Create Yourself by Telling About Yourself

The genre of memoirs is at the height of popularity — their authors receive Nobel prizes, are translated into dozens of languages around the world, and plays and films are made based on memoirs. We share with others a unified experience of human existence — the search for one's path and connection with family, losses and victories, closeness and separation, home and exile, and this is why deeply personal, truthful stories of people's lives touch us so profoundly. Maureen Murdoch, who gained worldwide fame with her book 'The Heroine's Journey,' discusses how memoirs can connect eternal archetypes of heroic myths with one's own life path, find strength in vulnerability, wisdom in mistakes, meaning in the chaos of coincidences, and provide one's own answers to fundamental questions: 'Who am I? Where am I from? What is my purpose?'