Learning from Movies: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

Initially, I considered including a bit about how How to Train Your Dragon shows the triumph of science over superstition, but then I remembered that I already read that somewhere else.

Why did it take us a year to jump on the How to Train Your Dragon bandwagon?

I mean everyone has seen it, by now, right?

To be honest, everyone we knew who had seen it had kids, and we don't. Everyone I knew who a) saw it, and b) didn’t have kids, couldn’t endorse it any more fervently than a meh-intoned, “You should see it. You’d probably like it.”

Well, we’ve seen it now. It’s awesome. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s a terrific movie for adults as well as kids.




Stay tuned for lessons and inspiration after the break.

• Believe in yourself
• Just because everyone else does something a certain way doesn’t make them right and you wrong
• Question teaching methods
• Your head is more than a place for a breast-hat
• Support your community – even if you have to save them from suicidal ignorance
• Vikings had a lot of occupational hazards
• Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world. – Artistotle knew that intelligence and rational thought are power
• You don’t have to go it alone. Get your team onboard
• Draw out the quiet ones – don’t let good ideas lie dormant
• Embrace the weirdoes. They know, and see, things that you don’t
• Encourage diversity. That’s where creative solutions come from
• Do something. Thinking provides solutions, but action carries them out
• Never quit. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Remember that Albert Einstein described insanity as, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

If you’re not getting the results you want, it’s time to get creative.