Topic - Motivation
Movie - Slumdog Millionaire, (2008) by Fox Pictures
Movie summary - Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to win a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Kaun Banega Crorepati?" (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quiz.
Concepts - The questions were raising between the audience sand the program crews that how come like Jamal, a self confessed non-genius who grew up in the slums of Mumbai, can be doing so well on the show when others who are brighter, more educated and wealthier than him have failed. Is Jamal cheating? Is it purely luck that they have asked him the questions to which he knows the answers? Seeing Jamal's life journey to this point ultimately answers these questions. His life journey includes being orphaned at an early age; growing up with an older brother, Salim, who was both his guardian/protector and antagonist; and having a relationship since childhood with another orphaned child, a girl named Latika. His motivation for being on the show may provide the key to his success. Clearly, he got both intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. He not only wants to get the big prize of “Who wants to be a millionaire?”, but also he wants to find the answers for his life and his love life, and he’s very persistent to his goal. After observing his chapters of life, we can see all his elements of his motivation: His direction of behavior, his level of effort, and his level of persistent. It probably that his motivation and his effort to achieve the goal is one of reason why the movie got the Oscar Award for the best film in 2009.
2 comments:
Are employees or a team which is happy always motivated. That is if an employee is happy in a company is s/he always motivated to work hard. I always hear that companies try to motivate their employees but often do not hear the words like ‘we keep our employees happy’. Some companies like SAS pay below the market rates but still score very high on best places to work for and these employees are highly motivated.
This is true, sometimes money is not the most important thing that people seeking for, so that it is not the best motivation for somebody.
As we all know about Maslow hierarchy of needs, people have physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs. Knowing at what level of needs a person is, we can motivate him the most.
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