Lesson #2 Journal Entry
Thoughts on Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
I really enjoyed Randy Pausch's last lecture. Instead of skimming the transcript, I went and found the full lecture on Youtube and watched the full thing. I think that Pausch was able to achieve so many of his childhood dreams because he never took no for an answer. No never really meant no, it just meant not right now. He had unique ways of thinking that enabled him to climb over the brick wall, to use his metaphor. I think that dreaming is important because it inspires us to be better than we are now and gives us purpose in this life. As Pausch pointed out, even those dreams he didn't actually achieve, helped him to be so much more. Reaching for them made him a better person or even put him on paths he may have never gone down otherwise. One of my childhood dreams was to own a Steinway grand piano, preferably a 9 foot. When I was a teen, I played one in a show room and it costs $90,000. I just looked it up and they now cost about $150,000. Even though I now have a room I could put one, I just don't think I could ever make my family pay for something that expensive, even if it was a feasible expense. It's easy to dream and spend other people's (or your own imaginary) money, but there are just better things to do with that kind of money and now those are my dreams.
Lessons Learned
I really loved the assignment to complete a bucket list during this lesson. I have never done that before and felt very overwhelmed at first. With some brainstorming sessions with friends and family and some deep reflection, I have a list that I'm excited to work on! I keep learning the lesson (it just never sticks) that I need to write things down. Goals, aspirations, what I'm going to do today, everything should be written down. It gives those things meaning in our lives. I really learned a lot from Randy Pausch's last lecture. I'm not going to write more on that, but I'm very inspired by his life. I mentioned in the last post that something I wanted to do was read "The Richest Man in Babylon." I have it on hold at the library and should be starting it here in the next week or so as soon as I am done with the assigned reading books for my class. I'm excited to learn from it.
Lessons Not Yet Learned
I finished the book, "The Ministry of Business" and I want to implement "The Formula" in my life. I'm not sure exactly how that's going to happen, so that is kind of my vague goal for this week. I need to sit down and go over it step by step and make some concrete goals that I can work on. I'm kind of hoping I can get my husband to read the book and get on board with it, but we will see.
I really enjoyed Randy Pausch's last lecture. Instead of skimming the transcript, I went and found the full lecture on Youtube and watched the full thing. I think that Pausch was able to achieve so many of his childhood dreams because he never took no for an answer. No never really meant no, it just meant not right now. He had unique ways of thinking that enabled him to climb over the brick wall, to use his metaphor. I think that dreaming is important because it inspires us to be better than we are now and gives us purpose in this life. As Pausch pointed out, even those dreams he didn't actually achieve, helped him to be so much more. Reaching for them made him a better person or even put him on paths he may have never gone down otherwise. One of my childhood dreams was to own a Steinway grand piano, preferably a 9 foot. When I was a teen, I played one in a show room and it costs $90,000. I just looked it up and they now cost about $150,000. Even though I now have a room I could put one, I just don't think I could ever make my family pay for something that expensive, even if it was a feasible expense. It's easy to dream and spend other people's (or your own imaginary) money, but there are just better things to do with that kind of money and now those are my dreams.
Lessons Learned
I really loved the assignment to complete a bucket list during this lesson. I have never done that before and felt very overwhelmed at first. With some brainstorming sessions with friends and family and some deep reflection, I have a list that I'm excited to work on! I keep learning the lesson (it just never sticks) that I need to write things down. Goals, aspirations, what I'm going to do today, everything should be written down. It gives those things meaning in our lives. I really learned a lot from Randy Pausch's last lecture. I'm not going to write more on that, but I'm very inspired by his life. I mentioned in the last post that something I wanted to do was read "The Richest Man in Babylon." I have it on hold at the library and should be starting it here in the next week or so as soon as I am done with the assigned reading books for my class. I'm excited to learn from it.
Lessons Not Yet Learned
I finished the book, "The Ministry of Business" and I want to implement "The Formula" in my life. I'm not sure exactly how that's going to happen, so that is kind of my vague goal for this week. I need to sit down and go over it step by step and make some concrete goals that I can work on. I'm kind of hoping I can get my husband to read the book and get on board with it, but we will see.
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