Randy Pausch's Last Lecture deals with pursuing your dreams and breaking down any walls that may stand in your way. He states in his lecture "If a brick wall is in front of you then you must work harder to achieve it because the brick walls only determine how badly you want to achieve this." Who better to to teach this great lesson of life than Randy who has and is battling a brick wall daily. Randy is an inspiration to us all, never letting that brick wall stop him. He defies the meaning of giving up and tries to help everyone understand the meaning of determination and achieving your dreams no matter what walls are put before you.
During the lecture Randy listed many of his childhood dreams that to most would seem impossible, but to Randy nothing was impossible. Randy always managed to find a way to find some piece of his dream and make it into reality. For example, his dream for floating in space. This dream only becomes reality for a handful of people over many hardworking years. Randy took this dream knowing this and made it reality by making it a project for him and his class. The project wasn't exactly what his dream was but he found a way to get as close as he good and learn many lessons from it. He managed to do this with most of his dreams. I believe it was more of a way to learn how to achieve than to experience the actual dream. By doing this he built his knowledge over the years and would eventually be the man he is today. Not only for himself but for all of us who dream but who never have the determination to follow our dreams.
Pausch also tries to instill in all of us just how important the people in our lives are. How they actually help to mold our lives and who we become. It teaches us how to look for the good in everyone and use that good to help improve our lives. We learn to work hard, listen to our peers and take everyday lessons to make our lives successful. Randy also explains just how important it is to show our thankfulness and gratitude to the people in our lives for our lives to be truly meaningful.
In the last section of the lecture Randy expresses the importance of lessons learned and how in order for us to learn totally from the lesson we must experience it in a fun childlike manner. He feels that learning the true meaning of life and our dreams can only be truly achieved when we are having fun. Pausch expresses the importance of knowing its ok to screw up but we must be in an area of life that we know its ok to admit it and apologize so we can focus on others and not ourselves. That we learn the true lessons of life from others and that is the only way to be totally successful.
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