Randy Pausch

academic year, and were to be completed based on their selection, in addition to the required novel. I remember being unfamiliar with nearly every novel on the list, so I chose one and skipped straight to the required novel, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. My initial thoughts were of genuine disappointment;…

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is a book about life. It is a collection of stories that mean something special to Pausch and combined together, weave lessons that transcend far beyond mere words alone. With these lessons, Pausch extends his ideas to the reader, and encourages to live out their lives knowing more. The Last Lecture is a story that affected how I looked at the world and made me think of how I could apply his lessons to my life. Personally, Pausch’s lessons opened my eyes to the…

taken away from us. However, with a family you will want to pass on your love and advice which is what Professor Randy Pausch did in The Last Lecture. He concluded that he needed to tell everyone about his life to teach them to live their life to the fullest and how to overcome any brick walls that you come across before his life was past the point of no return. When Professor Pausch was diagnosed with cancer, he experienced…

1. To be a Doctor and take care of orphans, and seniors : When I was a little kid, I always dreamed about being a doctor. The reason for me to be a doctor was to cure and help people out of disease. Whenever I would see a child or a senior coughing or struggling with their life, my eyes would get filled up with tears. I genuinely felt bad for them. It is not just my dream to take care of orphans or seniors, but my goal that I want to achieve eagerly. My seniors are the individuals…

had Auditory processing Disorder. From then till about 5th grade I had two tutors that helped me with reading and comprehension, and spelling it is now my strongest subject “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”- (Randy pausch, The last lecture) This lecture is about the importance of family, achieving your dreams, and finding out what you really want out of life. Family to me are the people that love you the most and are the people that will always care about you…

The words above come across as simple, and reductive. That sentence written or said anywhere else would be regarded as a cliché self-help mantra. Yet, they have become a mantra I choose to live by. They remind me that every decision I make, no matter how trivial at that moment, is important in the grand scheme of things. The ability to affect such widespread change from little is indispensable to leadership, and the career I have chosen for myself. As a Public health major, I am constantly…

In the book “The Last Lecture”, chapter fifty three, Randy Pausch explains and tells a story to give an example of him getting over a brick wall and never giving up. Randy wanted to teach the reader to never give up and to get over that brick wall in front of them. This part in his life taught him that once you get over that wall, you should share your experience with others and possibly inspire them. A quote from the chapter that stood out to me was “the moral is: If you want something bad…

Randy Pausch, an American professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, gave an inspiring last lecture full of life lessons and ways to look at life in a positive way with just months left to live. Randy knew he was going to die, but he also knew that he had a message that many people needed to hear; he changed lives just before his ended. The concept that people are more important than objects is used constantly throughout the book, from winning the parent…

In one’s life, there are bound to be times where events or things happen that get in the way of a dream or goal. It’s easy to blame the obstacle in these situations as the root of failure, but that’s not actually the case according to Randy Pausch. His understanding of obstacles or “brick walls” as he states, “brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” In Pausch’s book, The Last Lecture, there are many instances throughout his life where a…

Lecture is a novel about a boy/man named Randy Pausch who grew up in Pittsburgh, but then had to move to Virginia because he found out he had pancreatic cancer. When Randy discovered that he had cancer his decisions no longer were only for him, but were also for his family. In this novel the readers learn really what Randy was about and what he lived for. Rather than Randy just making this novel because he wanted people to mourn over him having cancer, Randy made this novel because he wanted his…