Benjamin (Ben) Rogers
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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Yes, the legacy is this idea of making some sort of positive impact.
And in a lot of hero's journeys, people might think that it ends where they become transformed, they gain some magical superpowers, and they defeat their enemy.
But most of those stories don't end right there.
They actually go on a little bit longer to show how the hero goes back to their home community to share either literal or metaphorical treasures with those around them.
They often repair relationships that they had.
They help people with whether that's the new depth of character or their new powers.
They're able to give back in a really profound way to show that, yes, you've transformed personally, but that also can transform the communities around us.
Yes, so in the books, Frodo ends up going back and helping to restore the Shire.
So as a result of the events that transpire in the story, the Shire is destroyed or at least put in terms of really bad circumstances.
And so Frodo actually returns back to his homeland at the end to help restore his homeland and sort of rescue his fellow hobbits.
We surveyed a number of people and we collected a lot of life stories.
And like all psychological constructs, there's a heavy degree of variability where some people are very high on the hero's journey.
They see the elements of the hero's journey in their own lives or they tell their story often featuring a lot of these elements.
But also some people don't.
Some people say in their stories, I don't see my story in that way.
I have lived an unremarkable life.
Or they write on a questionnaire that we have that they don't feel like those elements of the hero's journey are heavily present in their lives.
Yes, we asked a series of different questions, but the main one that we were focused on and what we saw repeated time and time again in our studies was that the people who either saw their life as a hero's journey or told their story naturally as a hero's journey, those were the people who also reported feeling like their lives were highly meaningful.
They had a lot of meaning in their life in terms of their life felt significant, it felt purposeful, felt very coherent.
And this was exciting to us to find that the way that you see your life story or the way that you might naturally tell it seemed to have this profound impact on the types of attitudes that people carry around with them in terms of their mental well-being.
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