10/22/2024
I love that at 37, I am still learning new things about myself. This month, I learned I LOVE classic horror movies!
Thanks to the “Horror 101” category on I’ve been binge watching movies this month.
I missed all of them being a scaredy cat for most of my life.
What I’m realizing is to love horror movies is to (a) love villains and (b) love process. Let me explain:
You don’t usually get a happy ending in horror movies.
They usually end with everyone dead, people surviving but probably dying in the near future, people surviving but fu***ng traumatized, or a cliffhanger.
Whether you think the movie was good normally depends on the villains.
👻 Are they scary?
👻 Are they interesting?
👻 Are they memorable?
Miss one of those and you probably won’t like the movie in question.
And those are so subjective, that everyone is bound to have a different opinion.
I don’t like slasher movies bc I don’t find the villains interesting. They just wanna slash? BORING.
In that way, villains show us how to succeed in business, career, and life.
We’re more likely to find clients and jobs when we are scary good at something, interesting, and memorable.
And bc these endings are usually depressing AF, you gotta love the *process* of the movie.
It’s not about the ending—two people winding up together, a mystery getting solved, winning the big game, overcoming the obstacle, etc.
Instead, you enjoy it for the spook, scares, and eerie feelings you get along the way.
That’s the other lesson for success:
If everything you do is geared toward the payoff at the end like a paycheck or achievement, work will always feel like a slog.
The truth is that you need to live for the work itself.
The process is what brings the happiness, not the payout.
And the lessons for what you need to incorporate can be found in your favorite villains, the villains you love to the, and the emotions of fear and hatred themselves.
All of it carries wisdom that can help us find the balance we need to connect with joy, money, and abundance.
Anyway, here are the classics I’ve watched this month:
Night of the Living Dead ✅
The Omen (1976) ✅
Rosemary’s Baby ✅
(Cont’d in comments)