Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Melon who was given 6 months to live. This is his last lecture entitled `achieving your childhood dreams'

It is pretty moving. I watched after just coming back from watching `Starter for Ten' starring James McAvoy, a university student at Bristol in the 80s. It was pretty motivational itself. Maybe a little nostalgic too because some of the characters reminded me of people and friendships I had at university.

One quote I enjoyed

The people who care about you the most don't care if you make mistakes, it's what you do next that matters.

Why am I putting the comments on the movie and the `last lecture' in the same post?

Well... I guess they had similar but different effects on me. A quote I enjoyed from `The Last Lecture':

Find someone to provide a feedback loop, and listen to them.

If you are lucky, the person who gives you that feedback will be the person who sticks around even once you have made the mistake... because you listen and because of what you do next.

Now, before Stuart reaches for his bucket because of all this soppiness, I am going to head off to the gym and get rid of some of this emotional angst.