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Lightbulb Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 09-23-2007, 08:20 PM

I just posted a new article to my blog:

As I'm going through some videos to prepare for my upcoming Web 2.0 video copywriting workshop in Los Angeles, I stumbled upon this amazing video.
If you ever wanted to attend a "lecture of a lifetime," this would be it. With only 4-5 months left to live, this university professor gave his last lecture. It's probably the [...]

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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 09-23-2007, 10:24 PM

Mostly speechless but... Beautiful lecture

thanks for sharing
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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 09-24-2007, 11:13 PM

That was quite touching. I went to his homepage where he gives background on his illness (pancreatic cancer). He still seems to be posting.

I know his chances for survival are non-existent...but damn, I'd like to think that he still has a chance...
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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 09-25-2007, 12:48 PM

Wow, thanks Michel, I appreciated the link and loved the lecture. I'm glad I took the time to watch it all.

I liked a couple of Randy Pausch's quotes (I think I got them down right)... I love his attitude and his outlook:

"If you lead your life the right way the karma will take care of itself and the dreams will come to you."

and

"When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening."


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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 09-27-2007, 02:46 PM

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I know his chances for survival are non-existent..
This is true for every one of us...the only difference is he knows it and is living accordingly.


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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 06-03-2008, 05:23 PM

I just came to the forum and did search because I was just about to post about the same subject. Just thought that someone had done so before and I was right.

I just found out about this video and just finished watching it and what an attitude for a person with just months left to live. What a number of lessons we can learn form his attitude.

He just did a charge for the graduates May 18th.

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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 06-05-2008, 09:00 PM

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He just did a charge for the graduates May 18th.

-Ray
I had forgotten about this -- glad to see he's still alive and doing relatively well, and still fighting, 9 months later.


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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 06-06-2008, 08:51 AM

Randy Pausch update information...

http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html


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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 06-10-2008, 05:32 PM

Glad to see you've got this on here.

I put it up on my blog a few months back and I even taught a lot of what he said to my high school students.

I remember sitting there watching this and scribbling down so many notes.

Very inspiring.
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Default Re: Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture - 07-25-2008, 11:39 AM

Randy has passed on: 'Last Lecture' professor dies at 47 - CNN.com
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