“Your Words Can Come Back To Bite You—If You’re Not Careful”
Google Movie
Synopsis:
Rocky
Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a small-time boxer from working-class
Philadelphia, is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight
champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), when the undefeated fighter's scheduled
opponent is injured. While training with feisty former bantamweight contender
Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith), Rocky tentatively begins a relationship
with Adrian (Talia Shire), the wallflower sister of his meat-packer pal Paulie
(Burt Young).
Scenario:
Rocky and Apollo are in the 15th round of their
heavyweight championship fight. The
final bell rings, sounding the end of the boxing match. Both fighters are exhausted, mentally and
physically.
Selected Scene:
Apollo Creed: Ain’t gonna be no rematch, ain’t gonna be no rematch.
Rocky Balboa: Don’t want one!
Business Tip:
We often find ourselves having to back out of a corner based
on a controversial comment we said at a particular moment in time when we
really haven’t thought it through all the way.
It’s like we have this built-in reflex mechanism that makes us want to
respond immediately when asked a direct question or faced with a pointed
statement. More then likely this can be due to our emotions, physical
condition, not having all the facts or thinking we have all the facts (and we
really don’t). I covered related issues in previous blogs (Forrest Gump-4/12
and Titanic-3/7) if you feel like exploring more of this later. During the scene above, Apollo and Rocky are
both guilty of spouting off with minimal thinking to what they were saying,
albeit they just went 15 rounds knocking each others brains out—sometimes
during an intense discussion we feel like we went 15 rounds! The tip here is to start getting into a habit of leaving
yourself an out when you find yourself in a high stresses situation. Practice
using words at the end of a sentence such as, we’ll see, good point, I’ll think
about it, give me some time, etc.
There’s nothing wrong not committing to an answer . . . even if you’re
called a chump!
