I've read the book named "The Last Lecture" written by Randy Pausch since I was twelve grades in the senior high school. I remembered the reason why I chose this book from that time was because it soothed my soul and taught me the way to face the music courageously. For most senior high school students in Taiwan, the entrance examination seemed to be one of the most important courses throughout the life. However, preparing this challenge not only should be study harder than before, it also tested your endurance towards successive pressures. After all, the process must be filled with frustrations and mistakes which struck us again and again. Therefore, with the company of this book, I overcame it and underwent smoothly in the last year of my senior high.
When it comes to the way I looked at my mistake, my reaction might depend on its condition. If is was the same mistake, I would be strict with my behavior. And I did find a solution as soon as possible. On the other hand, if it was the first time for me to make this mistake, I would reflect my actions and told myself not to make it again. In my opinion, the occurence of mistake might cause from our carelessness or unfamiliarity regarding the matter dealt with. And as Prof. Pausch said, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." By making the mistake, we would slow down our pace to review our deeds, and we might thereby come up with the idea to cope with it in the days to come.
It’s really cool to hear that you’ve read the book during the period when you need something like this most, and I suppose you certainly know a lot more about Pro. Pausch’s ideas than what is shown in the video clip. In fact, I can’t agree more with you and your comments leave me scarcely anything to say. Here I just write down what impresses me most in the video and some phenomenon I relate to Pro. Pausch’s speech. The most impressive saying in the video clip is “the brick walls are to let us prove how badly we want things” Paraphrase: Obstacles are to filter out those who don’t want something truly and keep those who are the incurable lover of it. It’s quite true, especially when I see many people who claim that they love music and start to attend few classes of guitar lessons on impulse, and only after a month or two, quit it. The basic skills that require repeated and boring practice, the pain on the fingertips, and those complicated chords, are the brick walls that stop those who don’t have perseverance. If people don’t want to be stopped by the walls, a modest suggestion is that we have to think twice before we take action: you either persevere to the end or just don’t start, or else, (though it’s a rather extreme opinion), seeing people grab guitars and play it only for a while and discard it is an insult to guitars.
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