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I have not really got the time to actually watch this video about Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer who gave his last lecture at the university on Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.
He is a really amazing person and inspire others to live life to their fullest. He has a positive attitude. He is the reason hope and goodness is still being seen through the silver linings of the clouds above despite being in this violent world. He is still alive today living his last few days despite being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the September of 2006. He is a true hero who faces reality despite knowing that he is dying.
Absolutely Amazing!
He began his lecture by saying “when there is an elephant in the room, introduce them” and he showed his CAT scans about his tumors. The lecture was not about his cancer. It was more about telling people to achieve their childhood dreams. He mentioned some of the childhood dreams that he had. Here are some of his childhood dreams.
- Being in zero gravity
- Playing National Football League
- Authoring an article in the World Book of Encyclopedia
- Being Captain Kirk
- Being an Imagineer with Disney
- Winning a stuffed animals from amusement park.
In fact, he achieved all of his childhood dreams.
Here is some of the stuff he mentioned on his last lecture.
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”
“These slides (he showed some slides) are a little bit dark, but when I was in high school I
decided to paint my bedroom. [shows slides of bedroom] I always wanted a submarine and an
elevator. And the great thing about this is they let me do it. And
they didn’t get upset about it. And it’s still there. If you go to my parent’s house it’s still there. And anybody who is out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedroom, as a favor to me let them do it. It’ll be OK. Don’t worry about resale value on the house.” Painting a room is to spread out children’s imagination”
Also before he ended his speech, he said that the speech is not for the people who was watching the lecture, but it was for his 3 kids, where they will see this lecture when they grow up.
I have my own childhood dream. I wanted to become a Taxi driver, wanted to live in a deserted island and try to survive by myself, wanted to participate in marathon, and I wanted to become an airline pilot. I thought I was never gonna achieve my own childhood dream. However, after this inspirational speech, I decided to do my best to achieve my childhood dream before I die.
Here is the transcript:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/Randy/pauschlastlecturetranscript.pdf
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733756_1736194,00.html
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