>Randy Pausch, 47, famous for his remarkable taped speech known as the “last lecture” which was a sensation throughout the web last year passed away on Friday. His last lecture at Carnegie Mellon, where he was a professor, was inspirational in it’s life lessons, but the most remarkable aspect was that he knew he had terminal pancreatic cancer before he gave the speech. Instead of focusing on the negatives he looked at achieving what he hadn’t and what was important in life (family). In the lecture, he spoke of overcoming the obstacles that may seem insurmountable. If you haven’t seen the last lecture, I urge you to spend the time (about 75 minutes) to watch it. For those of us who are going through tough times, this provides much needed inspiration.
Jim, from Blueprint for Financial Prosperity and a former Carnegie Mellon alumni published a copy of the official letter from the university on the professor’s death and I thought the following line was the most striking:
Perhaps the greatest lesson, however, Randy taught us all was how to live, even in the face of great challenges, and how to follow our passion. While Randy’s greatest passion was clearly his family, he did not shy from sharing his passion for his work as a professor, for his students, and for Carnegie Mellon. We will miss Randy, but we will carry the memory of him and all that he did to make Carnegie Mellon a better university and each of us who knew him a better person.
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