Thursday, May 1, 2008

The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch is suffering from pancreatic cancer and has little time left in his life to teach all the lessons that are still inside of him.

This video is his last lecture : the lessons he learned in his still too short life, imparted to all of us via the magic of Youtube. Watch, listen and learn.

This is a far cry from the last time I ever spoke to my students. Where I has a sense of dejection and doom about me for having made that fatal decision to stop teaching and begin a career in another field, Pausch is upbeat and in fine fettle for delivering the best class he's ever taught.

This man is a hero for me... and possibly, will be for you as well.