There Is No Secret Ingredient
I just watched the movie, Kung Fu Panda. You may think that the movie isn’t appropriate in this blog. But I just got a good and inspiring lesson from the movie:
“There is no secret ingredient”
That is the secret of Po’s father in his family’s popular secret ingredient noodle soup. The secret has been passed from generations and as he believes that it is Po’s destiny as well, he told him the secret when Po was depressed after finding out that the Dragon Scroll has nothing written on it. He was just chosen as the Dragon Warrior who will defend the Valley of Peace from Tai Lung who wants to get hold of the Dragon Scroll.
The secret of the noodle soup, which is “there is no secret,” has given Po the realization that things become special because people believe them to be special. Just like the popular noodle soup ingredient of his family, people believed it to be special that is why it became special. Po then thought that this is the very essence of the Dragon Scroll. As he sees his reflection in the scroll, he thought that the power of the Dragon Scroll is within him. So he went back to help Shifu.
Believing in his own power, he used his strengths against Tai Lung. Yes he is fat, but he used it to defeat Tai Lung. He attacked Tai Lung with his own improvised combat style using his hugeness to absorb and deflect the force from Tai Lung’s attacks.
Po is right that things become special because people believe them to be special. Believing that you are special will make you become real special. Just like Po, believe in the power within you and you will succeed.