Prof Randy Pausch gave a lecture at CMU which made him a celebrity. CMU organizes a series of lectures titled the Last Lecture where a professor is hypothetically given the scenario that he would soon die and that was his last lecture. For Prof Randy, he was actually dying. He was diagnosed with pancreatitis cancer a few months back and he had just a couple of months left in his life. A normal human being would have been so depressed and mentally weak after coming to know that death is looming large on him. Randy was not a normal human being; he was an extra-ordinary person. His spirit was extra-ordinary.
Randy chose a topic titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams for that lecture at CMU. There are three parts in that speech:
- How Randy could achieve his childhood dreams?
- How he helped others (students) in achieving their childhood dreams
- Lessons learned
The complete video is available at the following site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
At the end of the lecture, he said there are two head-fakes in the entire lecture:
- There is nothing like achieving childhood dreams. He said that he believed in karma. If you live well, dreams would come to you automatically.
- Secondly, he didn't give the lecture to the 500 people sitting in the CMU hall; but was actually giving the lecture for his three kids (6, 4 and 2 year old).
He gave another lecture at University of Virginia titled Time Management. This one is important for all of us. How do we manage our time correctly?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758#
I'll write about the Time Management lecture some other day. There are two more videos that I watched.
- On March 13th 2008, Prof Andy Pausch gave a testimony before US Congress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iP7xr6ig-s
- Andy Pausch on Oprah Winfrey show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ya9BXClRw
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