I take some notes from Professor Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
1. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
2. When you're screwing up and nobody's saying anthing to you anymore, that means they gave up. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.
3. Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
4. The brick walls are there for a reason. 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 wall are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
5. It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
6. They're both ways of saying I don't know, but boy there's a good way and a bad way.
7. Some brick walls are made of flesh.
8. You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
9. And anybody who is out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedroom, as a favor to me let them do it. It'll be OK.
10. Never lose the childlike wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us.
11. Help others.
12. When it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
13. Never give up.
14. How do you get people to help you? You cant't get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paychecks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.m
15. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
16. Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
17. Get a feedback loop and listen to it. When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
18. Show gratitude.
19. Don't complain.
20. Be good at something, it makes you valuable.
21. Work hard.
22. Find the best in everybody. One of the things that Jon Snoddy as I said told me is that you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. 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.
23. Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
