Hey Stellar Fans,
Have you seen the movie: American Gangster? The movie is based on the life of Frank Lucas, a drug dealer in New York, during the 60’s or 70’s. I am sure there were actual events added / omitted by the film makers. However the sum and substance is not that far off from the true story of Frank Lucas. I am not attempting to glorify a correlation between success and Frank Lucas, but there are a few things you can pick up from him.
In a bonus disc I have from the collectors’ addition, Denzel Washington (plays Frank Lucas) describes a particular conversation he had with Frank Lucas. Frank had told Denzel that there were times when he would clear everything out of a room, and confine himself to that room for months at a time. Frank said that he had only one purpose when he would do this (which was frequent). His purpose was to think about everything that happened in his life up to that point. He would analyze his past from most recent to as far back as he could remember. Frank Lucas then comes on the screen and summarizes that “there is not anything you can’t accomplish if you just think about it.”
That brings me to a close for now with a quote from a successful man that was not a criminal.
“Thinking is the hardest work there is which is the probable reason why so few engage in it”
Destry Brink
(currently holed up in an empty room thinking about my life) (with a computer).
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