Blog Assignment 7

     For this blog I watched "Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch only had a few months of life left at the time of this lecture due to cancer. He was a professor at MIT. Throughout the whole lecture he never seemed to let the short amount of time he had left depress him or way him down at all. He seemed to be in perfect health, and was able to do a wonderful job motivating the audience.
     One of the main points of this lecture was his childhood dreams and what he was able to do to achieve them. A very important part of this was being able to enable the dreams of others. His lecture also talked about lessons he learned and wisdom that we could take from them. He had a fortunate childhood and he was a very happy child and he was inspired by many of the current events, such as being in zero gravity.
     One inspiring quote from his lecture was "Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things." He also talked about how badly he wanted to play football. He was one of the smallest people on the team, and talked about how much his coaches inspired him. One of the main things he instilled on him was focusing on the fundamentals. He also talked about the values of enthusiasm and criticism. Even though he didn't make it to NFL, he still learned many valuable lessons.
        Another inspiring quote from his lecture came from Jon Snoody and was "Wait, and people will surprise you". One of his childhood dreams that he was able to accomplish was working for Disney. This lecture was very inspiring and I was very impressed with his wonderful outlook in life and his ability to live on through his work and the many lives he has touched.