Randy Pausch' s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dream is about what he dreamed he as a child he would become when he got older. Randy Pausch begins his lecture talking about what his dreams were and how he achieved them. Mr. Pausch's dreams as a child were: being in zero gravity, playing in the NFL, authoring an article in the World Book encyclopedia, being captain kirk, winning stuffed animals, and being a Disney Imagineer.
This is a line Randy Pausch kept repeating in his lecture "brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things"; he means that brick walls are put in your path to stop you or hold you back, they are put there for you to prove that you are willing to do what ever it takes to achieve your goal. Mr. Pausch was able to achieve all of his dreams except one. The dream that he was not able to achieve was playing in the NFL. Even though he was not able to play in the NFL, he learned the fundamentals of football which are equally important as playing in the NFL.
While helping others enable their childhood dreams, Randy Pausch and another professor named Don at Carnegie Mellon University started a course called Building Virtual Worlds. It contained 50 students from different departments of the university, They were set up into teams of three people per group to come up with a virtual reality world. Mr. Pausch learned some lessons while being a educator, these things were respect authority while questioning it, learn from your students, have fun, never lose the child-like wonder, help others, and loyalty is a two-way street.
I enjoyed watching this lecture. It was a lot of good and valuable information that will help future teacher in achieving there goals. Randy Pausch brought up a lot of good points about childhood dreams.One point that he mentions is "never forget to have FUN". Even though sometime you go through a lot to achieve your dreams always remember to have fun.
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ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed watching The Last Lecture. Mr. Pausch is so inspiring and makes me want to write down my childhood dreams to achieve. I really liked his meaning of brick walls. I have never thought about brick walls that way before.
I also liked the meaning of "brick walls." I liked how he said "brick walls" were there for people to show how bad they wanted their dream. They keep out the people who do not want it bad enough. Also when he did not complete his dream of playing in the NFL he said that was some what more valuable then to have gotten to do it. Mr. Pausch said, "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." In order to learn in life you have to fail so it shouldn't be looked down upon to fail because in reality you are gaining a lot from failure.
ReplyDeleteI loved that Pausch reminds his viewers to never forget to have fun! Good job summarizing, but don't forget to proofread.
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