Best speeches that remind you to live life | Motivational Speeches
Motivational Speeches:
November 1 is not the only date one remembers people who are missing, but it is the day of the year when death is most present. If we do not like to talk about death we can always take advantage of it to do it about life, as it is often done on the internet. Since the beginning of YouTube there are viral videos with speeches full of life from people who came the time to say goodbye. The last case is that of the young Brittany Maynard: at age 29 and with an incurable illness, she has moved to a state where assisted suicide is legal and uses her last days to fulfill one of her dreams and make her Vital message and in favor of a dignified death. [Update: Brittany Maynard took legal action in Oregon on Saturday, November 1.
In tribute to those who have lost, you may want to share with those who need these videos about the celebration of life, some of them who wanted to leave it as testimony before dying:
1. One last lesson.
Professor Randy Pausch took advantage of the tradition of the “last conference”, thought about what to say to your students if you hypothetically were to die, to tell something to their students when he knew that he was going to die of cancer. An article in The Wall Street Journal made him known and ended up repeating the message, condensed in 10 minutes, into The Oprah Show. And there is YouTube. The talk wanted to be a gift for her three children to see as grown up, but eventually reached millions of people. It was published as a book, also available in Spanish, and became a bestseller. [The original talk, How to fulfill your dreams of the childhood, of 76 minutes, is available in English with subtitles here.
2. Living passionately is not a matter of age.
It is the advice of Isabel Allende. The 71-year-old Chilean writer gave a TED talk last March (TED talks about motivation and stories of overcoming there are many). In his case he chose to talk about wrinkles and vitality: What have I lost in the last decades? People, of course, places and the unlimited energy of my youth. And I’m starting to lose independence, and that scares me. (…) What have I won? Freedom. I do not have to prove anything anymore. I’m not caught up in the idea of who I was, who I want to be or what others expect it to be.
3. A father receiving valuable advice from his daughter. A short Spanish thought as a reminder for parents. – When you are older you will not like to play.
4. Think about what you would do if money did not matter. The videos with the speech of the British philosopher Allan Watts are periodically viral.
If you say that earning money is the most important thing you will spend your life wasting your time.
You will be doing something that you do not like to continue with a life that consists of doing things that you do not like. (…) It is absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you do not like so you can continue doing things you do not like and teaching your children to follow the same path.
5. Steve Jobs advice to keep the hunger to live. Another classic of YouTube’s motivational speeches was made by Apple and Pixar’s co-founder at Stanford University’s graduation ceremony in 2005. The video was viral again after his death in 2011. [Full text here] You have to find what you love. And that is just as valid for work as it is for love … As with the affairs of the heart, you will know when you have found it. And like any important relationship, it improves over the years. So keep looking. And do not stop. (…) Stay hungry. (…) Stay Allocated.
6. On the importance of failure. Everyone, including Jobs, has known the feeling of making mistakes and the fear of failing. J. K. Rowling explained to us in the inaugural address of the alumni meeting at Harvard University in 2008 that this is a fundamental experience and that without failure she would not have achieved any of her purposes. Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure means to get rid of the nonessential. I stopped pretending it was something else and started directing all my energy to finish the only job that mattered to me. If I had succeeded in any other field, I could never have found the determination to succeed on the ground that I thought I truly belonged to. She was free, because my greatest fear had come true and she was still alive, and she still had a daughter she adored, and she had an old typewriter and a great idea. And so touching bottom became the foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
7. Faced with the boredom of everyday life. Writer David Foster Wallace also gave a famous university address in 2005, titled This is Water, and talks about how to confront the routines of adult life. It can be downloaded as a book. Trivialities can have a life-or-death significance. (…) If you really learn how to think, how to pay attention, you will see that there are other options … The only certainty is that it is you who will decide how you are going to try to see it. This, in my opinion, is the freedom of a true education, of learning how to be well configured. You can consciously decide what makes sense and what does not.
8. Carpe Diem. Seize the moment. One of the inspirational speeches that come quickest to mind when we think of the movies is this scene from The Dead Poets Club. Cinemanía compiled years ago another 20 speeches of cinema to raise the moral to anyone. “Come on in, listen, do you hear it, Caaaaarpe Dieeeeeem, take advantage of the moment, guys, make your life extraordinary”
