The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth

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Many people struggle throughout their lives, unable to identify the source of great inner existential discontent. No matter their material comfort or good fortune, they cannot escape the idea that they do not live the lives they ought to. They are not in environments that support their deepest personal growth and development. They are not the people they feel they are meant to be, and the world never works the way they know it could.

Every day, exceptional minds like these begin to suspect that the way they operate is different than the norm. They realize early on that they have profound capacities for original insight, feeling, action, choice, and meaning. But without mentoring guidance or a sense of social belonging, they feel lost—alone and alienated in their individuality.

What can we do to better understand the hidden parts of ourselves, to prevent our uncommon personal growth and development from becoming bridled by pressures toward the conventional? How can we learn to identify and embody the heroic values that matter most to us? The answer lies in deep personal inquiry about the shared existential strengths and limitations that define us, including how to apply them to our self-improvement in an incompatible world.

The Heroic and Exceptional Minority is an audacious call to self-development for men, women, and teens plagued by mythological doubt, who feel stuck in a mediocre environment and an unheroic era. Its premise is timeless, clear, and simple: The only way to understand oneself, realize our potential, and change the world for the better is to embrace who and what we really are.

From the Author

Gregory V. Diehl is a personal development mentor whose ideals include self-inquiry, challenge, and analysis for the purpose of helping people to discover who they are.

From the Back Cover

What Does It Mean to Be Heroic and Exceptional?
 
A heroic person seeks to know himself and, by extension, what will grant meaning to his experience of life so that he may determine his own destiny. A heroic person nurtures potential related to the values he discovers within himself wherever he finds it, defending it against degradation or attack because how he affects other people and his environment is important.

An exceptional person has prominent personality traits not well-represented in his environment. He is extra-humanly abled in a domain of thought, perception, or action and so cannot effectively be categorized the same as his peers. It is the rare and unfortunate combining of these qualities in an individual that produces great despair but also accomplishment should that despair be overcome.
 

What about Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth?

Mythology is how we make sense out of reality, including our place in it. It’s how we organize and understand the world in meaningful ways. In short, it’s how we make a manageable degree of order out of endless chaos.

There are many who struggle because they feel that they are lacking an appropriate sense of mythology about who they are, how the world works, and how they can live within it. This book will examine some of their deepest beliefs about their identities and encourage them to develop virtuous strengths of character that will serve them throughout life.

About the Author

Gregory V. Diehl is a personal development mentor whose ideals include self-inquiry, challenge, and analysis for the purpose of helping people to discover who they are. He writes to assist others in undoing faulty narratives about who they are and how life works so that they may begin to make more meaningful choices and resolve their deepest burdens. Diehl spent many years studying cultures around the world. He now lives a quiet life in a rural village in Armenia with his cats, books, and music.