Randy Pausch |
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Randy Pausch delivered this lecture titled"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on Sept 18, 2007. Randy, a seemingly healthy and vibrant cancer survivor, spoke on an unrelated topic, despite his having only six months left to live due to an untimely recurrence of pancreatic cancer. His topics were about his childhood dreams, how to enable the dreams of others and lastly, lessons learned.As a child Randy had dreams ranging from being at zero gravity, playing in the NFL to meeting Captain Kirk. He spoke of encouraging others to live out their dreams. One great collaborated idea between himself and a artist named Don Marinelli called " The Dream Fulfillment Factory".
During the lecture he kept his audiences' attention by doing pushups and parading all of the stuffed animals he had won on stage. On April 9, 2008, the ABC network aired an hour long Diane Sawyer lecture on Pausch entitled The Last Lecture: A Love Story For Your Life.
Sadly,this brilliant researcher/teacher is no longer with us. His battle with cancer finally came to a conclusion. Randy left us with the inspiration and motivational lectures which were his ultimate gift on how to achieve ones dreams in life. His brilliance and enthusiasm for life will remain on earth for a long time to come. How ironic, a man who has been given a sentence of death in six months, gave us the gift to living a fulfilled life. Thank-you, Mr Pausch and may God bless your family.
You are right that it was a very inspiring speech. Was there any specific thing about the speech you liked? Did you perhaps enjoy his discussion on virtual reality, or perhaps when he talked about the teaching methods he helped make?
ReplyDeleteYou provide the context and information about Dr. Pausch. But you did not follow the directions for writing about what he says about teaching. Here are the instructions you were to follow:
ReplyDelete"Think about the teaching methods he advocated and used at" Carnegie-Mellon. "Identify and comment on those techniques in a blog post of at least 4 substantive paragraphs. You MUST include a discussion which includes all of the things discussed by Dr. Pausch that you can use in your teaching. "