Get busy living. Or get busy finding a better metric.
Why the roof? Because hope, for the truly trapped, is not escape. It is a five-minute break from thirst. The Shawshank Redemption Index, then, is a mirror. If you watch the film at twenty, you see a thriller about a clever banker. At thirty, a tragedy about a wrongful conviction. At forty, a love story between two men who saved each other’s lives without ever touching. The Shawshank Redemption Index
One such lens is what behavioral economists and film critics (in rare, fruitful collaboration) have begun to call (SRI). Get busy living