"Last Lecture"
Mr. Pausch's lecture had three main points "Really achieving your childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others, and lessons learned." His speech has touched many more people than were in the stadium that day. The speech has gone out over the Internet, the TV and has been written about all over the nation and even around the world. The over all point I noticed in the speech was for a person to live life to the best of their ability.
He spoke about the importance of childhood dreams and their fulfillment. Even if a person does not accomplish their childhood dreams they can learn from them. Mr. Pausch mentioned one dream that was not fulfilled, his dream to play professional football. He said when he played football in school he learned several lessons from his coaches. One lesson was to not over look the basics and their importance. He learned how to accept criticism and learn from it.
The "brick wall" idea was mentioned several times. In essence he was saying when life gets rough and things do not turn out like you hoped, keep trying and never give up. Mr. Pausch said that difficulties come along to eliminate the people who do not want to reach their dreams bad enough.
He encouraged people to help others realize their dreams and encourage them to reach them. Mr. Pausch also encouraged people not to be afraid to try new things. They could turn out to be wonderful.
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1 comment:
Excellent! Randy makes many good points. I believe we all have hit brick walls in life and careers. Some of us even make full circles, with a twist. For instance, I started off as a Computer Science Major, changed to a Business Major by sophomore year and during my working years told I would be a good teacher, hince the twist, teaching a microcomputer course to future educators! Life just works out that way sometimes. Using the same concept as the "brick wall", when one door closes, a window is opened.
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