Canon Events with Warren Thompson

Warren Thompson
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Canon Events with Warren Thompson — growing from the stories we love. We take the movies, music, and characters you're already obsessed with and pull out what they actually teach us about being human. Iron Man and trauma. Spider-Man and doing good when nobody's watching. K-pop and rejection. It's self-growth that doesn't feel like self-help — for anyone who's learned more from a story than a self-help book. Hosted by Warren Thompson (The Cosmic Wonder). New episodes regularly.

Episodes

  1. Aug 1

    What Iron Man Taught Me About Trauma | The Psychology of Tony Stark

    Everyone quotes "genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." Almost nobody talks about the part underneath — that Tony Stark's story might be the most accurate map of trauma, anxiety, and personal growth in all of pop culture. This is the full psychological transformation of Tony Stark — the Merchant of Death, the cave, the panic attacks, the ego, the shadow, and the man he finally became — and what every stage of it can teach us about our own lives. We get into cognitive dissonance, radical authenticity, why he keeps creating his own villains, and the one question the whole story is really asking: are you willing to take the armor off? Canon Events with Warren Thompson — growing from the stories we love.

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Canon Events with Warren Thompson — growing from the stories we love. We take the movies, music, and characters you're already obsessed with and pull out what they actually teach us about being human. Iron Man and trauma. Spider-Man and doing good when nobody's watching. K-pop and rejection. It's self-growth that doesn't feel like self-help — for anyone who's learned more from a story than a self-help book. Hosted by Warren Thompson (The Cosmic Wonder). New episodes regularly.

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