Saturday, October 11, 2008

His Last Lecture

Me, currently reading:

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand" - Randy Pausch

A lot of professors give talks titled, "The Last Lecture". Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a compueter science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with teminal cancer. But the lecture he gave - "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" - wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have... and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy has come to believe. It was about living.



Let the video load (be prepared with popcorn and soft drinks as this video is whooping 1 hour long!). But you wouldn't regret waiting...

9 *twinkles*:

Dragon said...

amboi, 1 hour long ar...... no time to watch it now. i have more important thing to watch at the moment, the one million star! Muahahaha.

Dragon said...

omg omg, i'm the first!!!!

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古墓街第7号當鋪 said...

Alot people talking about this video recently. Even my EU Law
lecturer asked us to check out his book -_-"

♛ LORD ZARA 札拉 ♛ said...

Woo~
Looked really interesting!

Chobits said...

Ok will watch it when i am at home. ^^ Thanks for the recommendation, any chinese subtitles? My english listening skill is poor, normally cant undertsand english show without subtitle. Sob..T^T

SongKeat said...

tumbs up for randy!!! this must is really a must for everyone! read it slowly if u had it!

Calvin Soo KJ said...

too long lar. gotto come back this weekend. got tonnes of work to do this week. no time even to poop...lol.

nana said...

ooh my brother has this book, am gonna borrow from him after this!

ps/ you've been tagged. hehe!

 

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