There is a lesson in the new Disney Ratatouille: do what you are. Remy the rat was faced with doing something that he was: he was a cook which went against the logic of almost everything else he was. As a rat in a kitchen, Remy had a very serious culinary image problem. Because of his size, cooking tools were essentially unmanageable as the illustration shows in his struggle with a spice shaker. Nonetheless, Remy knew that he was a cook and he managed to make it a successful go of it. There is a lesson for us all in Remy’s story. Our times are complex and choices proliferate. We have even created multitasking so that we justify doing several things at once. The lesson Remy has for us is not about changing our times, throwing up our paws at the complexity. I think Remy’s story has a different lesson, which is: if you are lucky enough to discover something you are, be that with all your might and imagination. For me right now, I am a blogger.
I am a blogger at: GoldenSwamp.com, Learnodes.com, and Howard Rheingold’s SmartMobs.com.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:53 am
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