Jake Goldberger – life of a king
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Inspired by true events, Cuba Gooding Jr plays Eugene Brown recently released from prison after serving 18 years for bank robbery. While in prison Eugene learns chess and realises through playing of chess there are many life lessons to be learnt. He goes on to develop a program called the Big Chair Chess Club to improve the lives of inner-city kids in Washington DC.
Mind Stars – Cuba Gooding Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Lisa Gay Hamilton…
What we like
- Brown was able to reach through to the kids as he knew how it felt to be in their shoes and he took it one step further by introducing chess. Through chess Brown taught the power of focus, discipline, self-respect and inner power. To focus on the “end game” rather than be carried away with the details or circumstances
- The real Eugene Brown in a cameo appearance as a tournament official
Mind experience
- In life we sometimes don’t understand why we are learning something and how it can actually help us in the “end game”. Just like the example of “wax on wax off” in the movie Karate Kid when he was given tasks to do around the home. He couldn’t understand why he needed to do all these different tasks like painting, scrubbing and waxing cars when he was meant to learn karate. Then it came to pass that the moves were the same as the karate moves and it became intuitive since he did the tasks so many times. With Eugene, he gave the kids a new way to look at things through chess moves. By repetition the chess moves became their moves in life. Intuitive as they moved to “Always think B4U Move” in everyday life. Think about what you have learnt and what it has prepared or helped you with, then share. You never know in sharing you might make a difference just like Eugene Brown
To think about
- Eugene Brown: It ain’t about whether you can or you can’t.
It’s about whether you will or you won’t.
- Eugene Brown: You have real talent. That’ll take you further than any money, race, class any day of the week.
Link to Big Chair Chess Club
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Henry David Thoreau – thanksgiving
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.”
Hebert George Wells – remember
“Because sometimes you have to step outside of the person you’ve been, and remember the person you were meant to be, the person you wanted to be, the person you are.”
James Allen – mind’s garden
“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. “
Katy Perry – roar
Roar is on the album Prism and co-written and performed by Katy Perry. The song has been a commercial success billing number one in various charts in the US, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand…
