Check out "Exploring the Concept of Change — Metanoism I" here . Introduction History shows our universal obsession with stories where the protagonist faces an exacting challenge. The point of these stories isn't simply to entertain, but to repeatedly demonstrate our potential to be remade within the crucible of struggle, realizing through this change that we have an even greater potential for who we might become. Despite how they may seem on the surface, these are not tales of success but of confrontation with one’s own limits. It's in the act of self-confrontation, not the outcome, that we find something universally recognizable. This change is often anchored to a prior belief or inherited ideal of who one can or should become. We do not merely adopt these beliefs; we live them out, mistaking their familiarity for inevitability. I fail because I believe I will fail. I cause pain because my own pain was normalized long before I understood it as a choice. And so, w...