Heroism Science!

HEROISM SCIENCE!


So, I recently found out about HEROISM SCIENCE !

And: Wow! It's - terrific !!!

The Heroism Science websiteThe website above has links to the Journal of Heroism Science , (open access! YAY!) where you can read much more. Fantastic stuff.

See also - this great presentation by one of the (heroic!) founders of Heroism Science: Olivia Efthimiou!


More of Olivia's great work, here, and here.


And - another great talk by another founder: Prof. Scott Allison!


The Rise of the Art and Science of Heroism Science!
Scott notes (see 6-7 mins, of the above keynote by Scott) that Joe Campbell (who discovered the hero journey monomyth, 1949 ) believed that biological processes of the body are what produce hero mythology...

My intuition likewise tells me that The Philosophy of Biology has a lot to teach us about Heroism Science... and hero mythology... Fascinating stuff-!!! In fact I blogged on it, on my PhD blog, a few years ago...

The Hero's Journey - It's Not What You Think! (Velikovsky 2013)

And, that article was actually then (re)-published in this great book: Miller's Compendium of Timeless Tools For the Modern Writer  (2015) ...But - that's a whole other story.
(See what I did there. A whole other story... a book about: writing stories, and,,, er, never mind.)

And - see also Scott Allison's great Heroes (& Heroic Leadership) blog:


And see Scott's (and George's and Rod's) great new book:


I love Chapter 20 - The Hero's Transformation (by Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals)
i.e.:(...I think about scale ...a lot!)And see also Matt Langdon's great work - at the Hero Construction Co .


Below is a TEDx talk Matt did. (the sound level is a little low, so... listen up! hehe)

And check out Phil Zimbardo on: Everyday Heroes!


(Particularly on: The `Whistleblower' Heroes!
And, The (related) Bystander Effect (in Social Psychology) -
Namely, when things go wrong, people tend to stand by and watch, BUT - as soon as someone leaps in - and takes action - and DOES THE RIGHT THING, everybody follows!
But... So - who's going to make the first move?

...BE A HERO! MAKE IT: YOU! 
i.e., Feel the fear - and do it anyway...!!!  )

See also Phil's nonprofit organisation: The Heroic Imagination Project


Also - speaking as a million-selling videogame designer (very few games sell a million copies) I found this talk by Phil both fascinating and enlightening...!


And see Dr Clive Williams' great work at:  A MudMap For Living: Discovering Your Hero's Journey.



A great talk Clive gave...


See also - Clive's great book!


So - HEROISM SCIENCE !!!
What a great idea ( ! )

More on Consilience, here...

Heroism + Science! (And - The Arts!)
Creativity - combine two old things to get a new thing - and:  EUREKA! It WORKS!!!

`Ultimately, all creative products have this quality: old ideas or elements are combined in new ways.
This is the case for all domains of creativity.’
(Martindale, 1989, p. 212).

And this (Transmedia) show certainly now has a new resonance...(!)


Top Ten HEROES Characters
Anyway - loads more resources on HEROISM SCIENCE, here!

Also - (as a volunteer firefighter) I also really liked this diagram: ( Intervention and Immediate Risk - from Twitter @MrHeroSupport)


And see also The Hero Roundtable - `Often called the TED Talks of heroism, the Hero Round Table teaches people how to be more than a bystander. '



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-----------------------------Dr. Joe T. Velikovsky, Ph.D. (Communication & Media Arts)

`The word communication will be used here in a very broad sense to include all of the procedures by which one mind may affect another. This, of course, involves not only written and oral speech, but also music, the pictorial arts, the theater, the ballet, and in fact all human behavior... The language of this memorandum will often appear to refer to the special, but still very broad and important, field of the communication of speech; but practically everything said applies equally well to music of any sort, and to still or moving pictures, as in television." - The Mathematical Theory of Communication, (Shannon & Weaver 1949, pp. 3-4).

& Transmedia Writer-Director-Producer:
Movies, Games, TV, Theatre, Books, Comics
Transmedia Writing Blog: http://on-writering.blogspot.com.au/

& Bio-Culture (Science & the Arts) & Transmedia Researcher
Academia link: https://aftrs.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky

& (High-RoI) Story/Screenplay/Movie Analyst and Evolutionary Systems Theorist
See: https://storyality.wordpress.com/

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