Wow - Don’t miss this Wall Street Journal article and short video in which Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, full of happy, positive energy—yet soon to die of pancreatic cancer—delivers his “final” speech.
In the speech, Pausch “talked about his childhood dreams: to win giant stuffed animals at carnivals, to walk in zero gravity, to design Disney rides, to write a World Book entry. By adulthood, he had achieved each goal.”
You can see the full lecture on Google Video.
One thing he said was quite an eye opener for me: “While displaying photos of his bosses and students over the years, he said that helping others fulfill their dreams is even more fun than achieving your own.”
I never thought of SuperViva that way, but it’s true. Randy Pausch is a model for how to approach living…and our inevitable dying.
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