Pursuit of Happyness
Was watching the movie "Pursuit of Happyness".
Success did not come easily to Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith). The thing about successful people is this, they don't have time to mull over things that are not important. Many scenes I liked...here's a few.
Scene #1:
There was a scene where Chris had been knocked by a car and lost his shoe. When he returned to the office and his fellow interns were quietly laughing some asking questions, "where's your shoe?", he simply acknowledged quietly and went back to his work. Busy people with a focused mind have little time for wasted energies . Besides instead of satisfying one's curiosity, its better to ask "Are you ok?". Never wrong to care for someone else. If our 1st response when we see someone without a shoe is to ask," Where's your shoe", that's an inward thinking, rather we should condition ourselves to ask,"Are you ok?" Can I get you something?. When we train our minds to behave and react in a certain way, we become better people.
Scene #2:
In many instances, Chris never shares his problems, EXCEPT to those who can help him solve them. People from the Shelter, Church. So I say this, its not productive to discuss about unhappy things in your life with folks that cannot help. Focusing our energies with the right people at the right time. Focusing our energies doing completing one task at a time. Even if we need to multi-task, we accomplish each goal 1 task at a time.
Scene #3:
Blood donation. Donating blood is a good act, just that when Chris donated it and gave a part of his body away in order to eat. That's about the bottom of the barrel. And yet never to feel sorry for oneself or hate life, or be jealous of people who are successful, Chris was a willing student.
And that really impressed me. We have to keep learning, from people who are better, people who are where we want to go. Chris met a gentlemen who rolled up in a sports red ferrari.
2 questions he had to ask in an impressed tone:
The thing about life is this, we need to forge our way, and we need to want it badly enough, for the simple reason this helps us to focus and do better then everyone else. Then in our pursuit of happyness, pick that someone who is where we want to go, and follow.
And when you've succeeded, that point in your life, is the part you will experience the feeling called "happyness"
Success did not come easily to Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith). The thing about successful people is this, they don't have time to mull over things that are not important. Many scenes I liked...here's a few.
Scene #1:
There was a scene where Chris had been knocked by a car and lost his shoe. When he returned to the office and his fellow interns were quietly laughing some asking questions, "where's your shoe?", he simply acknowledged quietly and went back to his work. Busy people with a focused mind have little time for wasted energies . Besides instead of satisfying one's curiosity, its better to ask "Are you ok?". Never wrong to care for someone else. If our 1st response when we see someone without a shoe is to ask," Where's your shoe", that's an inward thinking, rather we should condition ourselves to ask,"Are you ok?" Can I get you something?. When we train our minds to behave and react in a certain way, we become better people.
Scene #2:
In many instances, Chris never shares his problems, EXCEPT to those who can help him solve them. People from the Shelter, Church. So I say this, its not productive to discuss about unhappy things in your life with folks that cannot help. Focusing our energies with the right people at the right time. Focusing our energies doing completing one task at a time. Even if we need to multi-task, we accomplish each goal 1 task at a time.
Scene #3:
Blood donation. Donating blood is a good act, just that when Chris donated it and gave a part of his body away in order to eat. That's about the bottom of the barrel. And yet never to feel sorry for oneself or hate life, or be jealous of people who are successful, Chris was a willing student.
And that really impressed me. We have to keep learning, from people who are better, people who are where we want to go. Chris met a gentlemen who rolled up in a sports red ferrari.
2 questions he had to ask in an impressed tone:
- Sir, what do you do?
- And how do you do it?
The thing about life is this, we need to forge our way, and we need to want it badly enough, for the simple reason this helps us to focus and do better then everyone else. Then in our pursuit of happyness, pick that someone who is where we want to go, and follow.
And when you've succeeded, that point in your life, is the part you will experience the feeling called "happyness"
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