Randy Pausch's lecture was "about" ways to achieve your childhood dreams. His talk was in three parts. He talked about his childhood dreams, how he did and we can enable someone else's childhood dreams, and the lessons learned from his experience and our experience of hearing him speak.
He had a ton of excellent ideas and methods to live your life by. There were several that stood out to me. "Brick walls are there to show how bad we want something." "Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals!" "Have something to bring to the table; it makes you valuable. Like his observation about Captain Kirk not being an expert at anything besides being the leader of his crew. I liked what he told us about how "we are doing our students a disservice by setting the bar anywhere" when it comes to our expectations of them.
He spoke about his childhood dreams and how he fulfilled most of them and how some changed along the way. He spoke a lot about the programs and ideas that he used to help other people achieve their childhood dreams. Including: Building Virtual Worlds, ETC and the Alice program. The lessons learned he spoke about included be good at something, work hard, and find the best in everybody. (you may not see it right away but he says wait long enough and EVERYONE will show you there good side.
The greatest part of Randy Pausch’s lecture was the topic of the head-fake. From the point that he explained what a head-fake was… I started noticing everything he was saying and realized that’s what he was doing to his audience. Little did I know he would reveal that at the very end? This was an incredibly inspiring talk. I’m so thankful that I was assigned to watch his video. I very much plan on buying his book and telling my family members to watch this video. I believe it would do them a lot of good.
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