There is another movie you can get something out of,

Howard Stern Private Parts (VHS DVD).

Whether it's an accurate portrayal of the actual events that Howard went through on his way to the top, I cannot say. Regardless, it's still very interesting.

The thing with movies, as with books, is that you get something out of them each time you watch them. The same can be said of seminar videos and audios.

The difference between movies and seminar tapes is

The information is more buried in movies.

With a seminar product the information is presented right for you to see. With the movie though, it's a part of the movie. You get to spot it for yourself.

This concept of discovering it for yourself is nothing new. On page 15 of my green and yellow 1963 copy of Think and Grow Rich are the words,


The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no fewer than 100 times throughout this book. It has not been directly named, for it seems to work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight, where those who are ready, and searching for it, may pick it up."

You might think waiting for something to hit you after watching a movie is a big ask. And maybe even that there's nothing really there.

But that's not the case. Our minds are not easily fooled, no matter how much special effects are brought into play.

Think how you feel with some horror movies you may have seen. Don't you want to scream at the character for doing something idiotic?

Deep down you know that if that situation was real a person wouldn't do what the on-screen actor is doing.

We've all seen Rocky and how beat up he gets. And we feel nothing deep deep down. Yet the other day, while watching kick boxing on the TV, shivers went down my spine and I felt cold all over.

Why?

Because I saw one of the guys get absolutely clobbered. He was knocked out. Nothing unusual about that. But in this case, before he began to fall he was hit again and then hit again as he started to fall - he was hit twice while he was out to it.

He fell and his head smached into the canvas.

But that wasn't what made me feel funny.

The camera came around to show his face as he was coming to. And what I saw frightened me.

I saw what can only be described as the look of someone with brain damage.

His eyes were open, his mouth was open, but there was no body home.

I've seen people who've been knocked out in real life. But I've never seen anything like this.

I thought I was witnessing the destruction of a mind. What had been a normal functioning human being only moments before, looked to now be a vegetable. And that's what sent shivers down my spine.

I was still seeing it on the TV... the same place I've seen far worse in movies... but my mind was able to tell the difference without trouble at all.

I bring this up to show that we can tell whether something we see in a movie is usuable in real life.

So when I recommend a movie it's because I see something useful in it.

Michael Ross.