The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

In Randy Pausch 's "Last Lecture," Randy discusses how he achieved all of his childhood dreams throughout his life and how he helped others achieve their dreams. Often times, childhood dreams are forgotten due to life stressors, other opportunities and interests that come along and, ultimately, believing that those childhood dreams are unachievable. However, this was not the case for Randy Pausch. Randy created a list of things that he desired to experience throughout his lifetime, and through persistency, acceptance and some modification, he was able to complete his list. Similar to many children 's "being an astronaut" dream, Randy had a couple dreams that seemed impossible. These seemingly impossible dreams on Randy 's list included: "being in zero gravity," "playing in the NFL," and "being Captain Kirk." While Randy never received the opportunity to play football for the NFL, his understanding and lessons learned from his football experiences made up for this shortcoming. Nonetheless, Randy was able to conquer all of his other dreams. With each dream Randy discusses, he explains each "brick wall" he hit along his way and what he did to get around these walls.

What would you do if you had limited time left to live? Many people take life for granted but when their life is suddenly compressed into a matter of weeks left, they soon realize the beauty of life and how they lived it. In response to his restricted time left caused by pancreatic cancer, writer Randy Pausch argues that life should be lived to the fullest in his book The Last Lecture.He effectively builds his claim through the use of pathos, allusions to literature, and metaphors.

In the novel, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow, Pausch recalls painting his bedroom walls after the permission of his parents. If my parents gave me permission to paint my bedroom walls, I would first paint on my favorite quotes on one wall. They could be quotes from my favorite books, movies, or important historical figures. For example, Mahatma Gandhi’s quote, “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” is a quote that I have to remember to follow when I am afraid to become a leader and change what needs to be changed in life. Basically, the quotes would be up on the wall just so I can look at them everyday for inspiration, or when I need them when I hit rock bottom. In addition, I would paint on all the ideas and hobbies

1. In the novel, The Last Lecture, the main character Randy Pausch explains how he is able to change or grow depending on the situation in his life. He says “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” What he means by this is that a negative situation can be reversed into something positive depending on how you look at it. He also says “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” This quote means that you will face many challenges in your life, but if you want something bad enough you can get it. A third quote that shows how Randy Pausch is able to grow or change is “If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can’t do today.” This quote shows that if you try as hard as you can for something, it can be done.

A seminar series titled “The Last Lecture” took place at Carnegie Mellon University. Professors were prompted to deliver lectures as if it was their last, while containing a “message of a lifetime”. Professor Randy Pausch delivered his speech titled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” as a part of this seminar on September 18th, 2007, a time in which had just been given life-threatening news. It had recently been estimated by doctors that this was the last three to six months of his life. Instead of speaking as if he was hypothetically dying like his fellow professors, Pausch was in an extremely ironic situation, as for in his case he really was dying, of pancreatic

Making everyday count shapes life’s journey by helping you gain a positive outlook and making life more enjoyable. If you make the conscious decision to live your life to the fullest, you will find that by working hard and remaining positive, life will seem better. In The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, the author emphasizes the importance of making everyday count and working hard to achieve your dreams, because you never know when your life can be taken from you. After Pausch was diagnosed with life terminating cancer, he made the decision to remain positive and write a final lecture about achieving your dreams and embracing life instead of letting his prognosis negatively affect him. In The Last Lecture, Pausch shares how he was able to make

Great advice can change a life forever. In the speech “Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” by Randy Pausch, his good advice can change someone's life for the better and can have a positive impact on life. Pausch talks about his life and the struggles he faced throughout his life. He talks about the hardships of life as well as the remarkable moments worth remembering and the inspirational moments. Great advice can change a life forever.

Randy Pausch being put down with bad news all the time what can you do to bring you up you let go and face reality there is nothing you can do to fix it but hope for the best but even that is not enough to be satisfying in today life but what can you do there not a lot you can do to fix your problem but you can try with the time you have left to be close to your family but with Randy he decided to make a presentation instead of focusing on his family and he wrote a great book telling his live to his kids and the world show how he became to be the man that once had everything he can wish for turn around now has nothing in this world. He now losing everything little by little it’s sad to go down like this when you have kids that will not remember

I couldn’t imagine going through the same situation as Randy Pausch, it’s possibly the hardest thing to hear. With that in mind, I would have to try to make the best out of it; like Paucsh said “You have to decide whether you are a Tigger or Eyeore. With strength and pain I would try my best to always be the fun-loving Tigger in my last moments. My decision would be to spend my last moments doing what I love with the people who are closest to me. The memories that you make will over power having all the materialistic things in the world.

4. The title of the book The Last Lecture is pretty self-explanatory. Randy Pausch, the author of the novel, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is to kill him in a short amount of time. The title “The Last Lecture” simply stands for the last lecture he gave at Carnegie Melon University. Pausch says, “The obvious part is being with, and taking care of, my family. While I still can, I embrace every moment with them, and do the logistical things necessary to ease their path into a life without me. The less obvious part is how to teach my children what I would have taught them over the next twenty years. They are too young now to have those conversations. All parents want to teach their children right from wrong, what we think is important, and how to deal with the challenges life will

I found this book to be well written and researched, the downside of it was it felt more like an essay. The background stories and information was repeated several times, repetition can be good but to much just makes it seem like you ran out of things

I really liked this book because it was very interesting to learn about how people make life decisions, and that it's okay to change your ideas. I loved reading about the stories he learned from all of the patients that he would help. One of my favorite stories was the one about when a man was an alcoholic and said that he diluted it with water which was sad, but it was also funny. This is why I loved this book because of the real stories that are way more interesting because they are true. It was also

The Last Lecture began as a good-bye speech, made by Randy Pausch, a 47 year old professor diagnosed with terminal cancer. His speech at Carnegie Melon University became an Internet phenomenon. It has also been published as a book. I really thoroughly enjoyed his Last Lecture speech. He had a lot of good talking points and brought up some new perspectives, or ways of looking at life situations that got me thinking. He talked a lot about his dreams when he was a child and was very humorous and inspirational throughout his speech. He also had a lot of quotes that I really enjoyed and they are what I want to focus on.

Randy made his journey happen because he wanted to enforce the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, and seizing every moment. In his book, he wanted to answer the questions…”What wisdom would we impact to the world if we knew it was our last chance” and “if we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our

After you think about those repeated references to music, I realised that of course music is going to be a big part of a man’s life who has dedicated his entire life to it. In an autobiography, you can clearly get a feel for what is important for the writer in his life, and for Allman, it’s clearly his music and his family. He tells the story of his 4th marriage with two sentences, while the death of his brother, Duane Allman, who died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 24 carries throughout the entire book like a dark shadow, making Gregg Allman’s already troubling drug addiction and alcoholism even worse, almost to the point of killing him. Duane is also often present in the book even before his death, marking his significance. Starting to read the book, it makes it hard for the reader to feel bad for a mega rich rockstar, even though his childhood was far from happy, but after you get into the story, you read about the death of his brother, the band’s bassist, Berry Oakley, who also met his fate in a motorcycle accident, very