There more than 1 lakh self books to choose from at amazon.com. These self help books are self prescribed motivational pills which help us when we are down. The effect of these books is temporary and lasts only for few days. No wonder we have so many best sellers. I believe that speeches given by individuals whose lives are truly inspiring and motivating are more impactful and moving than reading these slef help books.
One such talk was given by Randy Pausch, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He gave his last lecture at the university on achieving your childhood dreams. His speech is full of humour, antidotes and surprises. It is an hour long speech but every second of it is worth it. In case you are time starved then you can pick up his book and read at leisure.
Some of my favourite quotes from his lecture are noted below.
- We cannot change the cards we are dealt just how we play the hand.
- Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
- You got the get the fundamentals down because the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
- When you are screwing up and nobody's saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up.
- When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be.
- You critics are the one who tell you they still love you and care.
- Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
- Become a professor because you are such a good salesman that any company who gets you is going to use as a salesman and you might as well be selling something worthwhile like education.
- Be prepared: 'luck' is where preparation meets opportunity.
- Find the best in everybody; no matter how much long you have to wait for them to show it.
- Be good at something: it makes you valuable.
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These pearls inspires to dive deep..!
...Ashish
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