Section 1, Lesson 1: Make Your Life A Story Worth Telling

The first lesson of the Game of Heroic Meaning: an introduction, six episodes and a coaching session for each. You go through it working with Mark, applying each episode in one real project in your life.

1. Introduction
   0-0-1A Quick Introduction to the Game of Heroic MeaningWhat the game is: approaching your projects, your relationships and your life as a whole as a game whose goal is increasingly heroic meaning - more prosperity, more pleasure, more purpose.Watch now
2. Coaching session
   1-1-0Foundation: Make Your Life A Story Worth TellingThe foundation coaching session: how to play the game in your own life, and how to set up the main project you will play it in.Watch now
3. Episode
   1-1-1Heroic Meaning Is The Name Of The GameLife approached as a game you play to win by creating increasingly meaningful experiences. Meaning is always relative to a story: an event matters to the degree it changes how a story you care about unfolds. The goal is more heaven, less hell - and you are the author of the story.With Mark
4. Coaching session
   1-1-1Integration Session: GameCoaching session and exercises for episode 1-1-1: putting the game frame to work in your own life.With Mark
5. Episode
   1-1-2A Herculean Task Of Empowerment And Inspiration: Author, Audience, ActorHow people create meaning, and how to tell empowering and inspiring stories. It starts with leading yourself, because that is where you have the most leverage, and the same principles then carry over to everyone you lead.With Mark
6. Coaching session
   1-1-2Integration Session: StoriesCoaching session and exercises for episode 1-1-2: the stories you tell about your life.With Mark
7. Episode
   1-1-3Make The Heroic Choice: Take Responsibility, Not To Be A VictimAre you a victim of your circumstances, or responsible for making the best of them? The costs and payoffs of victim stories versus responsibility stories, and why choosing responsibility is the heroic choice - confronting the hard parts of life head on.With Mark
8. Coaching session
   1-1-3Integration Session: ResponsibilityCoaching session and exercises for episode 1-1-3: practicing the heroic choice.With Mark
9. Episode
   1-1-4Take A Heroic Stance In Your Dance With RealityA radical shift in perspective: from focusing on what you are going to do in your life to how you author it. If an author were telling the story of your life, what story would you want told - and how will you tell it from here?With Mark
10. Coaching session
    1-1-4Integration Session: StanceCoaching session and exercises for episode 1-1-4: taking the author's stance.With Mark
11. Episode
    1-1-5On Track, On Fire, On Purpose: Meaning As The Ultimate Power-UpMeaning works like a power-up: the more you care, the more each step of progress both satisfies and motivates. The difference between happiness and meaning, between heavenly and hellish meaning, and why villainous meaning is a trap that also powers people up.With Mark
12. Coaching session
    1-1-5Integration Session: Power-UpsCoaching session and exercises for episode 1-1-5: finding the meaning that powers you up.With Mark
13. Episode
    1-1-6Tell Stories That Make You A Better StorytellerThe final episode of the first lesson puts the first five together into one map: the master skill for an epic life, and the meta-master skill that creates unlimited potential - telling stories that make you a better storyteller.With Mark
14. Coaching session
    1-1-6Integration Session: The Meta-Master SkillCoaching session and exercises for episode 1-1-6: practicing the meta-master skill.With Mark