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Hoosiers
1986 · Film · 114 min
Directed by David Anspaugh
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
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The author is pretty upfront that the conclusion was meant as a reference to a character in the movie "Hoosiers", not that any of the personalities named were literally drunks or bad fathers.
Hoosiers is probably my favorite movie of his.
Hoosiers, for sure. "My team is on the floor" was such a flex as a coach, it is still difficult for me to separate the man he played in that movie and the actor, to me they're one and the same.
My point is that when you hear stories of other people doing incredible things and feel that you can relate to them - it inspires you to be better, to act differently and to make changes in your life - in a natural and emergent way.
Books like Born to Run, talks like The Last Lecture and movies like Miracle and Hoosiers are inspirational and that's not at all a bad thing.
"Inspirational talks have often convinced me of an idea, but have never inspired me. Which is weird, because I have heard many speeches or talks that weren't inspirational talks, and yet they were inspirational!"
I think we are splitting hairs. A talk that inspires is an "inspirational talk". Some talks inspire certain people and not others, just as some foods don't taste good to me and some web apps don't do what I need them to.
Maybe you've just gone to the wrong inspirational talks.