The famous “Last Lecture” speech is moving speech by Randy Pausch, a father a husband, and a greatly remembered computer science professor at Carnegie Melon University. In his mid-40s he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He had 10 tumors in his liver and was given 3 to 6 months to live. This speech is a wonderful story of his life and accomplishments and has great rewarding lessons throughout the whole lecture. He says that he is not going to talk about cancer, his wife or kids (because it makes him upset), or spirituality and religion. The main point of this speech was childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others, and lessons learned. He shares his childhood dreams and how he basically accomplished all of him because he tried and Another great quote from this lecture was “brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” I love this because this means you have to work hard for things and that if there is something in the way you can waiver around that to get to what you really want. A lot of people make excuses for their problems and not being able to get where they want to go but there is no excuse because like the quote says the knocking the brick walls down isn’t as hard as it seems and it shows how hard you’re willing to work for what you really want. Hearing this from Randy made me realize maybe I’m not giving my full potential to things that I want and that’s something I myself can easily fix. I need to be the one to push down those brick walls so I can get to I think that one of the most important things it to show love and be kind to everyone. Of course not to the point where advantage is taken but life is much better when you love the people around you. I do believe that “love makes the world go round” and that not enough love is a big problem with the world. The people you love is what makes your life so great. We also never know when the last day is so it is good to mindful of how you love your loved ones and make sure that you’re loving them in a way they deserve to be loved. Although I’m only 19 I have life lessons that I have learned that I think are great things to live by. My first life lesson would be to always be kind. It’s very simple but creates a world of a difference. This means so much to me in so many ways. Kindness will make a person feel better even if they aren’t that way themselves. I’ve seen the change simple kindness can do. It can change the outlook on someone’s life or give someone a little hope. My second life lesson is to always have a positive attitude. Do not be negative. Negativity has no good to it and all it does is throw people down. It’s important that you radiate a positive attitude to other people because they will feel better about being around you. I used to have a negative outlook on life and think that everything was horrible. Now that I’ve gotten older I’ve seen the importance of positivity. By me changing my negative
Award-winning author Mandy Hale once stated, “Without negativity, life would be amazing.” However, this statement does not always prove to be true. Today’s modern community generates a judgement that negative experiences will ruin your life, but studies show that negativity can actually result in positive change. For example, negativity can positively change teenagers actions, introduce teenager’s to more supportive environments, and help fix broken relationships.
Diagnosed with cancer and given just months to live, Randy Pausch decided to give a last lecture. Randy felt this was important so that he may give a sort of goodbye to those who he cared about, share advice and life-experiences that he felt were important, and most importantly for his kids, whom would never really get to know him because of their age. This book is a collection of stories and general life advice that Randy felt was important to share before moving on.
Morrie's are the most basic lessons, but in a world full of suspicion, consumerism, and ostracized people, they need to be given again and again: We all should take time to stare out the window instead of at your computer screen. Have a laugh. It's natural to die. Love is how you stay alive.
Dr. Pausch mentions that every individual will show his good side if we wait patiently and that no individual is pure evil. I think this is a something I can truly apply in my life, as I am a person who forms an opinion about someone very quickly and find it very difficult to change that in due course of time. Also the concept of brick walls in life being there to show dedication and make you obstinate is something I will remember in life moving forward. This lecture given by Dr. Pausch truly displays courage, appreciation for life and the very simple concept of ‘work hard and have fun doing it’ which results in a great success. A very tearful watch but delivers a strong life message and caused me to reflect back at my own life and see things in positive light.
Growing up our parents taught us several lessons about life values and principles that we are supposed to follow. We learn that human life is precious, we learn that we are all equal, we...
come with a goal in life - to succeed on it. With that kind of mentality I
“Sometimes it 's easy to walk by because we know we can 't change someone 's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.” ~ Mike Yankoski
To make haste to be kind to all others, understanding that life is too short to be vengeful or malicious, too soon ended to be petty or unkind. For the rest of my life, this very special day, God help me. To keep reminding myself that in order to harvest more ears of corn in the fall, I must plant more kernels in the spring. To understand that life always rewards me on the terms that I establish, and if I never perform or deliver more than that for which I am paid, never will I have reason to demand or expect and additional gold. To always deliver more than is expected of me, whether at work, at play, or at home. To labor with enthusiasm and l9ove, no matter what the task at hand may be, realizing that if I cannot secure happiness out of my work I will never know what real happiness is.
Time is all you have and you have to make the most of it. Randy Pausch had pancreatic cancer and according to his doctors he had only three to six months left to live, but that did not matter to Randy. Randy made the most of his time to spend with his family and preparing his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon to leave something to his kids to look back on. Randy shows us that time is not to be wasted sitting around and doing nothing. Randy also shows us to manage our time to do everything that is needed to be done. Finally, Randy shows us that time can change people for good or for worse. From this book, I learned that you have to spend all of your
The freedom my parents gave me growing up and the freedom this country gives me every day lets me grow into the person I am today. I would be a drastically different person if I hadn’t been able to make decisions on my own. I believe I would be a lot more rebellious if I didn’t have so much freedom growing up. My parents trusted me to make good decisions, and if I did make bad decisions they believed that I would learn from them. I think that helped me become my own person and learn to be happy with my decisions, good or poor. Now skipping to the bottom of my list, the number 17 on my list was “wisdom: a mature understanding of life”. This value is still important to me, but I just don’t feel like I need to know everything or know a lot about life. I believe that if I follow God, then I will have all the wisdom I need. I do think wisdom is important for our world to keep excelling but I don’t believe that the world needs to have a mature understanding of life. Understanding life comes with time and in the end with the beliefs I have, I understand that I will go on to eternal life so I shouldn’t be caught up in this temporary world. All that being said, I
Many individuals have different aspects as to how life should be valued. Some individuals live life a day at a time while attempting to make the most as if their last breath was upcoming. In a Stanford Commencement in 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs quo...
I consider Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 to be one of the most effective speeches. He uses mechanics of speech to craft a well-rounded speech that is crowned by his use of rhetorical devices. Jobs gives relevant and fundamental knowledge of his life and experiences with his rhetorical approach. In his speech to the Stanford’s graduation class, he tells different stories of love, loss, discovery and difficulty he faced in his life to encourage new graduates as they continue to mature in life. He encourages students to pursue their dreams and not be discouraged by failures they might experience in life.
"We need to teach our children--by example--not to be lazy, to do their homework, to pay attention to detail, to take care and pride in work, to be reliable, and not to wobble and jerk through life. Each of us must take the initiative to create our opportunities, not waiting around for favors. We must not assume a door is closed but must push on it. We must not assume if it was closed yesterday that it's closed today."
From a young age my parents enforced right from wrong, and taught me proper adequate, such as, treat others the way you would like to be treated, as well as holding doors for others. Also, spending a lot of time with my friends growing up I learned how to share, make compromises, and proper communication skills. Additionally, growing up in my hometown Hillsborough, New Jersey, I have met lots of different individuals and have shown me how to behave and dress when outside of my home. Seeing how people around me to behave as well as my life experiences have helped shaped me into the individual I am, and has helped me figure out what kind of behavior I find acceptable in
Each person needs to learn to respect, have integrity and be unique in their own way. One will learn that through struggle and a lot of effort to overcome different situations. I think that like me the world needs a balance where some need to be more than others, for example some people need to be kinder in contrast to cruelty to learn from each other to either be a better person or stay the same. This world needs people who are open to accept changes to change themselves and how they live, because for this world to be a more healthy and happy place we need to start changes within our own.