In his speech, Admiral William McRaven gives many life lessons to the 2014 graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin. The admiral began his speech with a simple fact: The average American meets ten thousand people in their lifetime. If you change the life of just ten of those ten thousand, and they change the life of just ten of their ten thousand, in a century, 800 million people’s lives will have been changed. This is amazing to me because everyone can change someone’s life everyday by doing one simple thing, whether it be smile at them or buy them their meal. Admiral McRaven’s first tip was about making the bed every morning. He said that every morning during his training, the officers would come around to the barracks and
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Admiral McRaven said that if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of working more. Sometimes, you will fail and you will have to use those failures as a learning experience. Not being afraid of working more will make you achieve your goal which could change the world. I want to be a doctor, and I know that it will be a long process and very hard work. I am sure that I will have some failures, I accept that. I also know, though, that if I take those failures and know not to make the same mistake again, that I will be the best doctor that has ever been and that I will change the …show more content…
He said that to change the world, you have to be your best when you are in the dark. Now, to me this means that when you are at rock bottom, you think that nothing is left fighting for, that you need to realize that everyone has failed and that everyone has been where you are. For example, Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, hit rock-bottom more than one time. In fact, he had seven near-death experiences. Here are some of them: he fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side severely; survived poisoning and suffocation in his own bedroom; and fell into a river and nearly drowned. These many times in the dark for Sax would have made most people quit, but he got up and invented. This story is one of many that are very inspiring to me, especially when I am in the
Admiral McRaven said that if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of working more. Sometimes, you will fail and you will have to use those failures as a learning experience. Not being afraid of working more will make you achieve your goal which could change the world. I want to be a doctor, and I know that it will be a long process and very hard work. I am sure that I will have some failures, I accept that. I also know, though, that if I take those failures and know not to make the same mistake again, that I will be the best doctor that has ever been and that I will change the …show more content…
He said that to change the world, you have to be your best when you are in the dark. Now, to me this means that when you are at rock bottom, you think that nothing is left fighting for, that you need to realize that everyone has failed and that everyone has been where you are. For example, Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, hit rock-bottom more than one time. In fact, he had seven near-death experiences. Here are some of them: he fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side severely; survived poisoning and suffocation in his own bedroom; and fell into a river and nearly drowned. These many times in the dark for Sax would have made most people quit, but he got up and invented. This story is one of many that are very inspiring to me, especially when I am in the