The Shawshank Redemption Index !link!

Application: Do you work harder when your boss is standing behind you? Or do you operate at the same intensity at 3:00 AM on a Tuesday? The SRI suggests that the work done in the dark—the studying, the saving, the coding, the writing—is exponentially more valuable than the work done under the spotlight.

Andy Dufresne digs his tunnel for 19 years. He does not day-trade his freedom; he invests in it daily, chipping away at the wall and hiding the debris in the yard. This is the "Rock Hammer Strategy." The Shawshank Redemption Index

The reason the film scores so high on this "index" is its masterful exploration of the human spirit. Application: Do you work harder when your boss

: Some articles explore the film through the lens of Freud’s "uncanny," looking at how the prison acts as a "simulacrum" of society [8]. Humanization Andy Dufresne digs his tunnel for 19 years