Comments on: Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

By: Learn how to live your life from a great man

Learn how to live your life from a great man — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:17:02 +0000

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By: I Valori della vita ... l\\\'ultima presentazione del Prof. Randy Pausche

I Valori della vita ... l\\\'ultima presentazione del Prof. Randy Pausche — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:15:12 +0000

[...] così e scopro questo video via TechCrunch che mi ha profondamente colpito, l’ultima presentazione del Prof. Randy Pausch colpito [...]

By: Come for the Ride… » Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:03:04 +0000

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By: Sara Gold

Sara Gold — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:59:21 +0000

Some lessons from Randy Pausch’s last lecture that especially moved me:

1. Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
3. Never lose the child-like wonder.
4. If we do something which is pioneering, we will get arrows in the back. But at the end of the day, a whole lot of people will have a whole lot of fun.
5. Be good at something; it makes you valuable.
6. If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.

Check out the tribute quiz on the lecture at http://www.mystudiyo.com : you can add your own questions at the end of the quiz.
http://www.mystudiyo.com/activity.php?act=558

By: Quo Vadis Blog » Blog Archive » Last lecture

Quo Vadis Blog » Blog Archive » Last lecture — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:13:19 +0000

[...] Determined to make the best of things, Dr. Pausch recently gave a talk at the university (billed as his “last lecture”) where he spoke about how to live life to the fullest and achieve your childhood dreams. Its reach has extended far beyond the 400 students and colleagues that originally gathered to hear it. Both ABC and CBS have run segments about Dr. Pausch’s story; the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers have also written about it, as have hundreds of blogs. [...]

By: Anand Nalya

Anand Nalya — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:46:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I wanted to watch the video on the day I read about it here, but I was able to see it today only.
It was very inspiring.

By: D. Emily Hicks

D. Emily Hicks — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:22:29 +0000

I love this lecture/performance. I worked with holographers, animators and artists in the eighties in LA and co-directed a holographic show in conjunction with the Olympics. During those years, I got to work with holographer Lloyd Cross and to know a lot about Star Wars rotoscoper and animation filmmaker Adam Becket (Red Star, L.I.T.A.–unfinished). It is really hard to capture the excitement of those Commodore days when Disney animators, physicists and artists all knew each other, the French minister of culture was at loft parties, the Japaneses government was studying the “scene” for its “creativity,” no one had money and the graphics were amazing. Randy Pausch captures that kind of all-nighter, low budget/no budget enthusiasm that can’t be bought or sold. The Last Lecture got me focussed back on what’s really important just a few seconds into it. My favorite image was the elevator. My kid was trying to design a DIY backpack size high rez game system for kids when he was in junior high–communicating online with physicists in Spain. The Last Lecture made me really grateful for knowing a certain inspiring and generous gaming/simulation colleague where I teach. It makes well-lit, chandelier crystal clear how our dreams live on in each other.

By: Jeffrese

Jeffrese — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:16:53 +0000

He’s got some BIG ASS BALLS

By: M.Devasenapathy

M.Devasenapathy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:52:53 +0000

Very very inspiring and interesting. Thanks for mailing.Everybody must see this and follow these in their life.

By: Susie

Susie — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:34:50 +0000

My rule of thumb is if you were to die today would you feel satisfied? And if not why not? And fix it. As Bob Dylan said “He not busy being born is busy dying.” Randy Pausch is being born more vibrantly as he is dying than most people are living. A great human being.

By: Here's The Thing

Here's The Thing — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:10:38 +0000

Hey, I know! Change the world for the better….

This professor, Randy Pausch, is the professor I always imagined all professors would be like when I got to college. Brilliant, interested, able to bring out the best in me. Inspiring. Better than me. Approachable. The reality is that very…

By: Joaquin

Joaquin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:37:24 +0000

Excellent. Thank you.

By: Krishnan Thampi

Krishnan Thampi — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:42:32 +0000

Very Inspiring, driving away the clouds in mind, breaking down the brick walls between dreams and reality! perishable body is nothing compared to the strength and wideness of spirit with focused mind and intellect.. your aura will inspire me at moments of weakness to wake up.. my salutations superman..

By: Goodluck to Randy family

Goodluck to Randy family — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:43:01 +0000

Many things to learn from his speech. Great man. God bless Randy and his family.

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:04:00 +0000

I attended CMU and never missed the Building Virtual Worlds day. Professor Pausch is an incredible person. My heart goes out to him and his family.

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:46:25 +0000

All i want to say, that is one remarkable man..

To have the courage to fight on, even though he knows his fate.. remarkable!

Its ironic that even though he is unlucky getting cancer, his also very, very lucky to get a chance to say good bye to his loved ones, as well as.. having the opportunity to spend quality time with his family..

God bless him, his wife and kids.

Mohammed

By: Fake Michael Arrington

Fake Michael Arrington — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:44:38 +0000

Hats off to a gr8 man
and no links this time….

By: Michael Geary

Michael Geary — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:26:37 +0000

I agree completely, Martin - that “informal tone” tag on the article did seem awfully tacky. Rather than just remove the tag, I cleaned up the article so it will hopefully be less likely that someone will tag it again. Let me know if they do and I’ll fix it again!

Randy Pausch is a remarkable individual and an inspiration to us all.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:59:42 +0000

@#18 & 21 - Good that it’s been fixed. I’m not really into Wiki’s or Wikipedia, just thought it was a bit harsh, a bit cold - especially visiting it after watching one of the most moving speeches I’ve ever seen.

This is not the time and place to have a gripe at Wikipedia (another time) - but to watch a great mind and person at work who’s facing his fate with such dignity I’ve never seen before.

It was a real honor to watch this video - and I plan to watch it a few times more, because some of the wisdom he offers on life and living is priceless.

By: Michael Geary

Michael Geary — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:39:48 +0000

Martin, you don’t have to complain about Wikipedia. It’s a wiki. You can fix it, and I just did. See if this looks better now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch

By: Uhhh..

Uhhh.. — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:32:38 +0000

Professor Pausch is a brilliant, brilliant man, and I’m honored to have studied under him and taken his course while at Carnegie Mellon. I don’t have much to add other than to thank you for this posting.

By: Sid Yadav

Sid Yadav — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:20:52 +0000

This was awesome - probably the most moving speech I’ve ever seen in my life. Watched it 3 times since.

I really really hope he never dies….somehow. The world needs people like this!

By: Fake "Fake Michael Arrington"

Fake "Fake Michael Arrington" — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:18:48 +0000

@#14 Martin:

If you look at the Wikipediia history on that article, you’ll see that DanielPenefield added that bit at 12:07, 24 September 2007.

Best part of Wikipedia: If you don’t like it, take it off! Delete that part that says “{story}” and it’s gone (at least for a while).

By: Jimmy Lau

Jimmy Lau — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:20:10 +0000

I love that video.

I will not forget that Jackie Robinson photo “Don’t complaint; Just work hard”. Thanks for sharing…

I remember I was kid… My schoolteacher told me. Don’t listen to people tell you what you can’t do. If you are born disability. You can do anything you want and create greatest triumph.
- Beethoven master his music without hearing
- Ray Charles play piano without seeing notes.
- Thomas Edison lost his hearing and invented light bulb.

As hard of hearing, my biggest dream to become first disability to get into IPO and create greatest bullish stock company. I saw Google & Baidu stock. They are expensive to buy.

I want to start tiny penny share. Bulltex is my tiny stealth mode search engine. http://www.bulltex.info (I’m still working on it)

All I need to do is create something bigger than looksmart, Yahoo financial, zoominfo, business.com website. I have work hard with Google API, Adsense, and Google killerapp plug-ins. I have work this alone.

By: P C

P C — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:11:32 +0000

Simply..thank you. My wife, children and myself are richer for hearing your teaching to your own children.