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Pop Culture Career Lessons

Several films and shows, each used to make one career or life lesson stick. Every lesson links back to the core pages it reinforces.

Film / Show	Links to Pop Culture Career/Life Lessons	Connects To
Secondhand Lions	The Rest of the Speech	Mentoring Integration with Stage Development
Star Trek: Enterprise	Challenge Your Preconceptions or They Will Challenge You	Who is Dr. Docter?, Technical Career Stages
Star Trek: The Original Series	Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (IDIC)	Mentoring Integration with Stage Development, Technical Career Stages
Star Wars: A New Hope	Han Shot First!	Setting and Accomplishing Development Goals, Challenge Your Preconceptions or They Will Challenge You, Technical Career Stages, Emails Escalate Disputes, Only What You Take With You, From "Sliced Bread" to Patent
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back	Only What You Take With You	Who is Dr. Docter?, Technical Career Stages, Mentoring Integration with Stage Development, Teammates or Competitors?, Building Your Network, Getting Graded on Group Projects is Fair
Blade Runner	Like Tears in Rain	Technical Career Stages, Mentoring Integration with Stage Development
Jurassic Park	The Failed Expert	Technical Career Stages, Stress Management & Resilience, Mentoring Integration with Stage Development
The Princess Bride	Dread Pirate Roberts Succession Plan	Technical Career Stages, Who is Dr. Docter?, Mentoring Integration with Stage Development, Setting and Accomplishing Development Goals, The Needs of the Many
The Matrix	You Can't Take Both Pills	Stress Management & Resilience

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