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As a high school reshman, I had no idea what the world may have remotely have had in store or me. I never elt out my surroundings, I was a jellysh with no way to propel mysel in the direction I wanted to go. I had no need or muscles or a skeleton because I was ed and content.

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I have been using computers since I was younger on a Windows 95 desktop. Te idea o technology has always intrigued me. When I saw the beautiully designed Mac Pro machines in my high school’s Advertising Art Classroom, I knew I had to be in that t hat class. In my Sophomore year, I was along with a new passion or the arts. I was in my elementary school’s Art Club, and I knew I was creative. Graphic Design was a oreign term to me, but now I heard it just about everyday. Te call was strong aer I won the Arizona SkillsUSA Advertising Design Competition. Te seniors in my  class were angry and I was conused, I thought there was a pecking order. I there was a pecking order, I jumped straight to the ront and got to represent our state in the skill Olympics.

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I now have a plan. A plan that will get me where I want to be.

Expectations

Goal

Me Life Unforseen Events

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Diana Cure was one o the best educators I have ever met. Well prepared, wise and a veteran to design thinking. She was the wind to my small smoke re that got me burning away and made me think. Tinking takes a certain responsibility. eaching someone to think is one o the best b est traits you could pass down to the next generation.

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I now am growing one o my avorite skills, Graphic Design and Design Tought. In the sae and highly enriched environment o Arizona State University. Te pot o Arcadia High School was much too small.

Developing For  Future Use

 Visiblee Talents  Visibl Talents

Closed Environment

ME

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“I have learned that any ool can write a bad ad, but it takes real genius to keep his hands o a good one.” -Burnett

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Losing  is  Tough

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and it gave me my doubts. I was reassured that the allknowing God Designer was dead in me the two consecutive years aer my state victory were bitter losses. I now realize that I have some work to do. My lie was not the perect advertisemen advertisement, t, I could not just continue to automaticly create brilliant works and not run into bad luck. Te thing about luck is, it can be over taken by  skill.

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It Only  Gets  Worse.

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Now in a tsunami o questioning mysel I now had the  job o working though my aults and strengthening my  abilities, not only in design, but in all respects. I have this massive thing called the internet blocking much o  my productivity and in my opinion is the most interesting thing on and o the planet and I have to worry  about this little looming milestone.

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mile·stone [mahyl-stohn] Within the ramework o project management, a milestone is the end o a stage that marks the completion o a work package or phase, typically marked by a high level event such as completion, endorsement or signing o a deliverable, deliverab le, document or a high level review meeting.

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Design is great as an occupation and a way to look at things around me, but what I aspire to is that greater calling. Greater than any career can ulll, and that is starting a amily with a mate who believes in me and can be believed in by me. A perect partnership. partnership. Tis challenge is much more difcult than a milestone in any respects and is by ar more rewarding. As I grow into my place in the world I think more and more about this person. I think about what they might do for a liv ing. ing. What is their calling? What are their wants? How can I achieve those goals with them? What are their wants and goals?

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Perect Love, being in complete sync with another person’s wants. Not even a mother can claim that with her children. So why do we tease ourselves? We are only observers, onlookers to Perect Love and complete in sync-ness. Tese are not words o discouragement, they are simply  what we are up against. Right on the wall o glass that keeps us out. We understand what it looks like, in movies or books that portray Perect Love. However, we don’t see the process, because the process has yet to exist. A lie goal I have taken on is the exploration o Love. oday it comes with a lot o negitive connotations relating to lust or superiority over someone. A main trait I believe Love brings out is the need to know every want o the other, to be in sync.

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A method is needed to organize our lie goals, this is one I explore explore.. I nd a key thing in a relationship is knowing the other person’s wants. Te Method can be used to identiy more wants. When you ask someone a question that has the ability to lie (everyone), than how do you ever know they are telling the truth or lying? Faith? Hope? Love is what we Long or, but Hope is what we Have. An action is physical, and in this starved society things t hings like sex are loaded with personal motives rather than personal expression. Knowing a person you will generally know the answer to some questions because you have asked or witnessed their actions, however to people who are completely in-sync never ask the other to do something that requires a “no”. Tus, getting closer to the Perect Love we humans deserve. Reer to “Te Method” a process of yes or urther understandin understanding. g.

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I used to believe I wouldn’t be tame. I would be a designer with a mission, and that mission wasn’t to settle down. Others might try both But they choose their career over a amily. Tat is why I choose a amily over a career now, I can invest my resources wisely and not have to choose. I pledge to literally accept my return to my amily everyday aer my rst love, design.

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When I return home to my wie and kids rom design my work is still not done. I understand this, I am sitting in my easy chair, relaxing my kids will have their aults their problems, my wie may no longer except me as a ull man and emasculate me and tell me how misbehaved our children are. She may even take them and leave me. However I will stay steadast, because I know that with each return home I can lay down my knowledge into my household. I can tell them my Journey and how they are the biggest and most important part. Tey  will know, because I constantly am seeking the goals o  protecting their well being and developing them beside me. Perect Love will be understood by them because I will demonstrate it to the best o my ability.

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DESIGN &  LIFE

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I AM  THE MASTER  OF   TWO WORLDS

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