Limitless

Saw Limitless this week - it's the story of (no need for a spoiler alert, if you've seen the trailer you know the story but not the whole story, so go see the movie!) a guy down on his loser luck who pops this wonder pill - NZT - and his luck and life completely turn around.  He's writing books, playing piano concertos, learning languages, manufacturing algorithms to beat the market, being fitted for custom made suits (moviedom's symbol that you've made it) and living this incredible life.  There is no end to his brain capacity and no limit to what he can do.  He is Limitless.

The movie ends as it ends (not telling!) but I wish it didn't end that way.  What I wanted for everyone to discover at the end of the story was that NZT wasn't some complex pharmaceutical magic elixir at all, but a Tic Tac.  For The Coop (Bradley Cooper, of course.  Can I digress for a moment and admire the smile of God that befell Jennifer Garner, who, whilst on Alias, got to work with The Coop, Michael Vartan and the talented Victor Garber ?!) to learn that this newfound power of his limitless brain was a product of his own brain, of his own will.  He accomplished all this stuff because he simply believed he could, so he did.

We're all limitless.  We can set our bars high (Gold ! Medal ! Olympian !) or low (eat ! chips !) but either way it's up to our own brains to convince us that we can or can't do things.  Sometimes, the things we think we can do don't work out as we wanted or hoped but that doesn't matter.  What matters is the try, the belief, the do.  You don't need NZT for that - you just need you.

Do. Believe. Try.  Be Limitless.