By chance, I saw the "20 Must-Watch Movies of Harvard Business School", including "what women want".
Frankly speaking, I was attracted by the recommendation of this movie: “Use the most ingenious way to reveal what women think. A handsome guy who is envied by a natural god is self-righteous. He is in the advertising industry and has no chance of promotion. It turns out that the boss is still a woman. An accident and a small car accident gave him the ability to read female minds. He actually discovered that women actually think so. Business psychology, female behavior, advertising, etc. These are the highlights of this film that need to be learned the most."
After reading the movie, the first thing to complain about is this recommendation. I don’t know if the person who wrote the recommendation has watched the movie seriously. Where is the car accident? The highlight of this film is by no means commercial value. My perception is that listening is more important than eavesdropping.
Before he had any special abilities, Nick was a big man with countless and self-righteous readers. For those who feel good about themselves, the most painful thing is to find that one day they are not so good, and the utopia that they built by themselves crashes to the ground. Nick's marriage failed, and his relationship with his children was bad, and the children didn't even think that his existence was the existence of a "father". Where is the root cause? All this comes from his self-righteousness and not knowing how to listen.
After possessing supernatural powers, Nick experienced: accidental possession-distress-adaptation-enjoyment-further distress-unexpected disappearance. In fact, the whole process only talked about one thing, Nick walked out of his machismo world.
At first, he used external "energy" to understand women, and this "energy" eventually became a spontaneous "desire to understand". After the supernatural power disappeared, although he didn't know what women were thinking anymore , But he is willing to listen to understand the thoughts of women.
One of the segments that impressed me the most in the movie was the story of Irene. Her inner monologue portrays her inferiority complex and her loneliness. But she is so ordinary, so ordinary that no one will notice her, even some colleagues don't know that there is a person named "Eileen" in the company. If Nick didn't have this kind of supernatural power, would he still understand the girl's inner monologue?
Back to reality, how many people like Irene are around us who are eager to be noticed but not noticed? Thinking back to the middle and high schools, why don’t people with poor grades like their teachers? Why do they want to fight against their teachers? Most teachers do not pay attention to him because of poor grades, so he chose this way to get attention. There is also a class of classmates who study well or not, are ordinary and unremarkable, and may never get the teacher's attention. Speaking of this, can our people's teachers pay more attention to these people? To listen to their voices?
More important than having supernatural powers is knowing how to listen. No one does not long for attention and warmth.
Caring for the people around you, maybe just a casual smile can change something.
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