Forbes magazine has a really fun and actually quite good article giving tips for success from James Bond. (I’ll leave a link to the article below.) But there’s one thing they don’t address quite enough for me: the fact that all of this stuff is written by scriptwriters who don’t have anything like the same life experience of a James Bond. I mean, sure, the scripts are based upon novels written by a real-life intelligence guy, but they’re written very tongue-in-cheek, and I think the movies especially are supposed to be kind of a spoof. So at the end of this article, I think it would have been helpful for them to have added: “Of course, if this stuff doesn’t work out for you, please remember that James Bond is a fictional character, and keep telling yourself: ‘It’s only a movie! It’s only a movie!’” (That was the tagline for many horror movies in the 1970s.) Because after all, things generally work out for the hero of a movie, because the script is written that way. So you might want to ask yourself: are you in a movie right now?
Here’s the secret agent article:
