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Inspirational Videos

I've watched hundreds of videos on YouTube (and other sites) and these inspiring videos were the best, in my humble opinion. I believe they have a strong self-improvement and self help message. (Do you?)

Randy Pausch gives his Last Lecture. The World's Strongest Dad inspires all Dads, inspires all people really. And Baz Luhrman's "Wear Sunscreen" will always inspire me. How about you?

I've listed these videos in order of favourite to least favourite. Do let me know if you agree with the order of these inspirational videos - thanks

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Inspirational videos - what YouTube has to say...

1. Inspirational Speech by Dr. Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture

Dr Randy Pausch is dying of cancer. (He died in July 2008, actually.) And this video is an ten-minute excerpt of his famous 'Last Lecture' that he gave at Carnegie Hall. It is both heart-warming, inspiring and a little sad...

I found these words by Randy the most inspiring "The brick walls that are in our way are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. They're there to give us a way to show how much we want it..."

(And I think this inspirational video from a brain scientist is almost as good as Randy's video. What do you think?)

2. Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' video

Carl Sagan was was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy. It's his voice (and thoughts) you can hear on this video. Carl lets us look at the world, as a pale blue dot, via his involvement with the Voyager space mission.

In some ways, I think that Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot video is the most inspiring video. Everything that happens here on earth really, really is insignificant. And there are loads of famous movie clips too. Okay, I'll shut up...

3. The World's Strongest Dad ' video

At first glance, this is an odd video - you wonder what's going on. But when you realise that a) this man is doing triathlons whilst carrying his disabled son and b) he only does these events because his son gets so much joy out of them - in fact his son said that he doesn't feel disabled, when they run - then, then you become truly inspired by what human beings are capable of.

(And the Dad, Dick Hoyt, was a self-confessed 'porker' before he started training for the triathlons. And now, what a physique...)

(Here's the background story to The World's Strongest Dad. By the way, Mick n Phil - two Brit guys - do pretty much the same thing.)

4. 'Where the hell is Matt?' video

Hmm, I challenge you to watch Matt doing his silly dance all over the world and not feel inspired and amazed at how rich and diverse this planet and its people are...

Matt, do your thang!...

5. Baz Luhrman's 'Wear Sunscreen' video

This is not so much an inspiring video as an inspiring 'poem' with a video as background. If you've never heard Baz Luhrman wax lyrical then just listen closely to his words of wisdom, and if you have, listen again... :-)

Take it away, Baz!...

6. Inspirational quotes video

Some people are inspired by watching a video of inspirational quotes. I was particularly inspired by watching these quotes and listening to John Lennon's Imagine song at the same time...

and if you want to read some inspirational quotes - you can! :-)

7. Chet Armstrong's Self Help video

And, just in case you think I take all of this self-help malarkey a bit too seriously, here's Chet Armstrong on Self Help. Not necessarily inspirational, but funny nevertheless :-) ...

More videos...

• The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
  
  Sums up the ethos of the site, I think! :-)
  - What do you think about these inspirational videos?
  
  
• The Years Are Short
  
  A mother talks about her bus ride to school with her daughter and how, one day, she started to appreciate the preciousness of the moment... :-)

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