Through the Eyes of a Dreamer: The Last Lecture

Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Last Lecture

One of the best videos I've come across in recent times, Randy Pausch, (1960-2008) , a professor at CMU, Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction, while his days are numbered (pancreatic cancer), in his Last lecture tells us about the importance of realizing your childhood dreams and leading a happy life. Very touching and inspirational.

Version 1 : At the Oprah Winfrey Show - The Last Lecture Reprise.

Version 2 : The Full Lecture

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Words Sublime.

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self — struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence — you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they did’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

True to the Core !

Bitter Truth.