Play the cards you are dealt

category: Life
by Kamael,

Sometimes Google search really just gives you a good thing. And the above video of Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture is a good thing and definitely worth an hour and fifteen minutes of your time. Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. In 2006, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given a little less than two years to live. For most of you that don’t know this - pancreatic cancer has a 5% survival rate. That’s damn low. Really damn low.

You’ll get caught up in his energy in the video of his last lecture - which he gave with about 8 months before he passed away. And if you’re like me, you’ll probably forget that he’s dying because you’re so inspired by just how much he talks about living. While a good portion of the lecture focused on his career and work around virtual reality, there are huge nuggets about life and achieving your childhood dreams that just jump out and grab you. Here are some of my favorites:

1. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

2. Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

3. You’ll get more from the dreams you don’t accomplish than from the ones you do.

4. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.

5. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

6. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The 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.

7. You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest.

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