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Talladega Nights... sychronisity is in the strangest places!!

So, after posting the last topic on "winning attitude" I watched Talladega Nights. I wouldn't say it was the Best Movie Ever Made, Ricky Bobby. But I loved the turning point:

Susan: It's because it's what you love, Ricky. It is who you were born to be. And here you sit. Thinking. Well, Ricky Bobby is not a thinker. Ricky Bobby is a driver. He is a doer, and that's what you need to do. You don't need to think. You need to drive. You need speed. You need to go out there, and you need to rev your engine. You need to fire it up. You need to grab ahold of that line between speed and chaos, and you need to wrestle it to the ground like a demon cobra. And then, when the fear rises up in your belly, you use it. And you know that fear is powerful, because it has been there for billions of years. And it is good. And you use it. And you ride it; you ride it like a skeleton horse through the gates of hell, and then you win, Ricky. You WIN! And you don't win for anybody else. You win for you, you know why? Because a man takes what he wants. He takes it all. And you're a man, aren't you? Aren't you?

It's because it's what you love!!!

Get it on girl!

... so, I probably don't need to say this, but I was floored that the thrust for his return was to do it for himself. That he was the only motivation he needed.
... I love pop culture!

winning attitude

Giorgio Chinaglia, the notorious bad boy from the New York Cosmos (perhaps the best Soccer team ever) said, If you don’t have an ego in sport, you’re not going to go far.
It is apparent with other super stars as well. From Phil Mickelson to Michael Jordan, I have heard the same stories about how they are so confident it is easy to interpret as arrogant and cocky. They do not actively hide their greatness and magnificence; therefore, they must believe they are the best, the greatest, there is NONE higher!!!

King of kings! Better than Best!

I recall when I learned the story of Narcissus. My teacher said we all have narcissistic tendencies. She continued saying that this tendency is the cause for us to continue living.
I was eager at the time to prove that I had none of this in me. I was attempting to show how virtuous I could be, but my hindsight tells me now that she was accurate and I was disillusioned by the social drug of selflessness.
Today, I understand that the ONLY way to serve others is to be completely serving Self-interest. That is a capital S-elf, the core of who I am, which I listen closely to for my guidance. And this guidance provides me with information about how to best serve me! Many times the guidance and choice I make is to serve the people in front of me. To give to them all that I have to give. It is because I listen to my self interest that I have something to give; without this bank of attention on my Self I would have nothing to offer.
It is one of the trickiest, socially stickiest topics I have ever ventured on. The book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is at its core about this belief in one's Self interests. In fact, Rand displays with painfully long discourse the path of social selflessness and the results of a completely "selfless" nation of leaders.
The irony is this, a leader is by definition in service to his/her constituents.

Column article in the local Asheville Newspaper

Click here for the link to the article.

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