This blog name grows on me with the passage of time. People like it, and they tend to “get it” very quickly. I came up with it because I saw that an awful lot of people seem to live life on autopilot, but when you sit down with them in a consultation, you discover one hero after another. People are truly amazing. And every person is the hero of their own story. It’s wonderful to hear the stories unfold and see the heroes emerge.
In Becker’s “Denial of Death”, he writes
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. As awareness calls for types of heroic dedication that his culture no longer provides for him, society contrives to help him forget. Or, alternatively, he buries himself in psychology in the belief that awareness all by itself will be some kind of magical cure for his problems.
And he refers to Kierkegaard who criticised the tendency to live a “safe” life by living at “a low level of personal intensity” as a form of
Tranquilising itself with the trivial
……..there’s a lot of that about!
Heroes Not Zombies 
[…] Then that last line, “Otherwise, they explained, we wander aimlessly through life, giving our hearts to everything and nothing, and so destroy them.” brought me right back to heroes not zombies, and to Kierkegaard’s line about tranquillizing ourselves with the trivial. […]