Generations of the Hero archetype, for example, always grow up as protected children, come of age as team-working young achievers during a Crisis, demonstrate hubris as confident midlifers, and age into the engaged, powerful elders who preside over the next Awakening. This archetype fits the G.I. Generation, sometimes called the “greatest generation,” as G.I.s moved from their mid-twenties in 1940, to their mid-forties in 1960, to their mid-sixties in 1980.
