Motivation in Pop Culture

The other day in class we were talking about if a movie could actually motivate us, some people made the point that the movie The Pursuit of Happiness motivated them, having never seen that movie I Googled quotes from the movie and the most common one that came up was “Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?” said by Will Smith’s character. 

That quote is very powerful in the sense that, he wants to teach his son that he can dream big and achieve anything he wants to, and that he should ignore any one that tells him that he cannot reach his goals. I think that anyone with big dreams only has two options; they can either go forward and not let anyone or anything get in the way of them achieving their goals or they get tired and discouraged along the way and they give up. There isn’t really any other option.

 But what happens when you dream this big dream and you’re standing at the middle, with people watching you and counting on you, and you just think to yourself that you don’t have what it takes to achieve this goal. You want to just slide by and hope no one notices, but in reality there are people around us watching and willing to do whatever to get us to our goal.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUKoKQlEC4

I think this scene from Facing the Giants, is a great example of how many people doubt their own ability to succeed. Sometimes we need something or someone to point out to us that we can do twice as much as what we think we can, we just have to be shown. If it’s a movie, music, TV show, or quotes.