WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM SUPER SPY JASON BOURNE IV

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#4: Last, but not least, Jason Bourne was very obsessed with his sense of purpose - to find out the truth, to find out who he really was.

At one point, he almost wanted to give up, because he didn't want the people around him he cared so much about to be hurt in the process.

Remember the particular scene at the farmhouse in 'The Bourne Identity', where he just stood quietly in front of the two kids who were already in deep sleep on their beds, while staying overnight with Marie's old boyfriend, & an awakened Marie came to look for him.

To me, that was his defining moment as a man with great responsibility.

As a result, he was very result-oriented in what he wanted to do, & nothing was going to stop him from attaining his focused objectives.

His sense of purpose, fueled by a sense of responsibility, & result-orientation gave him that sharp edge - & more importantly, great power - to deal with imminent dangers as he pursued the people who wronged him from the very beginning.

From 'The Bourne Identity' to 'The Bourne Ultimatum', what started off as an initial search for vengeance became a final quest for atonement for him, as he pulled & put all the missing pieces of the whole puzzle together, with the unsolicited help of Pamela Landy & Nicky Parsons of course.

As he began to realise he was a soldier, with the name of David Webb & with the desire to serve his country, he just couldn't forget all the deadly mistakes he had commited under duress, & he was going to right them, for once & for all.

I really like the scene at the safe house in Paris in 'The Bourne Identity' when he cornered his rogue CIA coordinator, Conklin, & said to him:

"I swear to God, if I even feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast & how hard I will bring this fight to your door step. I'm on my own side now."

The fact that he didn't shoot the rogue CIA bigwig, Abbott, in 'The Bourne Supremacy' (but recorded the latter's confession), the Russian police officer at the opening scene [translated from Russian: "My fight is not with you", as he told the pleading officer], & the pursuing CIA assassin (Paz) in New York after the stunning car crash at the end segment of 'The Bourne Ultimatum', as well as his own confession to the Russian girl, whose parents were killed in his first assignment, & also his revelation to the brother of Marie about Marie's unfortunate death, truly reflected his powerful choice & personal commitment to reintegrate into the human race.

After watching the three Bourne movies, I have come to understand that, actually deep down in every one of us as human beings, we all have this ardent desire to do good, & not evil.

As shown in the movies, even with "behavioural modification training", our basic human nature was hard to crack.

The moment Jason Bourne knew exactly who he was, he knew precisely what he wanted to do.

As he told Pamela Landy after handing over to her the documentary evidence about the clandestine Blackbriar Project, which he had stolen earlier from Noah Vosen's office in New York, in the concluding segment of 'The Bourne Ultimatum':

"This is where it started for me. This is where it ends."

Looking back, I reckon that clarity of purpose in his head was what had really kept him alive & going for so long on the run.

Coming back to the real world, if first we know who we really are, then it gives us tremendous power to choose who we can be & what we can do; in other words, it becomes easier for us to define our true purpose in life & to pursue our fondest dreams.

Great philosophers like Socrates, Lao Tzu & even the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu as well as the legendary Japanese combat strategist Miyamoto Musashi, had affirmed this powerful success secret.

Know thyself & be purpose-driven.