alt Hacker News> Good Will Hunting. The entire movie feels like it could’ve been skipped if literally any emotionally intelligent person said to Matt Damon’s character: “I feel like you have a tremendous amount of intellectual potential that you’re wasting here — why are you getting in fights rather than trying to do something interesting?”
Maybe I'm missing something but that's literally what everyone in the movie is telling Will. HIs best friend, his mentor, his girlfriend, his therapist. They all literally say this in some form during the movie. His character growth is believing it himself.
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they probably missed that little bit of the movie with the psychologist giving Will treatment to try to keep him from wasting his potential. Easy mistake to make.
INdeed. The entire point of Chuckie's "If you're still here in 20 years I'll kill you" was just that.
Yeah I’m pretty sure his girlfriend, best friend, and therapist all pretty much explicitly tell him that.
"It's not your fault"
(also the graph theory examples in the beginning are really simple. Good Will Hunting is not really great as a math movie. I preferred 'Proof' with Paltrow, Hopkins, etc)
Yeah, not only are people doing this, but this is possibly one of the most common problems int he real world with real people. The blog post may have some helpful suggestions, but these descriptions seem to signal a really large "human people understanding" blind spot. The author's circle of friends may all be high EQ, well adjusted people, but this just isn't representative of the real world. (Which its fine to ignore, but don't pretend thats not the case!)