breaking assumptions

“revolution is about breaking assumptions

— benjamin zander

more quotes from the video:

“what assumptions are we making that we don’t know we are making?”

– ‘awareness’ is a word that comes through very often in work lately. how can one be aware of something that s/he doesn’t know s/he should be aware but isn’t aware of. somewhat resonates with what zander is saying though not exactly the same line of thoughts.

“we assume that success is measured in wealth, fame, and influence… over here, we only measure success in how many shiny eyes there are.”

– as teachers, how do we keep our learners’ eyes shiny, daily, monthly, annually, for as long as they are in our classes/school, and learners in society later?

the video of the orchestra performing conducted by zander follows:

The Last Lecture – a video

chanced upon this video “Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. the greatest takeaway for me personally is these statements that appear towards the end of the lecture:

“It’s not about how you achieve your dreams, it’s about how you lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and your dreams will come to you.”

life’s not all 一帆风顺, things more often than not go the way we least intended or not intended at all. that is life, and how one LEADS one’s life decide how your life will eventually turn out. if we choose to feel miserable, we’ll be miserable; if we choose to live life to its fullest till the last day like the cancer striken Dr Pausch. 就真正可以说不枉此生了。

here’s another ‘follow up’ video if u’re interested to catch:

enjoy n be inspired too (:

btw, he’s the man behind Alice, a software to teach children programming in the fun way and this software would allow “millions of kids having fun”.