I haven't watched a non-007 movie in almost a year, and over the weekend I finally broke that streak by watching "Dirty Harry" and "Magnum Force."
Needless to say, the movies had an effect other than making me wish that I was a cop working in 1970s San Francisco. Dirty Harry extols the virtue of playing by your own rules, even if it means clashing with your superiors (granted, Detective Callahan's boss was a crook too, so that makes it a bit easier). As Dirty Harry says many times, "a man's got to know his limitations."
But limitations are exactly what most of our educational backgrounds seem to be forcing on us, as James Altucher writes in this old blog post of his: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/03/unschool-your...
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