In Treatment

I watch this HBO original series and am consistently impressed by how well written it is, and how great a job all the actors do.    I watch the show because I think the show puts on center stage many changes that are occuring within the American culture.   Of course I also like understanding the ‘why’ behind peoples actions…

http://www.hbo.com/intreatment

Apartment For Peggy

Apartment For Peggy is a movie I stumbled upon.  It happened to be on the TV–about half way through to the end–when I turned it on today, and I sure am glad it was.  I watched the entire last half of it, because it was so well written and articulate.    Perhaps I read into movies too much, but I think the movie is great, and perfectly fitting for a young leader.  I think the movie does a good job of illustrating a number of lessons.  In addition, the movie was surprisingly watchable for being so old.  Some of these lessons include:

• focusing on money, makes you short-sided,and unable to see the forest among the trees
• a tree takes a long time grow big and tall, but it is beautiful once it has
• don’t raise peoples hopes prematurely
• philosophy means the love of wisdom
• leadership may naturally follow passion
• a positive attitude is infectious
• the wise continue learning all through out their lives
• anything worth doing, isn’t easy
• times sure have changed (women are treated much differently nowadays)

 

Watch the movie, and maybe post some lessons you took from the movie as comments to this post!  I would love to read them.