Dan Harmon's Story Circle

How is Dan Harmon's Story Circle similar to "The Hero's Journey" monomyth cycle you've learned about?  How is it different?  Which system do you prefer?  Why?

    Dan Harmon's Story Circle is a story structure which breaks down the story into 8 key points: 1) comfort zone, 2) need/desire, 3) unfamiliar situation, 4) adaptation, 5) get what they wanted, 6) but pay a price, 7) return to comfort, and 8) having changed. The Story Circle is similar to "The Hero's Journey" monomyth cycle as it bares similarity in key moments such as a character having to leave their comfort zone into an unfamiliar situation, learning and changing from it, before inevitably returning to a comfort zone. The Story Circle differs from the Hero's Journey as it is able to work effectively at much smaller scales and acts much more loosely compared to the Hero's Journey. I believe I would prefer using the Story Circle because of its great versatility and how you can use it for smaller components of a story on top of the entire story. That being said, there is a level of simplicity with the Hero's Journey that would make it easier to follow so, in execution, I may wind up using one or both of these two tools when writing my next story.