Friday, November 9, 2007

Archetype : Hero

The Hero archetype, as identified by Strauss and Howe in The Fourth Turning, experiences --
  • Reputation as child: good
  • Coming of age: empowering
  • Coming of age focus: outer world
  • Young adulthood: building
  • Trans in midlife: energetic to hubristic
  • Leadership style entering elderhood: collegial, expansive
  • Reputation as elder: powerful
  • Treatment as elder: rewarded
  • How they are nurtured: tightening
  • How they nurture: relaxing
  • Position: Third in the cycle, dominant
  • Positive reputation: selfless, rational, competent
  • Negative reputation: unreflective, mechanistic, overbold
  • Endowments: community, affluence, technology

Today's Heroes are Millennials.
  • Born 1982 – 2002?
  • 79.2 million in 2005 (U.S.)
  • Ages in 2007: 5?-25
  • American Hero generations have been Arthurian, Elizabethan, Glorious, Republican, G.I. and (now) Millennial
Books to help you understand the Hero Archetype:

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