RIP Randy Pausch – “The Last Lecture”
YouTube – Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
If you want a shorter “trailer” version of this professor’s lecture, you can watch it here. I recommend watching all of it. It is worth it.
How do you know you’re at the finish line …
The main reason, people stop what they are doing before the job is completed is because, they do not have a picture of the finished product. In other words, to finish something, you must already know what it looks like in your mind.
~ Pastor Clyde C. Williams
I thought this was a pretty good quote. How do you know when something is finished when you don’t know what finish is?
Quite frequently, when I talk about kung fu to people, I always tell them “How do you know you are good when you do not know what good is?” Some people think they are awesome, but it is only because they have not seen the bigger fish.
When coaching dragonboat, I always point out other teams to my team. I have always found pictures of good teams to show them to my team in the hopes they can be inspired and can find higher levels to push themselves to.
In terms of life and in general, having goals is important. How do you know where to head, if you do not have goals. People might stop trying, even just short of achieving their goal, just because they do not have a clearly defined goal and not know where that finish line is.
I’m not exactly religious, but I happened to come by that quote while searching online.
‘Wall Street got drunk’ says Bush
“It got drunk and now it’s got a hangover,” Mr Bush said at a private political fundraiser in Houston, Texas.
[...]“The question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments?” the president asks in the clip.
Good old President Bush. What’s the world without some insanely humourous quote from one of the leading nations of this planet.
Made me think of the scene from Harold and Kumar when the pair dropped into the president’s ranch.