TOP 6 Movies That Will Inspire You To Think, Dream Big & Achieve More in Life

Compiled by Florence Mukunya,

The weekend is here and it’s that time when we get to relax and become couch potatoes. It’s been a stressful week whether you’ve been job searching or you’ve had a long working week, a good movies will always help you shed that stress off.

While most of us buy movies with the idea of being entertained in mind, movies have become not just a source of entertainment but an inspirational escapism for most. Some movies have a career inspiring theme.

Today let’s look at movies that have inspired careers and movies that have allowed people to think, dream and achieve more.

1. The Wall Street
A movie about a junior stock broker who is desperate to get to the top and to work side by side with his hero, a legendary wall street player, he does everything to be like this guy including doing dirty work such as being a spy, which makes him end up facing a possible jail term, may be it a lesson for those of us who feel they would do anything in order to land our dream job.

2.The internship
It s a very emotional movie but then again it has a clear lesson for those trying to make it in the job market.

Juggling various careers and going back to work as a inter. with no pay is very common in today’s job market as the careers most of us studied for have nothing to offer, it’s a movies, yes, but at the end of the day it teaches us to have patience and to strive harder until something happens.

3.The Devil wears Prada
This is a movie about a fresh aspiring journalist who landed a job at a Runway fashion magazine.

Andy who does not know much about the fashion industry but she does not give up easily and makes it her job to learn on the job and not quit a lesson many of us should borrow from her.

4.The social network
It’s the story of how Facebook became an online business empire. Brave and extreme decisions were made and the overall lesson here is the struggle and will that many have seen in all types of business start-up’s not just in the online space.

5.21 Jump Street
It’s a movie about two police officer, who disguise themselves as students to uncover a crime. This movie possibly inspires a career in law enforcement; it’s full of action and has a few life lessons such as the extents and the extra mile you have to go to achieve results in your work.

6.Ratatouille
It is a cartoon movie about an idealistic and ambitious young rat, gifted with highly developed senses of taste and smell. He inspired by his idol, the recently deceased chef Auguste Gusteau, Remy dreams of becoming a cook himself. He is a rat, the lesson here being no matter how inadequate we may look, we should believe in ourselves and put our best foot forward and make the best we can out of our situation.

Enjoy your weekend and grab yourself one of these movies in case you have not watched them.

What other movies do you know that follow under this line?

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