Resilience and Courage Through Story: Finding Your Mentor

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In an age of information overload, we need, more than ever, to find someone to help us make sense of it all. But there are self-proclaimed experts, life coaches, and just plain hucksters everywhere! What're we to do? Well, maybe we need to take a page out of Russian fairy tales. Just as Ivan the Prince found his frog princess in a swamp, our answers just might be found in the place we least expect... In this video, I talk about expert fatigue, about our desire to optimize everything and how it might be impacting our lives negatively, and how stories teach us the proper way of working on ourselves, so that when the mentor we need does show up, we're ready to listen. Timestamps 00:01:30 - Introduction 00:04:57 - Mentors in Stories 00:07:00 - Do We Really Need Mentors? 00:10:06 - When Experts Fail 00:15:00 - How to Find Your Mentor: Step 1 00:19:42 - How to Find Your Mentor: Step 2 00:24:22 - How to Find Your Mentor: Step 3 00:27:48 - If You Can't Find Your Mentor, Do This 00:30:57 - An Example 00:34:05 - Summing it Up 00:35:38 - Read Like This ABOUT ME I’m Nicholas Kotar. I write epic fantasy and science fiction inspired by Slavic fairy tales. You can find my books at Waystone Press, an independent publisher that partners with award-winning illustrators to craft artisanal books for lovers of fair... === Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6hGiBqOJc Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Wed Jul 10 18:26:23 2024 Available for 30 days after download