Must See: Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

[pokerfan]

This is fucking amazing!



Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "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. For more, visit http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/">www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo">Long version (original lecture given at CMU)

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw">Short reprised version delivered on Oprah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch">Wiki: Randy Pausch

[mitchum]

1. A friend of mine was just telling me about this at dinner last night

thanks

[pokerfan]

2. It's gone viral

My sister emailed it to me this morning.

[pokerfan]

3. ::kick::

[Lethe]

4. well i watched the whole thing

while waiting for the paint to dry before i put a 2nd coat on.

For me the whole thing could be summed up as thus:

If you are kind and hardworking person who was raised right by a loving family and are surrounded by friends and mentors who love and respect you, you can acheive all of your realistic goals.