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Search for the hero inside yourself

By Colleen Guy (January 2008 Issue)
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People today are more open to ideas relating to self-actualisation, self-fulfilment and self-empowerment than they have ever been.

Of course, there have always been ambitious people who’ve been willing to work around the clock, sundial or hourglass to forge a better life for themselves and their families. But often, in the past, these people were the exception rather than the rule. People generally accepted, or felt obliged to accept, who they were and the circumstances of their birth, rather than seeing their lives as a never-ending quest to fulfil their potential.

Too much of human history has been, for most people, a time of squashed ambitions, quenched hopes and frequent personal despair. People were urged by the prevailing culture and by churches to ‘know their place’, and perhaps not just for self-serving reasons: after all, why awaken fierce individualism if the economic situation provides few real opportunities for ambitious people?

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