Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dream

ok i may be a little late but this is for Randy Pausch:

"Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007."

So this reminded me of that little advertisement that flooded the bus stops before i left: this black and white poster that was talking about the last things to do before you die. But it kind of had a gloomy shadow of deathly hollows. It was something about dying and people. Death in fact.

But Randy Pausch delivers this lecture with 3 months left to live (he's still alive today though) with so much passion and humor and most importantly, a legacy and many lessons left behind for humankind.

I wish one day I could turn around when i am 40-50 and list out 5 things I learned in life and the string of things achieved, that can mirror the magnitude of what Randy achieved. Most importantly, how he sought to achieve things he dreamt of when he was a child. And unlike most people, he made them come through.

He achieved zero gravity
He's as comfortable on the football field as an NFL player
He worked as a day-a-week consultant at Disney Imagineer
He met Captain Kirk

Inspiration 101.