Introspection – The Hero’s Journey –

“The Hero’s Journey”

1. The Ordinary World
2. The Call to Adventure
3. The Refusal of the Call
4. Meeting with the mentor
5. Crossing the Threshold
6. Tests, allies and enemies
7. The approach to the cave
8. The supreme test
9. The Reward
10. The way back
11. Resurrection
12. Back with the elixir
    

This concept of the hero's journey was defined in 1949 by a certain Joseph Campbell in the very famous “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”.

After analyzing a large number of writings on heroes from around the world, Joseph Campbell concluded that almost all “monomyths” (Hero’s journeys) share the same structure, which is based on 17 stages.
Later, a producer and screenwriter, Christopher Vogler, reduced the structure to 12 steps, more easily integrated into cinema, incorporating some of Campbell's steps into his own.