Cognitive And Psychosocial Theories In About Schmidt

A. 5 Cognitive and Psychosocial Theories

“About Schmidt” was an excellent, eye-opening kind of movie. I watched the movie one night, and then I decided to research the movie. Warren Schmidt is forced to deal with a random future as he enters retirement. Soon after, his wife passes away and he must come to terms with his daughter’s marriage to a man he does not care for and the failure that his life has become. At his retirement party, another gentlemen states that Warren as devoted his life to something meaningful. He is respected by the community and has created wonderful, lasting friendship. Warren left his retirement party to go to the bar side of the building and ordered vodka. Warren did not look content with his retirement, his
He would place somewhere on the continuum of personality attributes such as extroverted to introverted, passive to aggressive, and optimistic to pessimistic. All throughout the movie, I can see where Warren was sometimes extroverted and introverted. I can see where he was passive about certain things and aggressive about others. He was pretty pessimistic at the beginning of the movie. He was pessimistic about his wife, about his retirement, and about his daughter marrying a boy whom he did not like. Towards the end he was optimistic about life. He went to his daughter’s wedding with no incident. He had some closure with his wife as he seen the shooting star. Warren was once again pessimistic at the end, stating that he was weak and a failure. He stated that there was no way in getting around it. Relatively soon, he is going to die anyways. Once he dies, it’ll be as though he never existed. His perspective was that he never made a different in anyone’s
I can personally relate Schmidt’s search for meaning in his life

I can relate to Warren’s search for meaning in his life. I often question all the decisions that I make in life. I always question what I want to do with my life. I have a fear of failure. I am trying to do my best with all my schoolwork, new job, and waitressing on the weekends. I feel this consumes my life and that my social life is passing by. I barely have time to visit with my family, especially my boyfriend. I feel this relates to Warren. I believe he was happy to be retiring, but in the same sense, he felt as if he did not do much to be remembered. He even went to visit the insurance company that he worked for, and the new employee stated that he had everyone under control. I think this made Warren feel that his job was not of that much