Tom Cruise is great. I can’t think of a better example of The American Type.
As I said in my last article, America is ISTP.
In addition to that, it is an enneatype 3 ISTP. For those that understand enneagram, great. For those that don’t, Google is your friend. 
Winning. That is what America is all about. That is what the movie Risky Business is about.
For those who haven’t seen this excellent movie, it is about a boy who is on the cusp of becoming A MAN.
Joel (Tom Cruise’s character) lives with his parents in a very nice neighborhood.
For his parents, it is all about Joel getting into the best college, in this case, Princeton.
Joel is in that strange position of being a marginal achiever. He hasn’t quite done Ivy League level work that would get him into Princeton.
The basic premise of this movie comes down to the one-liner:
Sometimes you gotta say what the fuck?
The movie is all about taking a risk. It is the risk that is the most important element in success…
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