Wolfgang Hammer

This is also a huge advantage that the Americans have over the Europeans.

Failure in Europe is so shameful.

And then America is more forgiving, obviously, on the margins.

And sometimes you think, oh, wow, this is a level of heedlessness that perhaps is a little irresponsible.

But yeah, I think risk is inherent, sort of the end stage of this kind of transformation that you talk about.

When you have figured out your ultimate concern, you've figured out that there are going to be barriers.

You can kind of name the barriers even.

You gain self-knowledge.

You realize that through action, there's power even just in the action itself, even though it doesn't actually yield anything immediately.

And then action begets action, which begets courage.

The mind obviously is very good at projecting into the future and can imagine really anything.

And in many ways, what is possible, even emanating from our own subconscious, is so much bigger than what the left hemisphere brain, the rational analytical brain can handle.

So I think there is a fear of the bigness of the world.

That fear of the bigness of the world is also reflected in the inner world.

So much of story is actually an inner transformation.

When you have infinite potential in the outer world, this potential is probably also

inside of you and it's overwhelming so fear is present but it's a fear of potential of all that could be so you think fearing greatness is like the ultimate fear

I think fearing greatness, as long as we define greatness as a manifold, a flourishing of life in all its forms, not just a great engineer or a great company builder.

If we believe, as I do, that storytelling, especially for the course of, you know, from Gilgamesh all the way to now, is thousands of years of storytelling and myth-making.

that we have thoroughly enjoyed people realizing potential in the world, that there is an inner drive to reach one's potential.