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Hey, look everyone – Pixar’s going Number Two!

Mmm. Smells like profit.

Like pretty much everyone else who sees it, I’m taken with the positive message in Professor Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”. Pausch is dying of prostate cancer, and his time is down to months. His lecture is a touching tribute to life, with a nod toward the fact that we are all dying, and what matters then is how we choose to live, no matter how much or how little time we have left.

On the offchance you don’t know what I’m talking about, the lecture is available for viewing HERE, and there’s also a book available HERE based on the professor’s life as well as his lecture.

There are a lot of great observations on the lecture, great advice, and of course there are lots of poignant moments. It will make you want to be a better child, a better parent, a better spouse, a better person. It will make you want to be more thankful for your own situation.

One quote from the doctor stuck with me because it comes to bear on the power of story:

“Don’t tell people how to live their lives, just tell stories, because they can figure out how to apply the stories to their lives.”