Legend about yourself

In the third person it's harder to lie about yourself and awkward to feel sorry for yourself.

Start with the words 'There was a man who...' and don't slip back into 'I'. Third person, past tense, the way you'd speak of someone long ago. Take three or four events — not the ones on the resume, but the ones after which he became different. Keep the names and the cities, but skip the explanations: legends don't explain why the hero left. End not with today, but with a line about what he's still looking for. Tell it out loud or write it, but in one pass, no revising.

That man in the legend — would you follow him?