Surprisingly, inside each of us, four characters share territory: the victim, the villain, the hero, and the guide. Making this discovery, Donald Miller, the author of three New York Times bestsellers, created a program for understanding and transforming life. According to it, you must first determine which character currently owns your personality, leave or replace it, and then write a new life script with the chosen character in the leading role. Thus, through his method, Miller was able to overcome depression, fill his existence with meaning, and finally free himself from the fear of the future. The system described in this book includes: - an impartial analysis of one's inner roles; - a creative approach to goal setting; - engaging planning akin to creating a movie script; - maximum sincerity in working with a personal journal. REVIEW I have read quite a bit on the topic of self-development, but this integral approach is something I am seeing for the first time. In his methodology, the author combined Eric Berne's concepts, the Karpman triangle, the foundations of storytelling, and seasoned it with an inspiring personal story. It turned out great! Several times during the reading, I seemed to freeze in realization, feeling This is about me and I am grateful to the author for these valuable moments. — Ainur Zinnatullin, personal coach in public speaking, TV presenter, writer. QUOTES: In life, you can begin to see meaning if you organize it. Meaning is not an idea you can agree or disagree with. It is a feeling that comes to you when you live like a hero on a mission. And it cannot be experienced without taking action, without living the story. Manipulative leaders try to convince you that you are not responsible for your own problems and that if you trust them or their ideology, everything will be fine. What if instead of writing our stories, God created sunsets and sunrises, oceans and deserts, love and different weather, and then handed authorship over to us, so we could write everything else ourselves?
