If you haven’t seen Randy Pausch’s last lecture on achieving your childhood dreams that has been floating around the Internet yet, watch it now. I’ll wait.
What an awesome and insightful human being. Seriously if you haven’t seen it it is worth the hour long investment if only to see hear his wry jokes and see him pull off those one-handed push ups.
One of the most insightful things I learned from Randy is the role of brick walls.
“Brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
What a great attitude. I talked about something similar in my first MeshugAvi Blog post ever. There is no doubt in my mind that Tal Ben-Shahar would have shown a clip of Randy talking about this idea in class for that session. He’s just nailed the right attitude to achieving your dreams on the head and for me it ties in nicely to my earlier thoughts on massive action.
Another quote of Randy’s that gets at the idea of embracing the suck during those times when the needed work isn’t to your liking:
“Don’t bail; the best gold is at the bottom of barrels of crap.”
So what are the brick walls in your life? How are you going to throw yourself over them or tear them down? What helps aside from massive action?
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