I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.
‘Hip’ people love parodies. But there’s no such thing as a timeless parody, is there? I have more respect for the earnest guy who does something that can last for generations, and that hip people feel the need to parody.
I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
Randy Pausch, 'The Last Lecture': The Parent Lottery
I definitely won the parent lottery. The idea that Randy Pausch’s family was brought up on ‘dictionaries and encyclopaedias’ rang a bell. In my parents’ home the shelf was lined with dictionaries.
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.
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“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”—Randy Pausch
Computer science professor Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006. The doctor told him the tumor was operable and he could make it through.
However, in August 2007, Pausch discovered the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen. The doctor said the cancer was now terminal, and he had a…
Author: Randy Pausch
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Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, gives his “last lecture” after his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
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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: 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 computer 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 terminal 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 had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
Plot:
One could wish they would achieve their childhood dream. For Randy Pausch, he managed that, before dying young due to pancreas cancer. Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and because of his terminal cancer diagnosis, gave an audience of hundreds his final lecture, inspiring them to achieve their childhood dreams. This novel has snippets from his talk, and Pausch’s life as he uses this novel not only to tell his story but to pass on his wisdom to his three children whom he will never see grow up. Pausch’s lecture contained motivation on how to really achieve your childhood dreams, and life lessons Pausch thinks everyone should know about. At 47 years old Pausch leaves us too soon, leaving this novel to be their lasting legacy.
Thoughts:
What wise words that dying man Randy Pausch left for us to read. Words from a dying man are always lasting, and for Pausch’s book, they really dive into your core, as Pausch wanted to show readers that life is worth living, despite the author himself dying. These words of wisdom were from a father to his three children, and not knowing Pausch’s family, you can tell he would have been a great father, and it is a shame that his life was cut too soon. The writing was slow, with each word on purpose, and where you might not share the same joys Pausch shared for education and computer science, you can admire him for being a person that pursued his dreams until his final day. I love how much Pausch contributed this novel to their wife, Jai, and to their three children, as often I felt like I was invading a private conversation with how open Pausch was. This book does have a life advice session, it is more about Pausch’s life and how they managed to achieve their dreams, and less about how you can achieve yours. Making this story more of an autobiography than a life advice story, however, Pausch did try to include the readers in on a few inside jokes. Overall, this is just a story about a man, who despite dying, managed to live a good life, and uses this novel to tell their children what type of person their father was.
This book was written by Randy Pausch, a computer science professor that was asked to deliver a talk titled ‘The Last Lecture.’ While a lot of university professors give this kind of talks where they are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them, this was a very special ask for professor Pausch since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
But his…
This is me, this is you, here we are and there you go.
I remember the book,
by
Randy Pausch.
The Last Lecture.
He was an American Computer Scientist.
the book
discussed his final years,
and his parting lecture with students
before he died from pancreatic cancer, age 47,
Fortunately,
The circumstances of my last lecture are not so bad.
I just fell-out,
grew apart.
A flaky relationship.
Over the years, I have been teaching…
Book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
I found many of the books I thought I knew, and I loved all of them all, but in one way or another, I found myself thinking about my current subject matter. In those books, an idea strikes me as one that has little relevance to what happens outside of the context of a class.