A really inspiring lecture from a dying cancer patient...

If you haven't watched this before, I suggest you sit down now and just watch it. It's good for your mental health...



Quotes I like from his lecture (some of these are paraphrased from the talk):

1. Focus on other people, not on yourself.
2. Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
3. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
4. It's a shame if people see you as arrogant, because that's going to limit what you can accomplish in life.
5. Sometimes you get more from dreams that you didn't accomplish than from the ones you did accomplish.
6. The brick walls (obstacles) 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.
7. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be.

There's also a quote from another talk he gave about time management:

1. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

He's written a book called "The Last Lecture" based on this lecture at Carnegie Mellon. Visit this website to know more about the book.