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.
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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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Review: The Last Lecture
Synopsis:
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.
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You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
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Book Review - The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
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.
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“Farewell, Aragorn! Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.”
“No!” said Aragorn, taking his hand and kissing his brow. “You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory. Be at peace! Minas Tirith shall not fall!” Boromir smiled. “Which way did they go? Was Frodo there?” said Aragorn. But Boromir did not speak again.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers.
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on the topic of polemical language one of my literature classes is an lgbt literature class (even though its more about film lol) but its taught by a "queer studies" professor who is a radical leftist nonbinary butch lesbian and they have the absolute best takes about the word queer and the fact that their department is even referred to as queer studies. idk its so funny to see someone fully aware of the concept of slur reclamation but 1) is much older and actually lived through the movements where the word queer was still transgressive and polemical and 2) is so completely unaware of the baffling notion that developed online that slur reclamation is about something "not being a slur anymore" OR about reclamation being about a list of people who get to say a word and a list of people who dont. like theyve iterated many times about how the word queer as a reclaimed term and political statement doesnt have anywhere near the radical power it used to have and you can tell theyre disappointed by that fact.
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