Just a quick head’s up in case you haven’t seen this video from Randy Pausch. Randy is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University where the professor’s have a tradition of giving their “last lecture:” the lecture they would give if they were dying. Well for Randy, this is not just an exercise. Randy is dying of cancer.
He gave this lecture on How to Achieve Your Childhood Dreams
I could tell you more about it, but I think I’ll leave it to Randy. However, I will encourage you to spend the full 11 1/2 minutes watching this first video all the way through to the end. There are some truly powerful insights at the end.
Here’s the 12-minute “cliff’’s notes version of the lecture he gave on the Oprah show recently:
And here is the full lecture he presented at Carnegie Mellon. This one is over an hour.
