Thursday, October 16, 2008

A Hero

First off, you don't need to be a hero in the stock market. Secondly, the definition of hero I am using currently is what I term the classical hero, not the one in comic books. It is the classical one that David Mamet, the famous screenwriter and playwright, defines which can be adapted to any endeavour in life. I found this on the RedBelt DVD, a movie highly rewarding.

Interviewer asks: "Is Mike Terry a hero because he refuses to be conned and because he can't be conned?"
David Mamet: "Everybody can be conned. There's nobody here who can't be conned because we're all human...and because we all have desires...and we all have secret lusts and passions...and greeds and envies and regrets and ambition...Everybody can be conned. So what makes a person a hero is not that he can't be conned...but that he has the capacity to overcome...his human weaknesses...in order to serve some higher ideal.

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