Good Morning,
This last evening, Karen told me about a professor’s last lecture. Dr. Randy Pausch, 47, is dying of Pancreatic Cancer. At the time of the lecture, he had only a few months of good health left. In this lecture, Dr. Pausch is full of energy and drive and loving every minute of it. He gives his zest for life for all of you to see. You can find a recording of this lecture at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
About 18 minutes into the speech, Dr. Pausch talks about his second childhood dream, to play in the NFL, which he did not succeed at. He told us about his school coach and how his coach rode his team hard. One day his coach keeps pushing him, correcting him and giving him a lot of criticism, and many extra pushups after practice also.
At the end of this practice another coach came up to the young Dr. Pausch and commented how the head coach rode him that day. He then said, ‘that’s good’.
Dr. Pausch explained that when you are doing something wrong and people criticize you, it means they care. Imagine if you are messing up and no one says anything. That is, they see you making mistakes and just let you make them. It means that they have stopped caring. And Dr. Pausch says, ‘It’s a really bad place to be”.
That hit home with me. I realized that those who correct me, want me to be better. And for that I thank them.
It pushes me to be better.
Remember, when you get criticized, you are being told that you matter, and you can improve.
In this case, your critics are your best friends. If they didn’t care about you, then they would not say anything.
Enjoy!
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