Last week I watched the video of the last lecture "achieving your childhood dreams", given by Randy Pausch.However, untile today I have the time to write down my feelings.
Randy is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, and he's dying. In 2006, Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and less than a year later, the cancer metastasized to his liver and spleen. He was given six months to live. Shortly after this diagnosis, Randy given his "last lecture".
I am really moved and inspired by this lecture. During this lecture, which lasted almost one and half hours, there was no cry and sadness but laugh and humor. As a man who is dying in a few months because of cancer, you can still feel his happiness, his persistence to dream, his power and his love.
This lecture makes up with three sections:
1. how to realize the childhood dreams;
2. how to help others to make their dreams come true;
3. lessons learned from the life of himself.
In this lecture, something impresses me deeply.
the optimistic attitude to life
When there is only a drop of water in his cup, he still can find out the happiness and brightness from it. I think that is becacuse he really has lived his life. When our life is in low situation, we should have a attitude Just as he said: We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
The brick wall appears in his PPT for several times. Yes, there's always a brick wall for dream climbers. But he said:
Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
Brick walls just stop those who don't want it so badly. And we will finally get through the wall because we want it badly. There's about the dream and the setback. He is right and he realize his dreams.
How to get people help you
l You can't get there alone, and I believe in Karma
2 Tell the truth
3 Be earnest
4 Apologize when you screw up
5 Focus on others, not yourself