The Last Lecture Chapter three

Chapter three is the start of Randy Pausch's final lecture. For the assignments we are given we are asked to pick three important ideas or statements from the chapter and discuss them. I find that near impossible to accomplish. Randy Pausch gives the reader so much information and adivce in one chapter that sifting through and only picking three just doens't seem reasonable. He is a man dying of Pancreatic Cancer and yet if you didn't know that about him you never would know. He doesn't let effect who he is or what he does. He doesn't ask for your sympthay or condolences, he just lives. He lets his audience know right away what is what. He shows photos of his CT scans and he also shows the photo of the home he and his wife had just bought so she would be closer to her famliy when Randy inevitably passed away. He is the perfect example of living your life to the fullest. After he clears up the "elephant in the room" he just continues on like it is a normal day teaching a normal class. I think if i only got one thing form this chapter it would be this, if everyone lived their lives like Randy Pausch, the world would be a more interesting, imaginitve, and all around non-self loathing place to be.

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture is the story about his last few months living with Cancer and about his last lecture that he gives at Carnegie Mellon. The thing about Pausch is that even though he has months to live and he knows that he is leaving behind a wife and three young children...his story is completely upbeat and looks to the brighter side of things. This is a man that has completed his list of childhood dreams and lived the life he wanted to live. This story is inspirational in the fact that Randy becoms a role model for families suffering from the effects of cancer on a loved one and a role model for not only his students but all students who read his story.