A speaker shares how being shot in 2017 affected him less than the events of 2019. He frames both experiences through the lens of a hero's journey, exploring what actually broke him and how he recovered.
So I got shot in 2017 and 2019, it imploded. But by my choice, I fired my Hollywood agent.
I was gonna say, like, how did. How is. How's 2019 worse than getting shot in 2017? So I'm curious to hear the rest of the story.
2017 was the moment. It was like the catalyst. Like in every great story, there's an inciting incident, and then the hero needs to decide, what do you take of this? If you read any book, if you watch any movie of superheroes, there's always, like, an inciting incident. And it's usually a bad thing. It's usually like, something that the hero doesn't know how to control, or they don't know what to do with this, or it's something completely out of their hands. And then a hero is somebody that can take that inciting incident and grow from it and learn from it. And I didn't know any of this either at the time. Now I study storytelling so I could be like, wow. Getting shot was not the story. Getting shot was the inciting incident. Everything that came next was actually the story. And usually in a hero's journey, there's the moment where, you know, this thing happens to them, and then they recover and they think they're good, and then, like, spirits are high. And then. Actually, that wasn't even the hardest part. And then something knocks them down even worse than when they actually got the inciting incident. And then them crawling out of that hole is what happens next. So 2019 was that moment for me where a lot of things have had happened. I was still with my old business partner.
