The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch and his Last Lecture

Randy Pausch and his Last Lecture

I have taught at the college level for nearly two decades and have loved the experience of teaching. In addition, I have spent almost that much time listening to professors lecturing while going to college, graduate school, and post-graduate school. Never have I given nor heard a more moving and honest lecture in all those years than the one given by Dr. Randy Pausch as his Last Lecture. I have watched that video many times.

Mike Schmitt, who is a friend of mine, gave me the link to that video. Part of the reason was that he saw some similarities between Pausch and me.

One of the similarities that I discovered while watching Pausch's Last Lecture was that we have both danced with death. He had pancreatic cancer, and I had prostate cancer. However, while my cancer was treated and I am fine, he was not as fortunate. Nevertheless, Pausch was a man who truly understood life, because he understood that he would die within several months of his lecture.

If you have not danced with death and learned the lesson of truly living, please set aside the time to watch this video. It will change your life. Trust me.

There are several additional similarities between us. The critically important one is that both of us love our children. However, I also have three grandchildren. Sadly, his children were too young to remember him before he died. Another comparison is that Pausch and I both grew up in Presbyterian families. Finally, we both lived in Pittsburgh and loved the Pittsburgh Steelers. This photo is of Pausch after he caught a pass during a Steelers practice.

Pausch practicing as a wide receiver

Pausch practicing as a wide receiver




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The Little Wooden Box thumbnail The Little Wooden Box An Updated Pandora's Box
Collecting Coins thumbnail Collecting Coins A Tradition Continues
A Great Dancer with Death thumbnail A Great Dancer with Death A Sobering Experience
Putting the Pieces Together thumbnail Putting the Pieces Together The Joy of Coming of Age
The Tulip Pitcher thumbnail The Tulip Pitcher A Picture of Springtime
The Felt Picture thumbnail The Felt Picture A Picture of Hopefulness
A Second Look at Life thumbnail A Second Look at Life Toward the End of Life
From Whence Does the Spark Come? thumbnail From Whence Does the Spark Come? The Creative Act of Pondering
The Value of Pain thumbnail The Value of Pain Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo
A Man with a Mission... thumbnail A Man with a Mission... Sinking a German U-boat
Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: thumbnail Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: Elizabeth and Rosa
The Pied Piper of Hamelin thumbnail The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Strange Tale
Dinner with GiGi thumbnail Dinner with GiGi The Socratic Method of an Older Woman
What Makes Me Tick thumbnail What Makes Me Tick Finally, an Explanation
What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago, thumbnail What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago, Which I Finally Fully Understand
Alan Seeger thumbnail Alan Seeger And His Dance with Death
What I Learned About Life... thumbnail What I Learned About Life... From Facing Down the Dragon
Wading Through the Water of Life thumbnail Wading Through the Water of Life Advice by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Career Opportunity... thumbnail Career Opportunity... Being a Gladiator
The Benefit of Problems thumbnail The Benefit of Problems Or the Only Means to Success
Cancer and Crabs thumbnail Cancer and Crabs Strange History that They Both Share
Milky Way and Andromeda's Dance with Death thumbnail Milky Way and Andromeda's Dance with Death Parallels Our Dances with Death
Slaughterhouse-Five thumbnail Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut's Dance with Death
 thumbnail Dancing with Death Allows You to Live
It Has Been Seven Years Since I Fell... thumbnail It Has Been Seven Years Since I Fell... And Cracked My Head
It Is About How You Lead Your Life thumbnail It Is About How You Lead Your Life Start With Refining Words
Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens thumbnail Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens How to Avoid the Ghosts
It is a Choice between Excitement and Desperation. thumbnail It is a Choice between Excitement and Desperation. Choose Wisely
Nepal Then thumbnail Nepal Then And Now
The Value of Writing thumbnail The Value of Writing It Forces You To Remember
We Get Old Too Soon... thumbnail "We Get Old Too Soon... And Wise Too Late"
Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today thumbnail Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today How Has America Changed?
Fertilizing Daffodils thumbnail Fertilizing Daffodils But in the Meantime....
How Do We Learn? thumbnail How Do We Learn? The Lessons in Learning
Live as if You Were to Die Tomorrow thumbnail "Live as if You Were to Die Tomorrow." "Learn as if You Were to Live Forever."
Lead Death as You Dance with Death thumbnail Lead Death as You Dance with Death It Will Change Your Life
A Choice between Tigger or Eeyore thumbnail A Choice between Tigger or Eeyore Choose Wisely
Some People Feel the Rain thumbnail Some People Feel the Rain Others Just Get Wet.
The Value of Walls thumbnail The Value of Walls Brick Walls Prove Your Desire.
Experience thumbnail Experience Redefining the Word
My Head Fake thumbnail My Head Fake During My Last Lecture