OurBrainHurtsALot

I only know that I know nothing and a few other things here and there.

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[zombiesailor]

[therelentlessoptimist]

infinitedaysofthesun

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Me everyday

[theeraserhead]

"A film is, or should be, more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." - Stanley Kubrick.

[la-nueva-musica-clasica]

[randyhaddock]

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

Louis C.K. (via wethinkwedream)

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Kids work together to create eternal recess

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LET ME TELL YOU A THING OR SIX ABOUT KATE BUSH She’s the first female artist to ever write her own #1 hit in the UK. She was also 19 at the time, and fought the record company to make Wuthering Heights the said single instead of another song (James and the Cold Gun) and won - which was unheard of, especially a woman her age. She started recording her debut album, The Kick Inside (1978), in 1975 at the age of 15 with the help of David Gilmour, who discovered her through her brother Paddy and his friends. She presented David Gilmour with over 50-100 songs on one tape she had written starting at the age of 12. She’s also the first (and to date, only) female artist to have Top 5 albums in the UK charts in five successive decades.  This year, she became the first female UK musician to have eight albums on the Top 40 at the same time. Altogether she had 11 albums in the top 50, putting her at number three for simultaneous UK Top 40 albums, virtually tying with the Beatles.  She was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire last year for her services to music.  and the most important point for me, I really feel like she’s often ignored when mentioning strong women in media. She doesn’t do what she’s told and as a woman in the music industry at the time she started, that was revolutionary. She refused to compromise her career just to please the big wigs in the music industry. She refused to be seen as just some pretty lady on the television. She was doing stuff that was big and unafraid, that makes you want to be big and unafraid. As someone as weak and fragile as me (trust me, I’m a wreck), I see her as such a strong inspiration, making me feel like I can do anything. I feel like her inspiration should spread to future generations, because I believe we’ll never see anything like her again once she’s finally gone.

[awesomepeoplehangingouttogether]

Tom Morello and Adam Jones

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[thesochill]

Welcome back to School!

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Types of matter

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[undersstand]

What if Peter Pan was just an asshole, and had kids jump out of windows, making Neverland a coma dream?

[roomvibes]

Peter Pan originally was an angel of death that held kid’s hands when on their way to heaven (Neverland). That’s why they never grew up. All those kids were dead.

[undersstand]

my childhood….gone…..

[localfauna]

Where the fuck did that gif come from

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The lion king bloopers

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Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door.

Sophia Dembling - The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World  (via dianekrugers)

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Nice hats and this lovely smile…

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Dead Poets Society [Peter Weir, 1989]

[ourbrainhurtsalot]

Monster's University: The Hard work vs Talent Paradigm

Do you remember when you were a child and your parents use to read to you different types of tales every time you were about to go to sleep?  I don't. But anyway, you know which stories I'm referring to, you know these types of tales and you know that there's always an underlying lesson that you must have acquired by the end of the story. Usually , it's a lesson that you've already acquired or is something so obvious or dorky that you completely forget about it within few minutes. Classic Disney movies work the same way, hell, even the most popular and classical Disney movies are based upon these stories. Except Pixar movies, those are different. Pixar movies tend to explore themes that we don't ordinary see in kids movies and some of these themes and lessons are actually quite complex than just the classics : "The true beauty is inside", "True love conquers everything", "You're the only one holding you back", etc. Take the revolution and oppression theme that revolves around "A Bug's Life":

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The middle-aged crisis and the family issues that Mr.Incredible has to endure and how these things put his family in danger, the dilemma that Woody has to face while choosing a momentary period of happiness with Andy or an eternity of fame in a museum but alone.

The conflicts that these characters face are quite complex but at the end of the day, they always learn the lesson that we expect them to learn, they always make the choices that we expect them to may. Except in this final release: Monster's University.

The overall theme that Monster's University presents us is the classic "Talent vs Hard-work" paradigm; Mike Wazowski representing the notion of hard work and determination and  Sulley (and all of the other successful monsters) the notion of talent and natural ability. You may think that this is nothing new, we have been presented with this same paradigm in a lot of different movies and what is the lesson that they always teach us? It doesn't matter if you don't have talent, if you keep on trying, you will succeed. If you show determination and hard work you can keep up with the ones with natural talent and even overtake them. Hard work is always going to defeat talent. That's the lesson that we have learned but now here it comes Monster's University and this movie doesn't come to retell this lesson, what it does is actually the opposite: this movie challenges and question this idea that we thought we have learned and in the process that teach us the true hard lesson about the "Talent vs Hard work" paradigm.

What Monster's University and Mike Wazowski's quest of becoming a "scarer" are trying to tell us is that, this paradigm is not always true, hard work doesn't always manifests in success and in some disciplines, a degree of natural talent is required and cannot be acquired through hard work.

You can try, you can be determined but hard work is not always going to defeat natural talent. Just because you desire a dream so much and you try everything to reach it, that doesn't mean that it's going to eventually come true. But when you fail you need to know that this wasn't your fault. With the other lesson, failing is such a painful process because everything is up to you, success is there and you can take it, if you couldn't take it that means that you didn't tried hard enough and your failure is completely your fault. In real life this is not true, Mike had the knowledge and determination to become the greatest scarer of them all but he lacked the essential natural talent. After learning this hard lesson, Mike modified his dream based on the realities he has faced and that's exactly what we do in real life, that is the true lesson that we have to learn about this paradigm: Sometimes we have to just accept failure, move on and try something else, if you've tried really hard there's no shame in that.

So as you can see this is not the typical lesson that you get from your typical fairy tales or your typical Disney movie, this is a hard lesson to learn but an important one and Monster's University does an excellent job in teaching it.

Thanks for reading :)