Even for skeptics it's difficult to deny that you are what you think, to mis-quote Descartes and various diet gurus. That principle is one of the bases of cognitive therapy (not to mention lots of eastern philosophy) and works extremely well for most people - generally better than lying on a sofa for an hour a week telling someone about your mother.
(Apologies to the Freudians in the audience. I am not one.)
I have not seen this movie and most likely won't - an excess of self-helping zeal can make me just as suspicious as an excess of cynical jadedness... but mostly I just don't watch as many movies as I used to. (Books are another matter!) However, there's absolutely nothing wrong with motivating oneself to become a better person -- how else do you change the world but by starting with yourself? It beats the heck out of being complacent and expecting the world to "do for you" as so many do.
For an optimist, I'm really cynical. Or vice-versa.
