That's Intriguing #24: Why We All Ought to Adopt the Wisdom of Randy Pausch

My son Tom just called me to ask, "Have you ever watched The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch?"

Tom is a 25 year old living his dream, working as a certified mission controller at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. He still gets "chicken skin" (what Hawaiians call goose bumps) at the thought that he gets to work with the shuttle and the ISS (International Space Station).

As he says with wonderment in his voice, "I do something down here; and it makes something happen up there."

Tom was at a...