What do you want to accomplish before you die?
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This a talk Gray did in 2011 at North Georgia University - long before he became an emergency medicine PA! But, even at 21, he makes some great points about living your passion and feeling fulfilled. After all, we only have one life...
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Gray Phelps and today I'd like to talk to you about life. |
| 0:04.0 | More specifically I'd like to talk to you about how to enhance your overall quality of life and |
| 0:08.4 | happiness. |
| 0:09.4 | But before I do I'd like to tell you a personal story that happened to me when I was a freshman in high school. |
| 0:14.9 | So I don't know how many of you have older brothers or sisters, but if you do, you can relate to me |
| 0:18.6 | when I tell you how cool I thought I was getting to ride to school, to school and from school with my older brother |
| 0:24.8 | every morning my twin brother and I would hop into the Jeep top-down music blaring and we ride |
| 0:30.2 | off to school. Well one morning my older brother decided to reenact a scene from the movie |
| 0:35.0 | Fight Book. You know the scene where Brad Pitt's driving, Edward Norton's in the passenger seat. |
| 0:39.7 | Brad Pitt takes his hands off the steering wheel, looks over at Edward Norton and says, |
| 0:43.4 | what's the last thing you want to do before you die? |
| 0:45.4 | Well, that's exactly what happened. |
| 0:47.1 | My brother took his hands off the steering wheel, looked over at me and said, |
| 0:50.4 | Ray, what's the last thing you want to do before you die? And you know what my answer was? I had no answer. If I was going to die that |
| 0:56.8 | very day I did not know what I wanted to do with my life I did not know what I wanted |
| 1:00.0 | to see if I was going to die that very day. I had never thought about death before that moment. |
| 1:04.4 | I always thought I would live to be 80 or 90 and that would be that. But I know better now. |
| 1:09.5 | I know that our lives can be taken away at any moment and that is why I want to persuade you to |
| 1:13.5 | change the way you are living your life so you can take advantage of the time you |
| 1:16.8 | have here on this earth. And in order to live the way life was intended you have |
| 1:21.8 | to be motivated by the thought of death you have |
| 1:24.7 | to find out what you have a passion for in life and do it every single day and you |
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