Blog Post 7

Professor Randy Pausch has a very touching story. He has multiple tumors in his liver and was told he will only live healthy for three months. Although from just listening to and looking at Randy you would have no idea. He looks like any ordinary person and is in shape he even does clapping push-ups.

He starts off his speech with touching on his childhood goals and lets you know that you should never be told no or that you cannot be something if you apply yourself to it. He has a very interesting point about parents putting their kids into sports. He says that parents place their children in sports at young ages not to make them professional athletes but to install lifelong lessons such as teamwork, cooperation, responsibilities, leadership skills, and many others.



He also makes some valid points while he was a professor teaching a visual arts class. He talks about an instance where he gave a two week project and all his students came back when the two weeks were over with overwhelmingly outstanding work. He was so shocked he talked to his mentor and asked for advice what to do. His mentor explains that if he seems content with their work then they will not have any room for improvement and they will also seem content and then they will not try any harder. He later goes on to tell that there work was so great that on the day their projects were due they would have audiences to present their art work too in class.

At the end of the video he goes to say that he believes in Karma. He says even if you are wrong you should say sorry and do not lie tell the truth. He says that yesterday was his wife’s birthday and even though this is called his last speech and he talks less about himself and focuses the last part on getting the crowd involved in singing happy birthday to her because she did not get the proper birthday. He says luck is where preparation meets opportunity. After the whole speech is over he says this talk was not for you it was for his kids.