Tony Montana was a political refuge from Cuba. He came to the United States to flee the undesirable living conditions of communist Cuba. Initially when he arrives to the US, he is put in a refugee camp and they live in very impoverished conditions, but that is an improvement from living in Cuba. Mani comes up with a way to get them out of the camp they need to do a favor for a local Miami kingpin, they need
to take out one of Castro’s goons that tortured the kingpin’s brother to death. Castro couldn’t trust the man who was to be targeted by Tony and Mani, so he found his way into the camp.

Tony dispatches the man and is gifted a green card. With the green card his condition once again improved, and he was on his way. But it started off slow, he worked as a dishwasher in a busy restaurant while his friend Mani worked the counter. Angered that he did not come to America to break his back washing dishes, he seeks to improve his situation, he sees is later with a sign that says, “the world is yours”, that is what he wants the world and everything in it. Not just an improvement but total ambition for dominance, I could have picked a better example to show the improvement concept, but I like Scarface, Pacino is in my opinion the second-best actor after Gary Oldman.

I took this class from AMA (American Management Association) called “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” The goal of the class was to improve and round your overall approach to life and your ability to succeed. These types of classes are what I call the soft sciences; they are not empirical in my mind. You cannot take a person and crank them through the course and get the same result each time. There is growth in whatever aspect the person needs to grow from taking the course, but each person is different.

I would elaborate more on the methodology, but it would be better for you to take the course or read Covey’s book. The idea is our aura, or being is like a tree. We need to develop good roots to spread out long and healthy limbs and produce a full set of leaves on the outside. We must internally understand ourselves before we can outwardly change the world we live in. It’s a good book, the concepts are good
and you can truly take away a lot from it. The teaching is only as good as the student who takes the knowledge, if you don’t apply it, you won’t see its fruition.

Improvement is mostly a human element. You don’t see dogs training their minds and bodies to become better dogs. I am not talking about dogs in obedient training courses that their owners take them to, they are subjected to that training because the owner takes their dog to the class. On their own the dog is content to enjoy their life as is.

We don’t. We want better. We need more. We need improvement.

Author: admin

Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.