{"id":91,"date":"2007-09-26T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/watching-this-video-could-change-your-life\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T09:40:05","slug":"watching-this-video-could-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/watching-this-video-could-change-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching this Video could change your life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day you come across the <strong>last talk of a dying man.<\/strong>  Ok, we&#8217;re all dying right, but 47 year old <strong>Randy Pausch<\/strong> knows he&#8217;s only got a few months to live, and so does the 500 strong audience at Caregie Mellon university  at which he&#8217;s a professor.<\/p>\n<p>In this, his final lecture, he talks about his incredible life and imparts invaluable pearls of wisdom about he achieved all his childhood dreams, which included things like <strong>designing Disney theme park rides!<\/strong>  It&#8217;s a rare thing indeed to get 47 years of practical knowledge about how to really live your life, and reach your goals, from a intelligent, articulate and funny man, who is at the very top of his game, all packed into a single video.<\/p>\n<p>Watching this video has really made me sit back and think about what&#8217;s important to me, and <strong>whether I could stand up at 47 and say that I have achieved all my childhood dreams?<\/strong>  Could you?  If not, watch the video and learn how.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Randy Pausch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpv_videoc\">\n<div class=\"wpv_self\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skarcha.com\/wp-plugins\/wpvideo\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPvideo 1.10<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_titleauthor\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_video\"><embed style=\"width:100%; height:100%\" id=\"VideoPlayback\" align=\"middle\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5700431505846055184&amp;hl=en-CA\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" quality=\"best\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" scale=\"noScale\" wmode=\"window\" salign=\"TL\"  FlashVars=\"playerMode=embedded\"> <\/embed><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day you come across the last talk of a dying man. Ok, we&#8217;re all dying right, but 47 year old Randy Pausch knows he&#8217;s only got a few months to live, and so does the 500 strong audience at Caregie Mellon university at which he&#8217;s a professor. In this, his final lecture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}