In 1956, while commenting on the new developments of the movie scene of the latest years and on the occasion of his The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) notoriously said:
Movies have lost a lot by this new trend towards documentary realism at the sacrifice of fantasy. After all, drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
This is something that we tend to forget quite often: We expect our life, our career, and our relationships to be as exciting and adventurous as in the movies and to be that way all the time.
We also expect ourselves to be as bold and bigger than life as we can see the main character of our favorite movie be in the most important scene...
And yet we forget that this is only one scene, one moment, one occasion, not the whole movie, not the whole life of the character. It is not what actually defines them.
What defines them and what defines us is the unique mix of all the moments, the dull and the extraordinary ones: what we do every day, what we say every day, who we are every day.
Life, with all the dull bits. Because they still matter.
Coaching question of the day:
"Who are you, every day?"
Movies have lost a lot by this new trend towards documentary realism at the sacrifice of fantasy. After all, drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
This is something that we tend to forget quite often: We expect our life, our career, and our relationships to be as exciting and adventurous as in the movies and to be that way all the time.
[Besides Instagram and all social media,
who are you every day, when nobody is watching?]
We also expect ourselves to be as bold and bigger than life as we can see the main character of our favorite movie be in the most important scene...
And yet we forget that this is only one scene, one moment, one occasion, not the whole movie, not the whole life of the character. It is not what actually defines them.
What defines them and what defines us is the unique mix of all the moments, the dull and the extraordinary ones: what we do every day, what we say every day, who we are every day.
Life, with all the dull bits. Because they still matter.
Coaching question of the day:
"Who are you, every day?"
Tags: Coaching question, Self-coaching, Self-awareness, Self-reflection, Quotes, Reframing, Self-acceptance, Alfred Hitchcock
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