Lessons from ‘Down and Out’

The recently aired movie ‘Down and Out’ is reminiscent of how the merriest comedies could emanate from the bitterest facts. Let’s review six lessons for your career, from the well-structured screenplay in part 1 of the film’s review.

The movie comes in two parts, the first half in which Iraj, the lead character, behaves arrogantly toward others; and the second, when he is humbled. Drawing a parallel with your own life, you might want to consider the following tips to avoid Iraj’s mistake.

ONE

Organizations are more important than individuals, as the film depicts. Iraj thinks if he leaves the firm, they’ll be crippled, as he considers himself more knowledgeable than the firm he works in. But as he says goodbye, the company survives; do employees affect organizations’ value? Or do organizations comprise effective staff who in turn, make the firm progress. But at the end of the day, no employee or manager could possibly claim they are more powerful than their affiliated workplaces.

TWO

The trap of ‘pride’ is the most dangerous of all. There are many traps on the way of organizations, but pride is an obstacle not easy to pass. If a person or firm, suppose they’re successful and at the summit of their life cycle, they could forget about the probably hard days ahead. The market situation nowadays makes it inevitable to go through momentary changes at times, and being trapped with pride, means that you’ve got no plans for those moments to come. Iraj is a person who faces such a thing. At the outset, he says ‘What are these guys happy about? I hate miserable people’. But he’s forgotten that the distance between happiness and desolation is short, and one should not be so proud, so that they devise no plans for the future.

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