Pausch talks mostly about childhood dreams. Makes one think about my own childhood dreams: Alas, someone else beat me to Fermat's last theorem and driving the A-train doesn't seem as exciting now as it did to the 5-year old me.
But Pausch's talk really emphasizes his simple keys to success:
- Make the right connections.
- Be Persistent.
- Be Patient.
- Work Hard.
How much of his advice applies to entrepreneurs? Some of it seems aimed at people wanting to be employees rather than self-employed.
ReplyDeleteWhere can one find the full version of his talk (video or transcript)?
ReplyDeleteDespite hearing about this lecture from pretty much everyone I know, I'd resisted watching it until now, since I could never stomach the Oprahistic concept of a dying man sharing some ultimate wisdom about life. And I still can't stomach that concept, but nevertheless, this was a great lecture in many ways.
ReplyDeleteI liked Pausch's withering rejection of herbal and new-age cures. I liked what his mom told him when he complained about how hard his theory quals were: "at your age, your father was fighting the Germans." But most of all, I liked Pausch's departure from one the central conventions of this genre. This is not a dying man telling people to spend less time at the office, since he now understands that worldly success is just a chimera anyway. This is a dying man telling people to spend more time at the office if that's what's needed, to jump over brick walls, since achieving their ambitions in life is actually important.
I changed the youtube link above to the full lecture.
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