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Greatest Speech ever, changed my life!

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Created by JB > 9 months ago, 30 May 2008
JB
NSW, 2232 posts
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30 May 2008 5:41PM
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If your tight on time, I urge you to watch this first video, it's life changing. but if you have a spare 75 minutes, watch the second video, well worth your while. Makes too much sense not to, and will make you a better person.

Short Vid.



Long Vid

hinch
NSW, 45 posts
30 May 2008 7:35PM
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Puts it into perspective. Very insperational guy

greenleader
QLD, 5283 posts
30 May 2008 11:51PM
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short vid was an eye opener!

thanx jb

firiebob
WA, 3158 posts
30 May 2008 11:02PM
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Something to think about for sure

MintoxGT
WA, 975 posts
31 May 2008 1:22AM
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Very good!!!

bubs
SA, 924 posts
31 May 2008 10:10AM
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Watched the first one. Great video, amazing speech.

Also, why has someone put red thumbs on the first three replies. What did you say that someone thought should be red thumbed???

Cheers
Bubs

OceanBlue64
VIC, 980 posts
31 May 2008 11:15AM
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For the life of me I cant understand why anyone would thumbs down the 3 previous posts. Its a great vid and when I have time I will watch the longer version.
In actual fact the reason I started windsurfing was because after my cancer and chemo last year, I decided to do things that I had always wanted to do and never got around too. Life is way to short so just go out and do it!

mineral1
WA, 4564 posts
31 May 2008 10:19AM
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OceanBlue64 said...

For the life of me I cant understand why anyone would thumbs down the 3 previous posts. Its a great vid and when I have time I will watch the longer version.
In actual fact the reason I started windsurfing was because after my cancer and chemo last year, I decided to do things that I had always wanted to do and never got around too. Life is way to short so just go out and do it!


Cos some d... head thought that a red thumb was appropriate, (wonder how long we would have to wait to see the good in this sorry disenchanted human) I thought for, JB, OB64, Bubs and all the rest of us who are having fun that I would put a row of these

and these
and some of these
In support

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
31 May 2008 12:45PM
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Thanks JB.
Very thought provoking and a fabulous lesson in life's core values.

[don't know what the thumbs down thing is all about though - someone mumbling humbug humbugmaybe]

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
31 May 2008 12:51PM
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He seems too good to be true.

Is he still alive?

JayCee
NSW, 21 posts
31 May 2008 1:29PM
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Phenomenal speech!
He's still alive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch

Reflex Films
WA, 1448 posts
31 May 2008 6:56PM
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i saw this "reply" in another post -also very thought provoking.

://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38314

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
1 Jun 2008 11:54AM
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Reflex,
Does anyone else see the irony in this. Randy Pausch develops virtual worlds, german kid is all consumed by them. [not taking away from Randy's life message]

Quite scary when you think about the availability of guns in some societies and these somewhat mentally challenged adolescents who can't differentiate between reality and make believe.

Krisiz1
WA, 331 posts
2 Jun 2008 10:40PM
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Was that last video of User contributing to this forum?

First one though leaves you with a lump in your throat

Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
3 Jun 2008 11:51AM
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Will someone please summarize it for me so I don't have to watch it??

555
892 posts
3 Jun 2008 10:25AM
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Wet Willy said...

Will someone please summarize it for me so I don't have to watch it??


Fit, active, intellectual, uni lecturer dude has terminal brain pancreatic cancer and is going to die. Soon. Has a wife and three young kids to leave behind. Gives a talk on the Oprah show..

His key point is that you can't always determine what's going to happen to you, but you can determine how you respond. He should be down in the dumps and depressed that he's going to kick the bucket in the prime of his life, but he's decided instead to make the most of every day he has left. Challenges us to make the most of every day we have, and not sit around feeling sorry for ourselves, cause there are people (like him) that have it a heck of a lot worse. Think about what you'd do if you only had months to live, and then go and do it. Focus on what's really important in your life.

In one sentence: "You're not dead yet, so get off your arse and enjoy what life has to offer."

Think that's about right? Anyone?

It's only 9 minutes or so, so it won't hurt to watch it. No scientology, or other spin, just a decent guy sharing part of his life. The last part.

Whether it'll make you a better person or not I can't say, but it's better than watching arrows and hoping they'll turn green!

Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
3 Jun 2008 12:30PM
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Problem is, if I had months to live I'd blow all my savings, burn all my bridges, do lots of crazy stuff and probably end up bumping off a few old enemies from high school... so I'd rather not live my life like that unless I really WAS dying of cancer!!

Thanks anyway!! I think I'll keep my head buried in the sand!

Richiefish
QLD, 5610 posts
3 Jun 2008 12:57PM
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playing devils advocate here but, if you go out and live every day as if it were your last, when it's not, and you stuff up, you've got a lot longer to live with your mistakes...

555
892 posts
3 Jun 2008 12:09PM
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Richiefish said...

playing devils advocate here but, if you go out and live every day as if it were your last, when it's not, and you stuff up, you've got a lot longer to live with your mistakes...


Unless you are one of Willy's old enemies from high school, and Willy gets cancer..

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
3 Jun 2008 2:14PM
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He isn't saying "live every day like its your last". If you lived like that you would not achieve anything in life. What would be the point of learning or working towards anything if you didn't care about tomorrow? He cares about tomorrow; thats why he gives these speeches.

What he says, make the most out of your life. Try to achieve what you wanted to do when you were a kid.

Problem for me is I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was a kid. The only thing I did know is I didn't want to be either a builder or a farmer. I grew up on a farm and my dad was a builder. I was so sick of labouring and stuff like that by the time I was about 15.

He doesn't have brain cancer, he has pancreatic cancer which is probably one of the worst to get. My aunt died of it in 2006.

He still seems too good to be true, especially considering the dumb arses they have running the USA.




Richiefish
QLD, 5610 posts
3 Jun 2008 4:12PM
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Mobydisc said...

He isn't saying "live every day like its your last". If you lived like that you would not achieve anything in life. What would be the point of learning or working towards anything if you didn't care about tomorrow? He cares about tomorrow; thats why he gives these speeches.

What he says, make the most out of your life. Try to achieve what you wanted to do when you were a kid.

Problem for me is I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was a kid. The only thing I did know is I didn't want to be either a builder or a farmer. I grew up on a farm and my dad was a builder. I was so sick of labouring and stuff like that by the time I was about 15.

He doesn't have brain cancer, he has pancreatic cancer which is probably one of the worst to get. My aunt died of it in 2006.

He still seems too good to be true, especially considering the dumb arses they have running the USA.







I wasnt referring to the video specifically. I liked the vid'. Liked the guys attitude. Especially the notion that people are more important than "things"...

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
3 Jun 2008 7:59PM
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Richiefish said...
people are more important than "things"...


You're 'spot-on' there..... it makes you think about what's important.

He's just realised it before most of us get a chance to! I hope it doesn't take "the big 'C'' to make us work out what he's had the opportunity, (and family support) on his view on life. Good on him for sharing it with us, although it is meant for his kids, to let them know what sort of person he was, and what priorities he'd like to instill.......when he won't be there for them in the future

MikeyS
VIC, 1508 posts
3 Jun 2008 11:33PM
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firiebob said...

Something to think about for sure


No, something to act on.

albers
NSW, 1739 posts
5 Jun 2008 1:58PM
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Not a speech, but a motivational story is the "Terry Fox" story.

This kid lost part of one leg just below the knee to cancer - and to raise money
for cancer research, tried to run across Canada. He ran around 42km a day for 147 consecutive days (with an artificial leg), became ill so he couldn't run any more and died not long after. Google his name for more info

Cheers!

JB
NSW, 2232 posts
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8 Jun 2008 6:31PM
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There is so many key points to the speech. And all of them will effect people in different ways. Because some people already do a lot of the things that he says is important, but some of us don't, and this points them out quite clearly.

The best one I like is his reference to brick walls. They are not there to keep you out, but there to see how much you want to get in, and to keep those out that don't want whats in there as much as you. If you have a dream, and it is important to you, don't give up, Even if you don't succeed, what you will get trying it is much more saticifing than giving up.

And also there is so much more in life in helping someone else than yourself.

Take it in, change your life, or stay the same! It can only help.

JB

MikeyS
VIC, 1508 posts
28 Jul 2008 2:28PM
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Mobydisc said...

He seems too good to be true.

Is he still alive?


No, not now. Yet his message will certainly live on.

"US professor Randy Pausch, who shot to global fame because of the inspirational "Last Lecture" he delivered soon after learning he had terminal cancer, has died.

Prof Pausch had taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon University since 1997. He was 47.

Celebrated in his chosen field, he delivered his acclaimed lecture at Carnegie Mellon last September after learning he was dying of pancreatic cancer and had only months to live.

He died on Friday.

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just the way we play the hand," Prof Pausch said in the speech that was laced with humour and optimism. "

OceanBlue64
VIC, 980 posts
28 Jul 2008 3:37PM
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I saw that in the paper yesterday. Its a sad loss of an very inspirational man. Lets hope his message lives on.



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