A Lesson We Can All Learn From Fight Club

Remember the little movie called Fight Club ! Yeah that movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton . Well in movie I don't know if you saw it . But in the Movie Brad Pitt's character motivates someone in the most extreme unconventional way possible.This is what he said "

Listen, now, you're going to die, Ray-mond K. K. K. Hessel, tonight. You might die in one second or in one hour, you decide. So lie to me. Tell me the first thing off the top of your head. Make something up. I don't give a shit. I have a gun.

Finally, you were listening and coming out of the little tragedy in your head.

Fill in the blank. What does Raymond Hessel want to be when he grows up?

Go home, you said you just wanted to go home, please.

No shit, I said. But after that, how did you want to spend your life? If you could do anything in the world.

Make something up.

You didn't know.

Then you're dead right now, I said. I said, now turn your head.

Death to commence in ten, in nine, in eight.

A vet, you said. You want to be a vet, a veterinarian.

You could be in school working your ass off, Raymond Hessel, or you could be dead. You choose. I stuffed your wallet into the back of your jeans. So you really wanted to be an animal doctor. I took the saltwater muzzle of the gun off one cheek and pressed it against another. Is that what you've always wanted to be, Dr. Raymond K. K. K. K. Hessel, a veterinarian?...

So, I said, go back to school. If you wake up tomorrow morning, you find a way to get back into school.

I have your license.

I know who you are. I know where you live. I'm keeping your license, and I'm going to check on you, mister Raymond K. Hessel. In three months, and then six months, and then a year, and if you aren't back in school on your way to being a veterinarian, you will be dead...

Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you've ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your life"

I Love this movie ! So let me break it down . This an extreme measure but never hold a gun to your head or someone else's head to get motivated. Everyone has a invisible gun that can be triggered which can take them to extreme lengths and make them successful. Jon Marrow was paralyzed from the neck down since birth and he didn't want to be in assisted living home ready to die. This is what he said during the interview “I am one of the oldest people alive with my disease. Many of us die in an assisted living home, many die from an extra dose of morphine to speed things along.”

What kept you motivated?

“There was a gun to my head. The gun was, I didn’t want to be in an assisted living home, watching TV all day, waiting to die.

“Every day I wake up with that gun to my head. Every day I live.”

Listen to this podcast and learn more how you can motivate yourself ! I definitely learn a lot and you should too

https://jamesaltucher.com/2017/05/jon-morrow/

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