Ted Lasso

Sometimes you need an escape.  My daughter, who turned 30 yesterday, (Happy Birthday Gen!) told me to watch Ted Lasso.  I avoided all social media and all newsprint media on the show.  We finally started watching it. It’s awesome.

Of course, we watched it with subtitles.  I don’t understand heavy British accents….and I am sure they’d have trouble with my Chicago accent.

There is so much crap on all the channels now.  I am reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song “57 Channels and Nothings On.”  Not only that, we are being force-fed a bunch of bullshit too about social this and social that.  I am so looking forward to the deprogramming Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric has for me.

So far, Ted Lasso avoids politics and just tells a good story.

The other thing that you can pull out of it is that the character of Ted Lasso exhibits extremely high emotional intelligence. Of course, it’s a short streamable television show so it’s not reality.  But, it is there and like an amuse-bouche at a gourmet dinner, it whets your appetite for more if you are curious.

Regular readers of this blog know my feelings on this topic.  To refresh, I was a denier of a lot of the EQ theory when I first heard it from my friend Raman Chadha of the Junto Institute.  I thought it was psychological babble.  We met James Liataud in his apartment for a few hours and when I walked out I realized Raman was correct.  Mr. Liautaud had taken five companies public by the time he was 55 and instilled the EQ principles in his son’s business when he invested in it.  His son started the Jimmy John’s sandwich chain.

The show is streamable on Apple+, so you have to be able to do that.  

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