Rose Tyler's Resource (Doctor Who)

I watched BBC's Doctor Who for the first time last night. (It is on Hong Kong's ATV International every Sunday night at 11:45 pm.) I immediately fell in love with the drama's class C sci-fi stupidity and sophisticated, subtle sense of humour. Anyway, it's very British.

And I am also stupid enough to draw a lesson from the first episode of Doctor Who (the fifth series?). It is what Rose Tyler, who will soon be Doctor's close friend, says when she decides to rescue Doctor, who has just failed in persuading the Nestene Consciousness, an alien monster to leave the Planet Earth.

She says (I don't remember exactly) that she did not pass the college entrance exam (A-level?) and she has no job but she got a bronze medal in gymnastics when she was on the third grade. (If anyone knows the exact line, please leave a comment!)

The bronze medal from a primary school gymnastics competition (it did not sound that it was from a national- or even regional-level competition) gives her the confidence to risk her life to rescue Doctor. A bronze medal from the primary school days! It sounds no big deal but it has been one of the sources of her confidence so it worked. It's somewhat NLPish, too...

So we all can cherish the small but personally significant achievements. They will give you the resources you need!