This World Needs Mavericks

Or, the difference between filtered and unfiltered personalities

 
Can we turn our ‘negative’ qualities into superpowers?

In the movie Top Gun: Maverick, it has been over thirty years since Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell graduated from TOPGUN, but even after all these years he’s still a test pilot with the rank of Captain.

While he has won many honours over the years, repeated insubordination has kept him from flag rank. His TOPGUN friend (and former rival) Tom “Iceman” Kazansky has been protecting Maverick all this time from being grounded.

Maverick is called back to TOPGUN to train an elite group of graduates for an almost impossible mission, but he isn’t a teacher.

There’s a scene where Iceman tells Maverick that he still has a lot of offer to the Navy, that’s why he specially requested for Maverick to train the pilots. This is a mission where traditional thinking won’t cut it. This is an extreme situation, and the navy needs an unorthodox personality.

“The navy needs Maverick.”

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