Three Things That Stood Out To Me Analysis

The three things that stood out to me were that if people are still pushing you to do something better when you are doing it poorly then they haven’t given up on you; there are brick walls that will get in the way; and you can’t get to your dreams on your own. In the video Randy Pausch describes that when he was a child he wanted to play in the NFL. He did not make it to the NFL but he says that Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. He signed up to play in a football league when he was 9 years old and one day at practice the head coach rode him really hard and kept telling him he was doing everything wrong. After practice one of the other coaches came up to him and told him that it was a good thing that the coach was …show more content…
Pausch repeats in his lecture that there are bricks walls that will get in the way. He says that brick walls are there for a reason: They let us prove how badly we want things. He people who are dedicated will keep trying but the people that don’t care as much will give up. Pausch applied for a job as a Disney imagineer and didn’t get the job but he didn’t give up, he eventually made it and was able to work on Aladdin. I agree with this completely, there are always going to be obstacles in people’s lives but it doesn’t mean they should give up, if you want something bad enough then you will reach your dreams. You can’t reach your dreams alone, Pausch says that people have to help you and you can get that help by telling the truth, being earnest, apologize when you mess up and focus on others, not yourself. Pausch was so focused on this lecture that he didn’t give his wife a proper birthday so he decided to think about her and not himself; he brought out a cake in front of five hundred people and everyone sang happy birthday to her. You cannot be successful if you never ask for help, you can be the smartest person in the world and you won’t be successful