Blog Assignment #7

This video was absolutely impressive. Randy Pausch is a man truly high on life and everything it entails. If you don't feel inspired by this speech, something is seriously wrong with you.
Dr. Pausch is a professor who, at the time of giving this lecture, had recently been given 3-6 months to live due to 10 tumors found on his kidneys. The outline of this lecture consisted of three main points:
1. His childhood dreams (and how he accomplished them in one way or another)
2. Enabling the dreams of others
3. How you can achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others
Dr. Pausch made the most of his life in the biggest way possible. No matter how hard it was or how long it took, he accomplished whatever goal he had set in his mind. (I won't go into too much detail about what he has accomplished because I hope you'll watch the video...nevermind how long it is).
The teaching techniques that Dr. Pausch used as his time as professor remind me a lot the techniques of our instructor, Dr. Strange. He was against textbooks, as is Dr. Strange, and believed that students learned more by doing things themselves and learning along the way. I also thought that Dr. Pausch was an incredible speaker. His lecture was over an hour long, yet it went by rather quickly. Everything he presented had a purpose. There were no useless facts or rambling on a particular subject.
Dr. Pausch lived the life he had dreamed of. He had many influential people help him along the way. He believed in karma and the idea that if you treat people nicely and show them respect, good things will eventually happen to you. He deserved every good thing that happened to him and it was a loss, in my opinion, to lose someone with such a great spirit about teaching and educating people about something you're so passionate about.