I like to watch shows on streaming services, particularly ones that are of recent events and factual. I’ve been watching The Dropout on Hulu, for those unfamiliar, the show which is a limited series follows Elizabeth Holmes from her time at Stanford when she decides to drop out of course and venture into medical entrepreneurship but working on a device that can take a single drop of blood and run multiple tests on it.
In theory this would be a game changer, no need to take vials of blood to run tests on. Of course as we know now, the machine never materialized at least in a working form, even worse she committed massive fraud and in the process transforms herself into a Silicon Valley mogul or at least fancies herself as one.
Finishing that one, I decided to watch Inventing Anna also based on the true story of Anna Sorokin, a Russian-born immigrant to Germany who comes to New York City disguising herself as a German heiress and commits a series of financial fraud on both investors and friends.
Both of these series are very well put together and I recommend watching them. But watch them with one thing in mind, we shouldn’t get lost into being someone we are not, we need to be brave enough to live a genuine life, authentic. We all fail and failing is not a bad thing, they are great teachers and motivators to make us better, to thrive and challenge ourselves to succeed.
