![]() That applies whether you’re writing a book, building a business, recording a podcast-anything. If your answer to “Why are you doing this?” is “Because I can,” you have a problem. They just did it because they realized they could. They didn’t know, and then things went bad fast. Why did it seem like such a good idea to the fictional characters of this film? Aside from their apparent belief that billions of dollars of scientific research would be offset by the profits from theme park tickets, the answer is not really clear. More than 30 years out from the release of this movie, I think we can all agree that bringing the dinosaurs back is a bad idea. What he’s saying is our third SUCCESS Movie Message for Jurassic Park: Power needs a higher power. Ian Malcolm says it best when he spouts off with that line about scientists being so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t think about whether they should. Don’t hamstring your goals before they even begin. You will lose control in some way, and if your goal is total control, you will fail. If you do, you’re not likely to find yourself staring into the big, beautiful eye of a tyrannosaurus, but you are likely to find yourself looking at the big, ugly eye of failure. You may even picture how much easier everything would be if you had it. In your personal development and entrepreneurial journeys, you may wish for total control. When one little thing went awry, the whole enterprise fell apart in chaotic and entertaining fashion. Total control was their goal, and it was a bad one. ![]() They wanted and required absolute control over the whole modern-day dinosaur situation. What went wrong in Jurassic Park? I’m not talking about the science-y problems-I’m talking about what they were trying to do. That’s because you can’t have total control of anything if you are already accepting that chaos will enter the scene at some point. Our second SUCCESS Movie Message kind of riffs off of the first one: Total control is a bad goal. In any case, you should count on chaos by becoming antifragile. That might look like an in-depth post-mortem to see what you can learn every time something goes wrong, or it might simply be a conscious effort to double down when you are faced with chaos. This goes beyond designing your goals and ambitions to withstand resistance it quite literally asks you to create systems that actually become stronger when they encounter resistance. To “count” on chaos, you need to incorporate the principle of “antifragility,” as coined by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb. That’s why you should always count on chaos. Whatever you have planned-whether it’s a new business, a side hustle, a new fitness regimen or something else entirely-something will go wrong. The problem is that chaos always seems to happen. We love to see it in films, of course, but in real life? Not so much. But the park didn’t count on the frog DNA allowing the dinosaurs to switch sexes.Īs it tends to do, chaos ensues. And the events, as you know, are about the chaos that happens inside a giant theme park full of real, live dinosaurs.īut that chaos wasn’t supposed to happen, right? The dinosaurs were genetically engineered to be all female so that they wouldn’t reproduce. Just kidding-that’s a little too easy, though it’s a great tagline and a driving force behind the events of the movie. Our first SUCCESS Movie Message for Jurassic Park is “Life finds a way.” Welcome back to SUCCESS Movie Rewind, the only podcast in podcast history to ask what dinosaurs can teach us about personal growth. My hope is that this episode of the podcast also defines your expectations when it comes to sci-fi films about dinosaurs that teach you lessons, which I’m officially going to start calling SUCCESS Movie Messages™. It’s a wild ride, and you could say it defined a generation of moviegoers’ expectations when it comes to big-budget sci-fi movies. The things she wanted him to do now.This week, I was so preoccupied with whether I could make an episode of SUCCESS Movie Rewind about Jurassic Park that I didn’t stop to think if I should. The things they did a few nights ago in the very bed she had just woken up in. Instead, she was feeling inexplicably sexy. ![]() She’d apparently forgotten how she always looked like a possum on Adderall for the first half of the day. When she woke up earlier that morning, Reagan must’ve been having an out-of-body experience.
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