I really enjoyed the video. Randy Pausch is just so full of life and really is a great speaker. He began by sharing some personal information about the fact that the doctors have found 10-12 tumors in his liver and that he has three months of good healthy life left.Pausch found this out a month ago but still has a positive attitude and really shows his humorous personality throughout the lecture. Thiswawa s motivation enough for me to listen to his speech.
His lecture was about: Childhood Dreams, Enabling dreams of others, and about Lessons learned:How to achieve your dreams and enable the dreams of others. Pausch explained about his childhood dreams. His second dream was to play in the NFL. Although this dream didn't come true for him he learned the most from it than any other dream that he achieved. His first coach taught him that fundamentals were important and without them the fancy plays could not be achieved. He also learned that having someone to watch over you and correct you when you're doing things wrong is positive because that means that that person cares. Pausch's coach made this quote:"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." This is also where he discusses what he refers to as a "Head fake". A "Head Fake" is a form of indirect teaching so in other words its what you learn unintentionally. Playing most sports involves an indirect teaching of teamwork, sportsmanship, and perseverance. He also made this quote, ".Brick Walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things". In the end Pausch has achieved most of his childhood dreams and learned favorable lessons from each experience.
His final dream listed was "Being a Disney Imagineer". This dreamed was achieved and he worked one-day week for ten years. He began this career working with the Aladdin VR. This then escalated to "Building Virtual Worlds". This program was set for fifty students from the various departments, the students had two weeks to design,implement, and test, and were responsible for five projects throughout the semester. The students blew him away after the first assignment and Pausch then learned that you shouldn't think less of people cause they will always surprise you.
Under the Lesson's Learned profile Pausch listed some of the people who may contribute to a person's success in fulfilling his/her goals. Some that were listed were: Parents, teachers, Mentors, Friends, and Colleagues. From this section of the lecture Pausch pointed out some really interesting points and suggestions. Among them were: Never Give Up, Help Others, Never Loose the Child like Wonder, Learn from you students. A few suggestions for how to get people to help were: tell the truth, apologize when you screw up, and focus on others and not yourself.
The "Head Fake" was that if you live your life the right way that karma will take care of itself and your dreams will come true.
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