The Last Lecture... amazing

[MmacFN]

This man Randy Pausch, is amazing.


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[Happyin09]

My friend had emailed me this couple of days ago... I was really feeling down, sort of one of those days when I was really wondering how the hell am I going to do this and go through this program and not lose my mind... Watching this video makes you what is important... and reminds you what life is all about. I agree 100%, this guy is amazing and what ever time he has left... God bless him!!!
This video should be mandatory viewing for all SRNAs...

[cathys01]

Wow! I've been sitting here since about 5pm (it's 7:26pm now) when I started watching this video. It was an hour and 16 minutes and I watched it all (I'm avoiding a project in one of my BSN classes) and I had tears in my eyes when it was over. I also googled Randy Pausch and read updates on him and where he is now. He is currently heading to Washington DC to testify before Congress about pancreatic cancer research funding.

I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer 18 months ago, just before I started my quest for CRNA school. I had spent the summer talking with him about "following dreams" and with him encouraging me to just do it (which in my case meant moving to the adult ICU world and finishing my BSN). After he died my stepmother took me aside (that same day if I remember correctly) and told me that he wanted me to have whatever I needed from his insurance money to pursue my education.

I have two little brothers that are teenagers (younger than my own son that's in college) and I told her that anything he left should go to them... Every time I talk to her though, she still reminds me that he was so proud of me and wished he could live long enough to see me fulfill my dreams and to let her know if I need money for school.

I plan to do everything in my power to make it come true.

[oneira glika]

Absolutely AWESOME!!!
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[ADMIN]

Done!


Cathy. Amazing story. I suggest you email him with your story and how he has helped you. This is Randys email address: professorrandypausch AT gmail.com

You can find medical updates from Randy HERE (http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/%7Epausch/news/index.html)

He is writing a book about The Last Lecture which I will certainly buy and it will be avaliable HERE (http://www.thelastlecture.com/)

All of his lectures are HERE (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobins/Randy/)

He also has a lecture on time management which i have attached below.

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Absolutely AWESOME!!!
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[LEBFP]

I went to his lecture on time management - it was at UVA and it filled the auditorium. He's an amazing speaker and an amazing individual.

[GracefulRN]

So inspirational, I was a little misty though parts of it myself.

Absolutely some of the best life advice I have heard.

[DebbieC]

My husband died from pancreatic cancer. Should I watch this?

BTW, approx 32000 people/year get diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and about 32000 people die/year from pancreatic cancer. The diagnosed with and die from numbers are similar enough to be astoundingly sobering.

A small % of research $s go to pancreatic cancer research. No big mystery why....

[oneira glika]

My husband died from pancreatic cancer. Should I watch this?


Don't worry Debbie, he doesn't use more than 5 minutes to talk about his illness.

After watching this lecture, I highly reccomend following the links to watch his time management lecture which is equally good (if not better!)

[Robbie]

One of my classmates shared this with us all last fall when we were entrenched in our first semester. We were all in shell shock with the start of classes and tests and so on. I know personally when I finished watching this I knew I was going to be ok in school and needed to kick it up a notch to keep going. This was a wonderful, uplifting and funny, funny video to watch. I emailed Randy to let him know how much he had done for all of us in class who watched it. I guess we all need a little reality check now and then to keep us humble. Thanks for sharing with so many more folks.

[TJ8A]

Sadly, Randy Pausch died today.:sadwavey:

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_en_ot/obit_pausch)

[melanesthetist]

:angel: An inspiration to us all!
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[MmacFN]

sad buisness

[ardys1]

I'm so sad to hear he's died. The world could use more people like him. That video is completely worth the 1 hour and 15 minutes (approx.) it takes to watch... :saint:

[TJ8A]

I just want to add a few things…


This forum brings a lot of answers and knowledge to those in seek of them.

What I never expected was to find Randy’s lectures here. I first saw them here so it was the first I had heard of him. They were great. Exactly the thing I needed at the time they were posted. Had I not been on this website, I may not have found them.

This thread is one reason I am glad I joined this forum and post as often as I can. Not only is this forum a crutch for me while I am in school, but also a way for me to keep track of what’s important in life.

[dkbmcclellan1]

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[perhayem]

I cried when I saw his lecture awhile back. So intelligent and dynamic, such a love for life. He is a much needed inspiration in a world where so many healthy individuals do not live their lives to their fullest potential.

[tractorRN]

His lecture is incredible. Helps us all to realize life is about perspective. Helpful when we all lose ours from time to time. God bless his family

[Wakullaangler]

I know this thread was started several months ago, but I watched Dr. Randy's lecture yesterday after my last summer exam. Very inspirational. I do not know if I will get to exercise my right brain much in clinical, but I am quite sure some brick walls will appear. Hearing how this man with vision dealt with "brick walls" really helped with getting me pumped up to start the second phase of school. Thanks for the post, He died today, very ironic. His spirit live in all who dreamed. Peace and Love, sleep lightly on feather pillows with honeyed bodies. -wakullaangler

[gamel]

What a phenomenal piece of video. I especially got excited when he spoke about his “deathbed conversion” being that he got a Macintosh, so that particularly spiked my interest. (Although it has nothing to do with the content of this video)For someone to have such big dreams and to achieve them in some fashion, while *including those around him for the ride* is just pure awesome. I liked how even though he “failed” his NFL dream, how he was still able to take so much away from the experience because he CHOSE to make it worthwhile, he even went as far as to say that he learned form that more then he learned from the ones he achieved.As the video went on I was quite surprised how he was able to accomplish his dreams, which when he first laid them I thought they were pretty far fetched.