Exactly one year ago, I watched the complete season of the movie titled “suits”. Over the years, I’ve seen quite a handful of movies but I don’t think anyone comes close to suit on the number of valuable lessons I learnt about human psychology, leadership, office politics, career and relationship success.
I’d share about 5 of them, let’s see how many you can relate with.
1. Leadership Lesson:
There are people you should take your chance with even if they are not fully qualified. This I’d say directly to HR and business leaders. Listening to your intuition might just be the game changer you require in your organization.
Harvey Specter gave Mike Ross the opportunity when he least deserved it and it resulted in an extremely mutual benefit relationship.
2. Human Psychology Lesson:
Many of your adulthood problems are rooted in unresolved childhood trauma or were formed during your childhood/teenagehood. Except you actually are willing to trace the root of why people say “you are too proud”, “too careless” “so rude” “unforgiving” etc to you all the time. Or you don’t understand why you have spending issues, can’t keep a friendship/relationship.
Harvey Specter was a successful career guy but had issues in having a decent relationship with women. When he decided to see a therapist, it was traced to a childhood trauma of how his mom treated his father. He couldn’t forgive or let go. That made him treat women as objects. It took him a long time but he did. You too can. You probably have formed this habit for more than 10,15,20years or more, give it time but ensure you work on it.
3. Human Psychology Lesson:
There’s no end to the damage Jealousy can do. I read a story of a man who thought his wife was cheating on him because he found so many letters in her wardrobe. Without reading them, he beat her brutally. He was locked up and when the police decided to read the contents of the letter, they were letters he had written to her some many years back when he was still in so much love with her. She had kept them.
I can’t enumerate how many times Louis’ unnecessary jealousies almost wrecked the law firm. In fact, Jessica Pearson did a great job in weathering the many crises that hit them. Mike Ross being exposed as a fraud and many more can be directly attributed to Louis.
4. Relationship Lessons:
You can be a very successful career person and still have a woeful marriage relationship life. It’s not rocket science really. Whatever you consciously work on and build will yield desired results.
The case of Jessica Pearson and Harvey Specter is stunning. Two adorable successful career people but failed to learn the A-Z of relationships. It’s an embodiment of hard work, conscious learning, much knowledge, compromise sometimes, reading books, learning and unlearning, understanding and enjoying the differences of sexes etc.
5. Career Success Lesson:
Be the first, most and only in whatever career you choose. It doesn’t matter if you are the cleaner, the driver, the welder or the plumber. Be the best! Oh heavens, no one beats the magnificent Donna in her field. Her absence made Harvey Specter, the great very sick.
Again, you can’t rise to prominence without understanding how important people and the relationship you form with them are.
Let me stop here. Please add yours in the comment. I’m sure so many of us have lessons from the movie.
A recap of the lessons
*There are ‘people’ you should take your chance with even when you feel they are not fully qualified
*Many of your adulthood problems are rooted in unresolved childhood trauma
*There’s no end to the damage Jealousy can do
*Marriage or relationship should be worked or learned just like we study courses in schools
*Be the first, most and only in whatever career you choose
1st day at work.
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