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Bone Density Scanners By Chris Gardner Analysis
Question 1: There are 3 main message in this story :-
a) You must have passion for the work you do.
At the beginning of the movie, Chris Gardner is a medical equipment salesman and he invested his family’s savings in a portable device, which is a bone-density scanner. His work is carrying this bone density scanners demonstrate and sell to the doctors but unfortunately, hospital think that bone density scanners are luxuries and expensive and lead to this machines are not easy to sell. Even sometimes Chris Gardner not able to sell one in 2 months.
As Chris Gardner tries to figure out how to sell the machines, he has encountered the biggest setback in his life. Struggling to make ends meet, his wife Linda has been unable to endure the pressures of life, Linda leaves him and moves to New York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor. In order to improve living conditions, Chris Gardner decided to change jobs to do stockbroker. He meets a manager for Dean Witter and impresses him by solving a Rubik's Cube during a short cab ride. This makes him earn a chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter.
But his life won’t so easy, he have to struggles to work his
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The largest power motivation and the reason Chris can able to face those numerous setbacks is his son Christopher. When he becomes destitute, life becomes more harder than before, his thoughtful son give him 100% trust and love is cannot be given by other people. When he became one of the 20 interns, in order he want to become stockbroker and give his son a comfortable life, he had to use all the time to call all the customer, didn’t eat and drink during his work because of it he can save his time and will not go to the toilet and can early finish work to pick up his son to fight for a bed to sleep in home shelter before 5

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