Looking For Bobby Fisher

I watch this movie every single month. Have you seen it?

Taylor

> I watch this movie every single month. Have
> you seen it?

Hi Taylor,

I haven't seen it.... I've heard of Bobby Fisher (a famous American chess player).... What is it that you got out of the film? Should I get myself a copy? :)

Dien Rice

P.S. I just ordered "Elmer Gantry" on Gordon's recommendation from a while ago.... I can't wait till it gets here so I can see it.... :)

I think there are quite a lot of good "educational" movies out there!

ÿLooking for Bobby Fisher is a truly,
truly incredible movie about an
individual who developed a passion
for himself and himself first.

(Remember that you cannot give away
something you do not possess.)

People think he was a great chess
player but he was a great, great,
passionate human.

He loved himself and this was his gift.

To become great at anything takes so
much more than just study or passion.
It takes so much more internal strength
and so much pain that another person
who does not share that particular self-love
can never understand or be empathetic.

This is why I am engrossed in such films
regularly.

In my home I have pictures of individuals
such as Bobby Fisher, Albert Hitchcock,
Ayn Rand, Miles Davis, Michael Jordan,
etc.

They seem to have no relationship to
each other. They seem to have no
congruency but one has to look at them
collectively.

Each individual ‘did his/her thing’ in spite
of the crowd. The crowd I refer to are
the humans walking through life on a daily
basis whom I refer to as living in ‘quiet
desperation’.

A sad lot indeed.

For those of you who may have visited my
forum you will know that at times there
has been some controversy over there.

I love to shake things up some times.

I love to challenge, take risk, expand,
and in the process I grow.

A lot of people disagree with me. This
makes me no difference as long as I agree
with myself. (To thine own self be true!)

I don’t mind being wrong, as long as I grow from
the knowledge of being wrong.

Dr. M. Scott Peck said it best in his masterpiece,
‘The Road Less Traveled.’ He stated the following:
“The highest form of mental health is dedication
to reality at all costs.”

And I hold this truth to be self-evident!

But, back to Bobby Fisher.

I embrace such personalities because of what
they stand for and what they will and have
accomplished.

But more importantly I embrace and grow from
them because of why they accomplish such great
things. They accomplish such greatness because they
simply can. I don’t think they set out to be the greatest
anything to anyone other than themselves.

I think that everyday they paint their Sistene Chapels,
everyday they win another Championship, everyday
they create another masterpiece for no other reason
besides they have developed, for themselves,
the ability to do.

Well, enough ramblings...

Do your thing...

Taylor

> Hi Taylor,

> I haven't seen it.... I've heard of Bobby
> Fisher (a famous American chess player)....
> What is it that you got out of the film?
> Should I get myself a copy? :)

> Dien Rice

> P.S. I just ordered "Elmer
> Gantry" on Gordon's recommendation
> from a while ago.... I can't wait till it
> gets here so I can see it.... :)

> I think there are quite a lot of good
> "educational" movies out there!




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Bravo, Taylor....

> I think that everyday they paint their
> Sistene Chapels,
> everyday they win another Championship,
> everyday
> they create another masterpiece for no other
> reason
> besides they have developed, for themselves,
> the ability to do.

And the question I have to ask then is how are each of us building our own Sistene Chapels, Championships, Grammy Awards, Pulitzer Prize, etc etc etc?

Each day carries within it the possibility to take one more step towards that for ourselves, AND for our communities around us be that in our home towns or the world community.

I have a couple little Masterpieces God has given me the privilege to raise on His behalf. Watching them and inspiring them is more important than anything else on the planet to me.

They have visions and dreams bigger and grander than I had...or rather, I had the dreams yet never saw the bridge to get to them.

How are you building Your Bridge?

Has anyone seen, "Remembering the Titans"? Now there is a bridge that is still being built. I get out my bricks and actively build that one alongside my children every single day.

"Field of Dreams" is one of my favorites because it goes so far beyond the obvious and the lead character does that which makes no sense and in the end his life does in fact become a dream. And his dream enables other people to see as well.

Life is indeed a dream.

Thanks for the inspiration, Taylor.

For everyone else, how are you building YOUR bridge to YOUR masterpiece? What is the action you will take today to get there?

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE




Dare to........

Hi Taylor,

Those are great and very inspiring thoughts!

And as for shaking things up.... I realize I need to be a bit more provocative (without being offensive) myself.... It's good for business and publicity.... :)

I agree with you about these good examples around us.... It's funny, in my case, when I was growing up, all my heroes were actually "anti-heroes"....

By this I mean that they were REALLY heroes, even though they may not have acted like it....

So, as a counter-example, Superman was a hero -- he always acted like a hero should, everyone loved him.... But "anti-heroes" were different....

My favorite comic character was Spiderman. I liked the fact he was an "anti-hero" because all the cops were after him too. The cops wrongly thought he was a criminal because he was always spotted at the scenes of crimes, when Spidey was chasing a baddie....

I also used to like to read about Philip Marlowe (in books by Raymond Chandler). He's one of those wise-cracking hard-talking detectives -- he was played by Humphrey Bogart in a couple of movies I think (like "The Big Sleep"). I think I liked that character because he talked tough, but deep down you knew he was really a nice guy... Another "anti-hero" type....

These guys didn't really care too much what others thought of them. The important thing to them was to do good things, and get the job done.... :)

Dien Rice

are the words on the cover of Payback (VHS DVD), staring Mel Gibson.

His character in the movie is a real anti-hero all right. He's a criminal. He steals some money and someone steals that money from him. So he spends the rest of the movie trying to get his stolen money back as well as paying back those who took from him in the first place.

I enjoy this film not so much because of the action, but because of HOW his character goes about getting the money back.

The odds he's up against don't matter to him. He doesn't care that he has to take on a crime syndicate. He doesn't care the cops are involved. He's DETERMINED and he deals with all of those problems by THINKING AHEAD and TAKING ACTION.

Qualities successful business owners have. So I see Payback as a "type" of educational film.

Another "type" of educational film is The Devil's Advocate (VHS DVD) staring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino.

Once you get past Keanu's usual lack-luster acting ability it's quite a good movie which has some very interesting business insights.

And the ending... boy oh boy! There's a twist. A totally unexpected twist (aren't all twists unexpected). And if you watch it closely, that twist is followed by another more subtle twist.

Both movies are rated R (Sorry kids). And while they can both be watched for their entertainment value, they have other things to offer as far as business goes.

Michael Ross.

Hi Julie,

You really do have a gift for inspiration.... Every time I read something you've written, I feel very inspired!

I think big dreams are good.... It's good to aim high! That way, even if you don't make it all the way, even if you only make it half-way up you've done well.... (As long as you don't use aiming high as an excuse to procrastinate!)

Field of Dreams was a great movie, even if you don't know the first thing about baseball.... :)

And Life is a miracle, if we only let it be one.... :)

Thanks Julie!

Dien




The web site to inspire you to be all you can be.... :)

Hi Michael,

I'd be interested in hearing more of your thoughts on this.... :)

I haven't seen Payback, but it was one of those movies I was thinking about maybe seeing when it was in the cinemas, but never actually got round to seeing. Gotta get the video. :)

I DID see The Devil's Advocate, though -- on your recommendation! Some good thoughts on ETHICS in business, and also other lessons....!

Thanks Michael!

Dien Rice

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.