On being a hero. Don't try to be a hero. It's not a title you can claim for yourself anyway. This course is intended to teach you to stop trying so hard to be someone you're not, or to become something that you don't know if it even exists. This process can free up the energy you've spent striving to be liked or protecting yourself from vulnerability or grasping for control, to give up that energy, in lieu of more creative endeavors, to make space for more creative endeavors. Once that reactive energy is freed up, you can use it to slow down, stay steady, and bring your best self out to be seen. This is easy to say and hard to do. It's paradoxical, it leaves us with all sorts of how questions. How do I stop trying so hard to be liked while staying responsive to the people around me? How do I stay motivated without letting fear drive the ship? How do I hold myself accountable to my values while letting go of control? How do I be myself when the world wants me to be someone else? How do I even know what being myself feels like? Who am I? These questions are the number one reason I define the work you are about to take on a spiritual work. These are fundamentally the big existential questions of life in our times. There are many paths to live this out. And there are many traps that can keep us from doing so. We can find ourselves deeply misaligned from our best selves. And yet tempted into thinking we are leading because we perceive our actions are pleasing people in gaining us power and receiving accolades and having an influence. Our best efforts will be spent trying to develop honest relationships with ourselves and with others as we align our actions to our best selves and seek to bring others to the table to do the same. In taking on this work of honest relationships with ourselves and others, slowly, I believe we discover that we are already the heroes of our own stories, that there is nothing to strive for or to become, we already are. And slowly over time, if we stick to this path, we inevitably get to let our own magic impact others along the way.