Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science and Virtual Reality creation at CMU, creatively delivers his speech titled, “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” He speaks to the audience in a very informal manner, making himself more approachable and easy to listen to. He introduces his three main speech topics in the beginning, His Childhood Dreams, Enabling the Dreams of Others, and Lessons Learned. His first main point, His Childhood Dreams, is one where he looks back at the things he wished to do as a child and how worked to meet those dreams, or to walk away having learned something from failing. Paush touches on his dream to be in zero gravity and how by creatively overcoming barriers and persevering, he was…

The Last Lecture is a joint collaboration brought to the world from the minds of both Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow that made its debut in early 2008. The book reached the New York Times Best Selling list, and stayed for about 112 weeks, which explains the 4.23/ 5 rating received from Goodreads. The book is based on "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", the last lecture, Pausch was able to perform back in September 2008. The book is essentially about a university professor who summarized…

wanted to do before you died? Randy Pausch told the world about his life in his “last lecture”. I really enjoyed the Last Lecture, because it told a story about a life that was ended shortly by cancer. Randy was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University before his death. He thought before he passed on he needed to create a lecture named “Really achieving your Childhood Dreams”. On September 18, 2007. Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at age 47. He was still…

He found out that he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was told he had 3-6 months left to live. Soon after finding that out him and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia to be close to his wife’s family, so she would not be completely alone with the kids after he passed away. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and was invited to give a “Last Lecture”. He delivered his “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, at Carnegie Mellon on…

South African politician, Nelson Mandela once said, “Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” Randy Pausch was a college professor, who unfortunately passed away from pancreatic cancer. Randy’s parents gave him a wonderful childhood, in return, he had a lot of success. An abundance of children today dream of having a childhood like Randy Pausch’s. When Randy was a child, he had freedoms that children today do not get to encounter. His parents would encourage him to paint on…

The premise of this speech is to cover everything you would want to say if you were hypothetically dying and more specificly whatlessons and life experiences Randy Pausch wants to convey to his children . Randy Pausch starts with the “elephant in the room”, Pausch’s diagnosis of terminal cancer serves as an emotional backdrop for this lecture, slightly using ethos persuasive nature to attract the audience’s attention. In addition to revealing some of life’s important lessons, Pausch’s speech…

He was married to a loving, supportive wife Jai and had three children. His desire was to share his knowledge and wisdom, passing it on to his students. Randy was goal oriented, determined and successful. He too was a man of intelligence, integrity, and courage. He had a wonderful childhood, when talking about his parents he stated he won the parent lottery. Randy’s father was a medic in World War II and his mother was an English teacher. His parents had a love for education and they instilled…

In the speech, “The Last Lecture”. Given Randy Pausch gives advice to the listener from personal experience. Addressing what he believes to be good advice. He aims to leave the audience with a positive outlook on life and wanting them to learn to take challenges with stride and appreciate life. This presentation touches the hearts of many listeners and delivers his final messages beautifully. Moveover his words carry a lot of meaning and through them we see what he wants to convey. With…

The first phase is denial; this is when people initially find out that they are dying and are in disbelief. This leads to the second stage, where the person may be overcome with anger about their situation. The third phase is bargaining; were the person will try to do something, so that they can get better. This is then followed by the phase of depression. A sense of despair usually develops in this phase that leads to individuals being noncompliant with things like taking their meds. Finally,…

Leadership has always been a core part of who I am, because having a vision is a tiny bit of the puzzle towards making change. The true change comes from directing how other people act towards your goal. You can multiply the benefits of your endeavors when you have a larger group simultaneously working towards your goal. On Prior to this class i only understood that you can either be a good leader or a bad one. I also knew from personal experience that leadership styles varied according to the…