Den døende professorens siste forelesning
Randy Pausch er 46 år gammel, gift, småbarnsfar og professor ved Carnegie Mellon University. Nå har han også kreft og få måneder igjen å leve.
Den 18. september holdt han sin aller siste forelesning for en fullpakket sal. Over 400 hadde møtt opp for å høre professorens avskjedsforelesning. Wall Street Journal kalte forelesningen for “the lecture of a lifetime”. Noe de som var tilstede mer enn gjerne vil bekrefte at det var.
Her kan du se hele forelesningen. (Inkludert en 8 minutter lang intro før Randy Pausch begynner forelesningen sin.)
Og her er noen glimt fra forelesningen:
Noen høydepunkter:
- “Don’t Complain, Just Work Harder.”
- “It is not about Achieving your Dreams but Living your Life. If you lead your Life the right way, the Karma will take care of itself, the Dreams will come to you. “
- “Never underestimate the importance of having Fun. I’m dying and I’m having Fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day, because there’s no other way to play it.”
- “We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I’m not as depressed as you think I should be, I’m sorry to disappoint you.”
- “Brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop people who don’t want it badly enough.”
- “No one is pure evil. Find the Best in everybody…. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their Good side. Just keep waiting.”
- “Experience is what you get when you Didn’t get what you Wanted.”
- “Never lose the child-like Wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what Drives us. Help others.”
- “How do you get people to help you? You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the Truth. Being earnest. I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person any day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”
- “Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple and powerful thing.”
- “Having Fun for me is like a fish talking about the importance of water. I don’t know how it is like not to have Fun… I will keep having Fun everyday I have left.”
- “It is Important to have Specific Childhood Dreams.”
- “Be Good at Something; it makes you Valuable.”
- “I’m sorry I won’t be around to raise my kids. It makes me very sad but I can’t change that fact, so I did everything I could with the time I have and the time I had to help other people.”
- “I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.”
- “If someone rides on you for 2 hours, you know they care for you” (on his experiences in baseball training)
- “To be cliché, death is a part of life and it’s going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.”
- If you want to achieve your dreams, you better learn to work and play well with others. Tell the Truth. That means you got to live with integrity.
- A good apology has three parts: 1. “I’m sorry”; 2. “It was my fault” and 3. “How do I make it right”. The last part tells about your sincerity.
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