Summary Of The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

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In the inspirational video, “The Last Lecture” Randy Pausch tells us about his life story and how to live it to the fullest. He gives some great advice throughout the video, and what I took away from the video is that good advice looks at challenges and faces them never afraid. Randy Pausch tells a ton about how he has limited time to live and he gives examples on how he is going to live the rest of his life to the fullest. Towards the end of the video and his speech he mentions “Brick walls are in our way for a reason.” When he says this it could be interpreted in many different ways. I took it as an act of motivation and to face the metaphorical brick walls in our life and overcome them and learn from them. It relates to the theme

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