Thing 12 is to share a link to a useful online video or presentation.
So, given that it is always useful to be inspired, watch Professor Randy Pausch’s last lecture. Entitled ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’, this 10 minute video is an abridged reprise – abridged from the original 1:44:09 lecture delivered after a standing ovation from a packed auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University. The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical ‘final talk’, with a topic such as, ‘what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?’ The elephant in the room was that this indeed was Pausch’s last chance as he had terminal pancreatic cancer.
Pausch lectured in Computer Science with sabbaticals at both Walt Disney’s Imagineering studio and Electronic Arts. The video is slightly dated, but its message absolutely timeless.
Childhood dreams image by TheFoxAndTheRaven at deviantART.
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