Episode 062 – Adam Berger, Part 3

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So far, we’ve talked about Adam’s time working at Walt Disney World, how and why he started doing so, and how that set him up for what he’s doing now as a show writer, his work as a show writer, and quite a bit about his book, and about the Hero’s Journey.

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In this episode Adam talks about:

• A hypothetical example of the real-life Hero’s Journeys of the first generation of Imagineers;
• How there can be multiple Supreme Ordeals in a single journey;
• One of the best example of the Hero’s Journey in the parks—Mission: Space;
• Is the Magic Carpets of Aladdin ride (in Walt Disney World) a Hero’s Journey;
• Walking through a possible way to understand the new Seven Dwarfs’ Mine Train as a Hero’s Journey—this includes a bit of a spoiler, by the way;
• Book-report rides vs. other types of attractions, what those are and which kind he’d most prefer to work on;
• Tips for you if you want to become more aware of mythic storytelling in the Disney parks;
• Moving beyond the parks, how the Hero’s Journey perspective can help in your daily life;
• What he never gets asked that he wishes someone would ask him;
• What inspires him;
• His advice to you for following—or finding—your dream;
• Shameless Plug Time;
• What else there is in the book besides the Hero’s Journey.

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