How To Live – Inspirational Speech by Dr Randy Pausch

There’s an academic tradition called “The Last Lecture.

“Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?”

Well, for me, there’s an elephant in the room, and the elephant in the room is that for me it wasn’t hypothetical. I have been fighting pancreatic cancer. It has now come back after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation and the doctors tell me there is nothing more to do and I have months to live. ~ Randy Pausch

 

 

The wonderful thing about this video and the full version you can watch below is that it reminds you to live in a way to re-focus your thoughts and priorities to set better goals and fulfil your dreams.

Randy Pausch is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center, and creator of the Alice software project.

This is a clip of Randy Pausch reprising his inspirational “Last Lecture” on the Oprah show on the Oprah Show (Oct 22, 2007).  See the full-length version here 

 

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