Millie Bobby Brown is proof that the best heroes are built from unexpected bricks. She didn’t invent Eleven from thin air; she borrowed the gumption of a fictional grandmother.
So here’s your challenge for this week: find your own “Dot Cotton.” Look at the quirky elders, the fictional characters, or the eccentric neighbors who make you laugh.
Steal their swagger. Borrow their patience. Add a dash of their judgmental side-eye to your own repertoire. You’ll be surprised how much easier it is to face your own monsters—metaphorical or otherwise—when you’ve got a little bit of soap-opera steel in your spine.
Go ahead. Rewatch an EastEnders clip. Watch a Stranger Things scene. You’ll see the spark jump from a London square to a Hawkins lab. And you can catch that spark, too.
Life is more fun when you realize that even the weirdest connections make the best stories. Go find yours.
