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For those who like listening to lectures, there is this great video of Steve Jobs delivering one at the Stanford University on Youtube. I strongly recommend the reader to give it a hearing. I could have given the link, but thats Anand for you - lazy to look for it now.

He talks of a concept of using the thought of death as a motivating factor to become a better human being. Sounded good and logical. Anyway, for those who are equally lazy to visit the site, here's a nice quote from his speech:

"Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there!"

Amazing find. Kudos!

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