Remember Randy Pausch? A master of getting the most out of life....regardless of the circumstances. This is a great way to get focused for the upcoming Mind Rev Weekendn as well as the rest of our lives....what do you think?
I think these are the best of Randy Pausch quotes.....I hope you get as much out of them as I.
- Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day, because there’s no other way to play it.
- We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
- We don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.
- It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s all about leading your life. If you lead your life in a right way, karma will take care of itself. And dreams will come to you.
- If I only had three words of advice, they would be, tell the truth. If I got three more words, I’d add, all the time.
- The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
- Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.
- Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
- Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
- When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
- Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
- Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.
- Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
- Don’t complain. Just work harder. That’s a picture of Jackie Robinson. It was in his contract not to complain, even when the fans spit on him.
- Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great man who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is the listening to it.
- When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.
- If you’re going to do anything that pioneering you will get those arrows in the back, and you just have to put up with it.
- Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
- I probably got more from that dream and not accomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.
- I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.
If you haven’t done so already, watch the last lecture and read the book which provides a bit of background information to better understand the man and his story.