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People have always asked me, Raam, if I want to write a book about my personal journey. So, what are the different ways to do it?  Most people think there’s only one way: to give a chronological account, like a diary. No, there are many different ways to narrate your journey and various frameworks to do it from different angles. Let’s explore a few of those frameworks and angles in this personal journey book about your personal journey. Let’s start with the most versatile personal journey framework, The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey The Hero’s Journey is a limitless story structure that follows a protagonist on an unforeseen quest where they face challenges, gain insights, and return home completely transformed. The Hero’s journey, also known as the monomyth, is a story structure in which a hero goes on a quest or adventure to achieve a goal and must overcome obstacles and fears before ultimately returning home wholly transformed. This narrative arc has been present in various forms across cultures for centuries, if not longer, but it gained popularity through Joseph Campbell’s mythology book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. While Campbell identified 17 story beats in his monomyth definition, this modified version, what you see on the screen, is a twelve-step framework popularized in 2007 by screenwriter Christopher Vogler. Examples In his book The Writer’s Journey. And here are some exciting popular movies based on the Hero’s journey. You will recognize some of them, I’m sure. The Lion King, for example. Or Star Wars, Finding Nemo, Kung Fu Panda, the Matrix, and Hindi movies like Lagaan or Munna Bhai These movies use the framework, and books can be written using this framework. In fact, at Stardom Books, we use this framework to write books from this angle. But there are other angles as well, including people’s stories. People Stories In this type of angle or book, you tell stories of different people in your life and how they relate to you. It could be the story of, let’s say, 5,7,10 people who have come into your life and how you interacted with them. That could be the main focus of your book. It could also be about my influencer or my teachers, my gurus, my mentors, kind of a book. You can document or tell people about how various people influenced you or shaped your journey. And you talk about these people in your book. Just these people, nothing else. Life Events This is a fascinating book. It can become an exciting book as well. Incidents are events that happened in your life that have impacted you both positively and negatively. So that could be an entire book. It could be a book about you, and that could be your personal journey book as well. It’s one of the frameworks. Number Of Values Next: What are your, let’s say, three or five or seven or n number of values that you believe in, and how did you acquire them? For example, honesty, integrity, courage, compassion, leadership, loyalty, authenticity, […]https://raamanand.com/insights/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Personal-Journey-Blog-Post-1-1024x1024.png