Don’t base your worth off
the amount of tasks you can complete in a day.
Base your worth off how you have grown and what you have learned. – Dr.
Caroline Leaf
Never lose sight of the
fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat
other people. – Barbara Bush
We learn from failure, not
from success! ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
Don’t waste a good mistake,
learn from it. - Robert Kiyosaki
Experience is what you get
when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable
thing you have to offer. ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Having an apartment fire is the last
thing that I thought would ever happen to me; however, through the process I
made new friends, lived a very disrupted life even though I like consistency,
learned how to stay calm while handling arduous situations and laughed in the
difficult times. All in all, I grew so
much, learned so much and changed so much.
AND probably the best lesson I learned from the fire is to live life to
the fullest.
Through one of my new friends, I was introduced
to The Last Lecture, which was a lecture given on September 18, 2007 by Randy
Pausch. Dr. Pausch was a professor of
computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr.
Pausch gave his last lecture because he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in
September 2006 and in August 2007 was given the terminal diagnosis of living
for 3 to 6 months. Dr. Pausch died on July
25, 2008 at 47.
Dr. Pausch’s ultimate goal of the lecture
was to discuss everything he wanted his kids to know after the cancer took his
life. Throughout the lecture and the
book, he discussed that everyone should have fun in everything they do and live
life to the fullest because we never know when it might be taken from us.
Probably one of the most memorable points
that Dr. Pausch made in his last lecture was:
It's not about how to
achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma
will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
I could not control the fact I had the
apartment fire; however, I could control how I lead my life and took advantage
of this disruption to Live Life to the Fullest!
CHALLENGE: Listen to
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch on YouTube or read the book.
Resources
The Last Lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
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