Friday, February 08, 2008

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

This lecture is given by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer. He gave his last lecture on Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

It is an extremely moving, very funny and very interesting talk, well worth watching all the way through.


2 comments:

Staggo"s List said...

What a wonderful video, and I am slowly working my way through your previous post. There is a lot (which is good) to absorb. Your blog is not American (duh); American Christianity has become so distorted. It's hard to listen to, because there is so much hateful chaff. So, you can see why I feel the freshness of your blog.

Simon said...

Thanks for your comments. I think you're right in saying that there is a difference between American & British Christianity. Although one American church leader & speaker who I personally think is wonderful is Rob Bell - a wonderful communicator, who although Evangelical, is not afraid to criticise what he sees as some of the mistakes of Evangelicalism in America. He's the pastor of Mars Hill Church go to http://www.marshill.org/ to check out more.