Four students from an unknown high school assembled an underwater robot by relying on patchwork of agricultural equipment parts, and beat many well-known universities such as MIT in a big competition. Thus winning them the opportunity to cross the class and change their own destiny. Such a story really takes place in the United States, and has been remade into a movie, it is - "Patchwork Dreams".
Poster for the English version of "Patching Together Dreams"
Directed by Sean McNamara, the plot of the film is simple, in which a job-hopping engineer is recruited to teach at a community middle school, where he spends time with several illegal immigrant children and helps them participate in a competition organized by NASA to win the championship.
This is a typical inspirational film with the theme of "American Dream". As a nation of immigrants, the United States attracts all the people of the world who have dreams. But the conditions for becoming u.S. citizens are extremely harsh, so many people are illegally stranded, and their descendants can only attend some schools with poor educational resources. So when the environment and origin determine their future, many people have given up on the possibility of their future.
As an inspirational movie, "Patchwork Dreams" is very warm, because it has no exciting lines, no grand scenes, and the soundtrack is dominated by light music. These simple shooting techniques tell the story for the audience, and the audience also has a lot of resonance while watching. This article will interpret the following points.
<h1 class="ql-long-26964899" >01 Community High School against a prestigious university, winning the championship as a dark horse. </h1>
1. Dissatisfaction with the status quo is the best source of personal borrowing.
Oscar was obsessed with becoming a professional soldier, so he spared no effort to introduce himself to various departments. Even at the expense of fake documents to try.
Lorenzo, the elder brother in the family, is sensible and obedient, and has great talent in mechanics and cooking, but because of his family and identity, he still cannot be recognized by others.
Although Christian studied well, his thin figure was always the one who was bullied.
Louis is also the boss of the family, and he never bullies others, but is often teased by his classmates because he is fat.
Dr. Cameron, the substitute teacher, escapes reality by constantly jumping ship.
At the beginning of the film, the five people's own problems have been briefly introduced, and at the same time, they also show us the living conditions of illegal immigrants in the United States, although the proportion is not high, the picture is also the simplest presentation, but it is the best preparation for the transformation of the next five people. When the five of them weren't together, we all saw that their lives were actually very bad. They all seem to have assumed that life in the present will always be with them and will always exist.
In reality, many people will have a similar situation: because of some external conditions, individual efforts can not be equally rewarded, we can reduce it to dissatisfaction; under the same effort, others get more rewards than themselves, which is unwillingness. We will make ourselves burned out in dissatisfaction and unwillingness, and may affect our own planning.
The Persuasion writes:
The false horse, the non-profiteer, and the thousand miles.
The vernacular means that a person who uses a chariot and horse can walk thousands of miles instead of walking on his own feet. It also tells us that if people want to go further, they must learn to use external forces to help themselves.
Back in the movie, when these five people have been in what they think is right or right, they don't think how bad things are going to be now, at least better than before. When an opportunity arises, they resist, contradict, doubt, and friction, but when the future opportunity may allow them to live a normal "American" life, they choose to use each other's strength. We will be dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction will be internal and external, and useless dissatisfaction will only trap ourselves in the quagmire of self-blame and unable to move forward.
So, when the depths of the heart begin to awaken, they will begin to make choices.
2, the courage to try, is to choose the opportunity to change themselves.
The Silicon Valley Model has this passage:
Silicon Valley companies are highly tolerant of failure, which is why so many people are willing to try and make mistakes and try new things.
People who are brave enough to try will have such a belief: one step forward means 50% success. Another implication of this phrase is that it will also mean 50% failure. Everyone is afraid of failure, and imagines the failure of something to be extremely bad, so we will rest on our laurels.
There is such a scene in the movie. When the five people finally assembled the underwater robot after a difficult time and pushed it down the school corridor, the faces of the other students were full of mocking expressions. Perhaps the simple version of the underwater robot made of $800 in the eyes of others is a joke. Because they don't believe that these things that are transformed by fundraising and choosing the cheapest things can go to the national competition. This is what we are talking about, the body is not moving, the heart is dead.
As mentioned above, when we dare to take the first step, we choose the possibility of success. This possibility will give us the strength to keep moving forward, and when we are successful, we will thank ourselves for not giving up. As Dr. Cameron encourages the four boys in the same movie: You may not remember me in five years, but you will regret that you gave up on a chance to see the sea.
<h1 class="ql-long-26964899" >02 A team can forge ahead, and mutual trust is the most important cornerstone. </h1>
Trust between people is a difficult thing.
Why is that? Let's start with the movie.
In the movie, the process of five people from being strangers to each other and even clashing to finally being able to get together and win the championship can be described as quite bumpy. The point of conflict is that in the process of growing up, we will form our own values, and the most direct explanation is that we will present completely different views on the handling of the same thing.
This psychology comes from an effect, the Duck effect.
It refers to people who lack ability to draw wrong conclusions based on their own unconsidered decisions, but are unable to correctly recognize their own shortcomings and distinguish wrong behaviors.
We trust our judgments about things more than on the things themselves. So it means that when we need to work with others, team members first need to convince themselves to trust other team members. Just like in the movie, at first the Oscars and Lorenzo didn't look at each other, and even had a small conflict. But in preparation for the final race, the two worked together to fix the problematic machine.
Trust is a progressive process of the ego, the ego, and the superego.
I, convince myself. This is a relatively difficult process, requiring each individual in the team to believe that other members can make up for their shortcomings in some aspects according to the actual situation.
Self, acknowledge affirmation. This is a leaping state of mind, acknowledging that the role played by other team members requires the ability of individuals to think differently, and the main role of this ability is to constantly revise their understanding of themselves and their team members in the process of working together.
Superego, take responsibility. Constant mutual trust leads to a high degree of loyalty to each other. It means that responsibility is generated for team members, and this sense of responsibility will become a sense of responsibility for things as things continue to progress.
When the trust between the teams has been resolved, it means that we will all reduce the conflicts that may arise in the common march for the same goal. When every member is like this, it lays the foundation that things are bound to succeed.
<h1 class="ql-long-26964899" >03 Everyone uses the power of example when it comes to realizing their dreams. </h1>
"Patchwork Dreams" is based on a true story, so what is the ending of these five people after participating in the competition in reality?
They won prize money for the competition, Oscar professional soldiers eventually became Americans, Lorenzo and Luis opened a catering company together, and Christian was admitted to the department of industry and design at a community college. Their impact on the Carl Hayden Community High School is even more legendary. In the two competitions after the one they participated in, they won the championship by beating MIT twice in a row.
Undoubtedly, as a community high school, the energy generated by the legendary defeat of higher education institutions is enough to change the mentality of many people, who used to think that they would only live on the fringes of the city, and even lost their relationship with mainstream society for a lifetime, but when the championship won by the four boys became a light that broke through their previous cognition, it pointed out a defense line for them to move forward.
Role models are referenceable and a force that can be replicated to move yourself forward quickly. Imitators can refer to methods that have already been imitated and have already been verified, and in order to gain the opportunity to change themselves, it is the power of example.
In reality, we need to plan ahead through the following three points:
1) Goal. To determine the goal, it is necessary to determine the phased goal according to its own current situation for reasonable planning.
2) Reality. Reality, which refers to the comparison of the actual situation after the goal has been determined.
3) Impact. Influencing factors, factors that may affect execution are evaluated and appropriate corrections are made.
Role model is a positive force that not only gives us success, but also a stage that we can reach at our present stage.
Write at the end:
The patchwork dream can be deduced, but our lives still have to be treated with caution.
If you are cautious in the end, you will not be defeated.
This is a sentence in the sixty-fourth chapter of the Tao Te Ching, which means: Be as careful as you were at the beginning, and you will not fail. The four boys in the film initially joined the competition team without thinking that such a decision would change their lives, more or less for other reasons forced them to walk together and do something that they could not call a dream at the time. We applaud their hard work and perseverance along the way because they have broken through themselves and have become their protagonists when they stand on the playing field.
Then in reality, when we face our own lives, we can't piece together our own every day at will, set up our own clear sense of purpose for everything, and seriously deal with everything, which is a responsible and prudent attitude towards our lives. We will also become the protagonists of our dreams.