Blockbuster Living

Make Your Life the Best Movie You've Ever Seen

Step back from your problems, make sense of your experience, and rewrite your story.

This book helps you achieve positive change and better outcomes by being the storyteller and the star of the story you want to tell. Part narrative therapy and Hollywood how-to, Blockbuster Living braids our love of filmed entertainment and its formula of success onto our daily routine of family, love, work, faith, and the big question always lingering: What do we really want?

This is an invitation to think like a storyteller; clarify the past and build an intentional future that is harmonious with a truer version of yourself.

Using a mix of popular film, memoir and a dash of social psychological scholarly studies, filmmaker and educator Andrew Ainsworth uncovers the dynamic force of Hollywood storytelling that goes beyond the big screen. A fresh take on the self-help genre, this book asks you to externalize your conflict and become an expert on the patterned details at play in your day-to-day experience.

This is a book about harnessing the power of your narrative; turning doubt and debate into action; making location and the small details count; staying focused and on-story; dealing with life’s villains and antagonists; and enhancing your role in others’ stories.

Start now and use the movies you love to mindfully craft how you move through the world. Uncover the plot central to your life and star in, direct and produce the best movie you’ve ever seen: Your Own.

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