A great movie - The Pursuit of Happyness

一直想看却没有机会，直到今晚才得闲一睹。却没料到，忍不住又看了第二遍。这部源自Christopher Gardner的真人真事的电影，再一次强调了一个被无数电影、书籍和演讲所表达的道理：只有不敢做的事情，没有做不到的事情。

主人翁和他儿子的一段对话可以说是整个电影的点睛之笔：
Christopher Gardner: Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me.
Christopher Gardner: All right?
Christopher: All right.
Christopher Gardner: You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.

然而成功并非只是有“做”的胆量和激情，从Christopher Gardner的身上我至少看到了几点一个成功者不可或缺的要素：

1、坚韧。这是电影着力的主题。正如Steve Jobs所说："Sometimes life hits you like a brick"，我们必须爬起来，前进 - 哪怕是失去配偶、无家可归。
2、乐观。每天打几百个Cold Calls，领教几百个No，有几个人还能面带微笑？
3、人脉。没有那场球赛给Christopher Gardner带来的朋友关系，他的个人历史极可能改写。
4、好学。看似简单的起早贪黑和废寝忘食，不是每个人能做到的。
5、信仰。那时主人翁的精神支柱，在他最困难的时候支持他前行。
6、幽默。无论是面试还是与客户交流，Gardner都展示了他的幽默感。
7、爱心。除了对儿子的爱，Christopher以帮助别人的心态与客户工作，而今又投身于多个慈善公益项目，为更多的人创造Pursue happyness的机会。这是电影没有讲述的故事。

记得《Good to Great》讲到Level 5 Leaders (最优秀的领袖人物)所拥有的两大共性：Iron will + humility - 无疑在Christopher Gardner的身上也得到了完美的体现。

每个人对幸福的定义不一样，追求幸福的方式也不一样。也许我们每个人和Christopher Gardner一样问过自己类似的问题：It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

但是当幸福knock knock的时候，我们都知道那是怎样的一种感觉。

Stay tuned. Stay alert.