Blog Post 7

I am being very honest when I say that I was not looking forward to watching a 1 hour and fifteen minute video. I hope this honesty doesn't get me in trouble. After the first 2 minutes, I was engulfed into the video. I am instructed to write four paragraphs on this speech; I decided to write about four or five quotes that I find interesting and important.

The first quote that I like is "Anything is possible and that is something we should not lose sight of." With the topic of the lecture being "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", I think this is a necessary quote to remember. Sometimes in our lives, I think that we write certain dreams off because we don't think of them as reachable. For example, I know of a young woman who has a great talent of singing, but she doesn't try to go after her dream of singing professionally because she doesn't think she will make it. She could be right, but she could also be wrong. We will never know what we are capable of if we don't try to achieve event he simplest of dreams.

Another quote that I thought was important is "Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things." I think this can mean something different to different people. But what it means to me is that not everything is simple and easy. There are always going to be brick walls in our paths that slow us down. But those brick walls prove to us how badly we want things by stopping us and challenging us to break through them. I think once we grasp this idea and the one I mentioned earlier, we will then be able to blast through the brick walls in our paths and better ourselves.

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" is mentioned about half way through the lecture. We all need experience. Without it, it's hard to get even the simplest of jobs. However, experience often comes from a 'failure' of some sort. Those failures and short-comings is what teaches us. Through those experiences, we can learn what to do better next time, or how to change our ways of doing certain things.

The last quote that I thought was appealing to the topic is "Most of what we learn, we learn indirectly." I learn something everyday, without even trying to learn. Today I learned what a safety is in football. Last week I learned how to do a probability math problem in math class. But most of what we learn comes from something we weren't even concentrating on. This happens especially in the lives of children.

I respect this lecture video, and it being 1 hour and 15 minutes long didn't matter in the slightest.