Foreword: "Mr. Sweetheart" is a drama film produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment, with a Douban score of 7.4 points. The film was released in the United States in 1996, for which Rod's character Cooper Gooding Jr. won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. At the beginning of the film, the impressive achievements of the athletes are shown. The male protagonist Jerry is the top agent of a sports management company, and his face is full of confidence.
Several failures in his work gave him a new look at his work. After a nightmare, he wrote a mission statement. I went to the copy shop overnight to print 110 copies and distributed them to colleagues in the company the next day. Because of this incident, it caused dissatisfaction among the leaders. He was fired, but he remained enthusiastic and planned to start his own company.
Leaving the company, only the little accountant Dorothy was willing to follow him, and everything started from scratch. Things were not as optimistic as he thought, and the original customers, one by one, left and even cheated on him. In the end, only rod, a second-rate black football player who was not favored, was left. A boss, an accountant and a client, three people came together.
This is a warm and powerful movie, and the male protagonist has gone from working hard to understanding why he works. He found that work did not bring happiness. The so-called happiness is to have a full life and to be meaningful. In the end, he re-proved that his ideas were right, learning to love people and how to treat customers.
Today, I will analyze the reasons for Jerry's entire process of becoming a depressed unemployed person from the three stages of unemployment, self-employment, and finally success. In the fourth part of the article, I will combine the film, especially Jerry's career journey, to talk about my thoughts on work and life.
The opening chapter of the film tells us about the glory of athletes. Jerry is proud to have a large number of excellent athletes, full of spirit, and intends to make a lot of money. Work for a large sports management company with 33 sports agents and 1685 top players. He is responsible for 72 athletes and receives an average of 264 calls a day.
Fat black athletes are on trial for rape. Jerry also had to say insincere words in front of the flash, "Other than that, this man is a brilliant athlete." "The athlete was hospitalized with an injury, lying in a hospital bed, still thinking about going to the game. Because the play rate reaches 65%, there will be a prize money, and he must take the prize money. The athlete's children questioned why Jesse hadn't stopped him, and it was already his fourth concussion.
All kinds of encounters make Jerry wonder if he has done something wrong? Jerry wakes up at night from a nightmare that he hates his place in the world. He began writing a mission statement to make recommendations for the future of the company. He wanted to change the company's irrational status quo for athletes, and remembered the original intention of protecting athletes. Make less money, pay more attention to customers, and care about customers.
Jerry's brave attempt was contrary to the company's ideals. This mission statement disgusts the boss. The boss, with superior conditions, huge financial resources and background, stole most of the customers. Jerry lost a decent job, went from being a top performer to a fired employee, and his career hit a low ebb.
At this time, it can be seen that Jerry cannot understand the company's approach, obviously for the company's better development. He thought the company would be proud of him, and when he entered the company, his colleagues applauded him. Before leaving, I wanted to mobilize my colleagues to leave the company and start a business with him. Only one goldfish and little accountant Dorothy were taken with them.
In my opinion, Jerry's unauthorized delivery of the Blue Book to his colleagues without the consent of the leadership is a mistake in itself. As an employee of the company, the consequences of doing so are not taken into account. This has a lot to do with the fact that he is too egotistical to hear other people's opinions.
With being fired by the company, the indifference of colleagues. Jerry wanted to prove his idea even more correctly, and began to shift from unemployment to self-employment. On the one hand, they want to achieve their own careers, and on the other hand, they are suppressed by the leadership. In this case, how does he finally succeed?
Jerry, who decided to start his own business, obviously has to face a lot of difficulties. The first is the loss of customers, who mostly value the company's resources. At first, Jerry was confident and wanted all the resources of the company. Next, in the interests and emotions, basically all customers, choose to stay in the company. Even the client has secretly signed a contract with the company, ostensibly planning to cooperate with Jerry.
Fortunately, no matter what the temptations and harsh conditions, the balloon star Rod never left him. The two people had many disputes and misunderstandings, but both chose to believe each other. In the end, Rod played an extraordinary role on the court, winning applause and respect from the audience. When the spotlight was all on his face, Rhode shouted, "Where is my agent?" ”
In the workplace, customers are the company's main source of income. Initially Jerry just took personal interests into account and let the client get hurt. Don't know how to get along with customers. And when he didn't have as many resources as the company, Rod chose to believe him. At this stage Jerry is fully committed to helping Rod and is concerned about his body. Keep your customers in mind and be true to your choices.
Initially funding for Jerry became a big problem. Even The only employee, Dorothy, couldn't pay her health insurance. Driven by interests, the customers also left one by one, leaving only rugby player Rod. At this time, you can see that Jerry is often in a depressed situation. Fortunately, Dorosi and Rhode always chose to believe him.
In my opinion, these two men are willing to help Jerry. One is that Jerry had helped them before, and his kindness was reciprocated in times of his own difficulties. And his behavior is passionate, and at this stage, Jerry knows how to thank the people around him. Treat customers carefully and responsibly. Standing in the customer's position, thinking about problems for him, and winning his trust.
Jerry's fiancée, Avery, is an ambitious man in her career, and after learning that Jerry has been fired, she decides to abandon him. This dealt a big blow to his self-confidence, on the one hand the distrust of the company, on the other hand, the distrust of his fiancée. In this case, there were fluctuations in his heart.
Colleagues across the company are reluctant to go with Jerry. Just when he was disappointed, Dorothy stood up. Said a sentence "I'll go with you." "Dorothy is a single mother with a young boy Ray. Her family often has a group of divorced women who don't believe in love and don't trust men.
Unlike them, Dorothy still chooses to believe in Jerry and bravely pursues love. When Jerry had nowhere to go, Dorothy took him in. Jerry's mission statement, which no one else believed, was regarded as a treasure by Dorothy. Finally, Dorothy mustered up enough courage to invite Jerry to dinner. Two people dating and eventually together.
Never lose the courage to believe in life, Jesse and Dorothy, one is to believe in their own ideas in the workplace, and the other is to believe in their own choices emotionally. For Jerry's personality, Dorothy chose to believe, and gave him a lot of courage.
In the face of Dorothy's feelings, Jerry was hesitant at first. Instead, Dorothy was the active party. Offering to invite Jerry to dinner, she sees Jerry getting along well with her son and giving gifts to his son. This touched Dorothy very much, and she let go of her psychological guard and was with Jerry.
In the feelings of two people, there was a disagreement. Dorothy thinks Jerry just wants to be responsible, not really like her, intending to separate from him. At this time, Jerry was in a dilemma. Later, with Rod's encouragement, Dorothy was recovered.
This relationship is precisely when Jerry suffered setbacks in his career. We often say that suffering sees the truth, but Dorothy still chooses to believe Jerry. Help him at work and support him emotionally. Jerry also works harder to create better living conditions for two people. In the end, Jerry went from simply wanting to be responsible to truly understanding that he loved Dorothy.
In the workplace, examples of solutions for violating the interests of the company can be seen everywhere. As a typical inspirational film in the United States, the form of expression is usually relatively simple. But the shining point of the male protagonist in the film still attracted me. Thoughts about career and love are presented in front of them through the discussion between the male protagonist and Rod.
Combined with the film story of "Mr. Sweetheart", let's talk about the thoughts and inspirations that this movie brings to me:
(1) Even if you encounter distrust from the people around you, you must always believe in yourself and be enthusiastic about life
Most people are so busy working that they forget to think. In the movie, the male protagonist Jerry's inexhaustible phone calls, busy work, and insincere words are a true portrayal of how many people in the workplace.
There's a sunk cost in psychology, and when people decide whether to do something, they don't just look at whether it's good for them, but they also look at whether they've invested in it in the past. We call these irrecogible expenses, such as time, money, energy, etc., "sunk costs."
At work, they are often confronted with disliked jobs, professions, and even bad lovers, and they are reluctant to let go because they give too much. Jerry, as the leader of the company, wants to change the status quo of the company. He was suppressed by his superiors, and he was convinced that he was doing the right thing.
In my opinion, the most precious quality of a person is to believe in their own choices. How to live in the workplace, it is impossible to have a smooth sailing. There will also be many setbacks, and choosing to face it positively and not complaining has the possibility of change.
(2) The maintenance of interpersonal relationships is a win-win model that benefits others, and helping others is also helping themselves
There is a narration in the movie that the most important thing in this line is interpersonal relationships. It is impossible for everyone to exist in this world independently. At the airport, Jerry sees Dorothy looking for her son for the first time, and Jerry offers to help find her. In order to keep Rhodes, a black man, he promised to help him make a lot of money. In the end he did it, rhode signed the team for 4 years, the cost is 11.2 million.
In "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", six modes of communication are mentioned, a win-win model of self-interest, a lose-lose model of both sides, a win-lose model of harming others and benefiting oneself, a win-lose model of being good at one's own, a win-lose model of self-denial and a no-deal model of gathering and dispersing.
The maintenance of interpersonal relationships should be a win-win situation. See life as a stage for collaboration, not an arena. In life and work, many things must seek the cooperation of others. An important basis for win-win is integrity, and the things promised must be said and done.
(3) Being able to listen to the opinions of others and make changes in a timely manner is the basis for success
Looking at Jerry's career, he was initially more arrogant. Unable to listen to others' opinions, Jesse finally re-proved his worth and achieved a happy marriage, inseparable from the spur of the black athlete Rod. He told the male major to unite and cooperate. When his relationship with Dorothy goes awry, Rod tells him to treat her well.
It is a very fortunate thing for a person to have people around you who are willing to spur you on. But on that basis, you have to be able to listen. If you close your heart, you will treat the words of others as the wind in your ears. It is impossible to get help from others to prove their own value again.
In the workplace, for the confusion of work, how to get along with customers. This movie all brings us a good example, and unlike the tension at work, the scene of the male and female protagonists together in the film is very warm. From "Mr. Sweetheart", I understand how to get out of the predicament and finally achieve things when encountering a low point in the workplace.