Best Life Lessons from 12 Angry Men
What the timeless film can teach you about leadership and persuasion.
12 Angry Men (1957) features one of the most unique movie formats: a group of 12 jurors in a single room for essentially the entirety of the film with the only conflict involving dialogue and no action. It’s stood the test of time for excellence by remaining as #5 in the list of IMDb’s top-rated movies, even though now it’s over 60 years old. In fact, at the time of writing, the next oldest movie after 12 Angry Men in the IMDb top ratings is #19 — Seven Samurai (1954).
What makes 12 Angry Men stand out is — as mentioned — its different format approach from other movies but more importantly its lessons of leadership and persuasion that it can continue to teach us. 12 Angry Men separates itself as an influential film in only its 96 minutes of runtime, especially now in an age where arguing is seen as bad and proper discourse isn’t for everyone.
*Spoilers to the film 12 Angry Men*
Leadership
“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” — Margaret Thatcher
The film provides an interesting take on leadership as we watch Juror 8 flip the opinion of the entire jury, who originally thought…
