A beautiful mind

For sure, one of the best movies that I've seen in the last weeks is "A beautiful mind", not that I didn't like the others - but this one made me think - and I know I got something out of it. You know - that feeling at the end of a book or a movie - when you know it contributed with something to your knowledge/development.
The movie tells the story of a brilliant mathematician who won in the end of his career "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994".His name is John Nash.
The main character has an abnormal college life as a graduate at Princeton - because of his passion for mathematics. he is recognized as not being sociable (" I don't like people and they don't like me")but he manages to make some friends and mary one of his students, Alicia. Everthing is wonderful until his ming is affected by Schizophrenia, and he is hospitalized.
I think the beautiful mind consist not only in the discoveries, formulas that he is working on, but also in the power of overcoming a mental disorder by a coscious effort. As he said when writing his biography for the Nobel prize: "Then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort."
And also from his own words: "Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future."

I think it is an example of not losing hope and continue to struggle with or own problems as we can consiously find/develop at least one solution for them, and solve them.

Also in the middle of the movie - Aine said something like " and all this work - to be able to teach when he got old" I think it is an essential conclusion, as whatever we know and we spent our life realizing will be worth "transitioning" or passing it on - our legacy. Thank you Aine for that remark :)

And also thanks for all the interesting discussions on the Nobel prize, the Prince of asturias prize, genius, Aiesec and many more :)