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Mathew's comments: Randy Pausch: Grace under pressure

  • Christine Herron · 2 years ago
    I saw this (and blogged: http://www.christine.net/2007/09/sobering-joyfu...) as well. Still thinking about it, and not sure what it was that made this moment in someone else's life so personally compelling. Is it because Prof. Pausch is a geek and so evidently 'one of us?' Because he's a frighteningly good storyteller? Or maybe because I'm At a Certain Age and am Looking for Meaning?

    I'm also verklempt, even a couple of days later.
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    I think it's all of those things, Christine -- and just the open and honest (and funny) way this guy is dealing with the fact that he is going to die in a matter of weeks. Incredible.
  • Sara Gold · 2 years ago
    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 www.mystudiyo.com : you can add your own questions at the end of the quiz.
    http://www.mystudiyo.com/activity.php?act=558
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