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Success Tips From The Last Samurai

November 10, 2006

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Last night I found myself watching The Last Samurai on AMC and once again I was fascinated.

If you are not familiar with the story, Tom Cruise plays US Army Captain Nathan Algren, who becomes disillusioned by the way the post Civil War army is fighting indians in the American west so he takes a job in Japan to help train Japanese soldiers in modern weapons and tactics. He finds himself in the middle of a rebellion over there and gets captured by the leader of the traditionalist samurai faction that is resisting the changes in technology.

Cruise’s character is definitely a very flawed man. And there are some negative lessens in the movie such as the futility of resisting technological advances.

But I found a couple of positive lessons in the movie that just leaped out at me. The first one was this:

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