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Originally Posted by Stu  This is one I found just recently. It's Randy Pausch, who was a Comp Sci prof at Carnegie Melon. He's accomplished some amazing things in his life and more importantly, has led his life in a very inspiring way. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with cancer but if you watch the video you wouldn't even know it after 5 minutes. If anything, his cancer seems to make him appreciate life more. It's long (1:15ish) but well worth it. |
Randy Pausch gave an abridged version (10 min) of his Last Lecture on Oprah. I highly, highly recommend to everyone to watch the full version but if you're short on time do watch the one on Oprah.
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YouTube - Inspirational Speech by Dr. Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture Quote:
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This is a three part series on my favorite subject, positive psychology, by Shawn Achor. You can search youtube for each part but for convenience sake I've got them all together in this post I wrote on it. The talk is called 'The Science of Happiness and Potential' and all three parts combined comes out to about 21 minutes.
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Thanks, Stu. I watched the entire talk. The Harvard student statistics were shocking. 80% reporting depression. Though I find it hard to believe that
college students have 0-0.5 sexual partners over 4 years... Nevertheless, many people at upper-tier universities find little time to be truly happy. MIT students put IHTFP on their class rings (stands for I Hate This ****ing Place). I would guess it's more due to lack of sleep and other bad health habits than negative psychology, though.