Here's the truth.  Bad marriage is boring.  Unfulfilled marriage is boring.  Marriage without honesty is boring.  Marriage without growth is boring.  And so you can think well that means monogamy is boring.  That's absolutely an absurd and superficial conclusion.     True marriage is the most exciting, the most dynamic, the most challenging, the least boring thing in the entire world.  If you're not growing, you're going to get bored with yourself and your partner.  And novelty with somebody new for six months or a year, or two years, will take care of it and you're going to be right back to the same situation again.

 Your partner's job is not to keep you interested.  Your job is to keep yourself interesting and growing by being a dynamic human being, not thinking that the marriage is supposed to somehow fill you up. But the marriage, every day, by definition, is based on who you bring to the marriage bed.  Who you bring to the kitchen table.  And if who you're bringing, meaning you...

Not to be too harsh on the curriculum of our educational system, but did you ever actually spend a semester learning how to be great? How about the fine points to becoming an honest to goodness success? How to be a true hero? How to actually love someone (no, not the mechanics of ‘doing it’, which any animal readily figures out)? How to fall in love with life and all the incredible possibilities it offers to you, if you don’t let the day-to-day details bog you down?  I thought not.

So here then is a quintessential guide – well, as essential and life changing as you want it to be - to standing outside the box of ‘going-nowhere mediocrity’. The experts are very much of the 21stcentury, storytellers whose wisdom is the end result of building blocks that have been carefully assembled over thousands of years.

The Quest for Success is the core of the famed Hero’s Journey. If you look at the classical myths of the hero’s journey, you find the hero must always head out somewhere, ...