Have you ever felt like you have given all you have to give and it still isn’t enough? Rudy feels like he has run into a wall. After not making the dress list of players, Rudy decides to quit the football team –until the school janitor tries to talk some sense into him. As you watch … Read more
In this clip from Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius informs his tortured son, Commodus, that he will not succeed his father on the throne. Ask yourself, what is right with this picture? Neutrino’s Analysis Strengths of Emperor Marcus In choosing Maximus, a beloved general, over his own son, Marcus is in fact displaying a tremendous strength in addition … Read more
Patch gives an impassioned speech before a council of doctors about the right way to treat patients. Patch is fighting the same fight he’s been fighting his whole life: trying to convince narrow-minded authority figures that a more personal, loving, and human approach to medicine is really the only way that works. Ask yourself, what is … Read more
Defeat affects everyone. No one meets 100 percent of their expectations or potential every moment of the day. By monitoring one’s internal attitude, defeat can be replaced with success. After David misses a field goal kick, David’s father tells him that he won’t make the kick unless he believes in himself. Ask yourself, what is right with … Read more
Ray Charles is a small boy around the age of seven who has fully lost his sight, presumably to untreated glaucoma. As he runs inside the door to his family’s small, rustic cabin, he accidentally knocks his foot hard against the bottom of a rocking chair and falls to the floor in pain. He begins … Read more