For Starters #20: What's Your Resistance to Getting in the Middle of It?
In 2005, Dr. Barry Marshall received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Dr. Marshall’s benefit to all humankind was the result of self-inflicting three days of vomiting and a massive gastric inflammation requiring significant antibiotics to correct.
Fletch is one of my all-time favorite movies. I recently re-watched in as part of an ongoing ‘How does it hold up to today?’ question I have about all my favorite movies (Airplane! - still hilarious, Blazing Saddles - even better!, Bladerunner - eh). In my rewatch of Fletch, I saw something I haven’t seen before: embedding yourself is how you get the highest quality information. In retrospect, I think it’s Fletch’s comfort - if not default expectation - with embedding himself enamored me from the beginning.
The value of putting yourself in the middle of it is not news to Dr. Marshall or acclaimed writer Barbara Ehrenreich - who frequently went undercover to better understand working Americans’s daily challenges.
