Aaron Sorkin’s screenwriting MasterClass covers perhaps his most significant turn of phrase… and that’s saying something, considering he also penned “You can’t handle the truth!”
“Intention and obstacle.” A character has a goal. The world gets in the way.
It doesn’t take too much life experience to see that such a concept extends far beyond the pages of a script or the borders of a screen. Career. Business. Technology. Love. What do we want? What’s stopping us?
This is a personal reflection on the tension between ambition and resistance, and why the balancing act may be the whole damn point.