Randy Pausch’s ‘Last Lecture’

Tuesday | April 8th, 2008

I will be honest and admit that, before this morning, I had never heard of Randy Pausch. I still don’t know much about him. I have learned that he is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. On September 18, 2007, Pausch delivered his ‘last lecture’. In his lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own goals. Not only is the lecture now available online for millions to view, but there is also an ABC special with Diane Sawyer that will air this Wednesday, April 9, at 10 PM (Eastern) and the book was released today. I have not yet had a chance to view his lecture (stoopid work firewall!) but I am going to go ahead and post it for everyone else to enjoy.

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Posted by Frenchie Filed in Deep Thoughts, Living a Meaningful Life

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  1. Jason Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    How inspiring Randy Pausch is! If you liked “The Last Lecture”, another fantastic memoir I just read and highly recommend is “My Stroke of Insight” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Her TEDTalk video (ted.com) has been seen as many times as The Last Lecture I think, and Oprah did 4 shows on her book, so there are a lot of similarities. In My Stroke of Insight, there’s a happy ending though. It’s an incredible story! I hear they’re making it into a movie.

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