On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch gave a lecture at Carnegie Mellon titled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. Despite being diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer, Randy gave an amazingly upbeat and inspiring lecture. He described his childhood dreams including being in zero gravity and playing in the NFL, and then proceeds to describe how he achieved all of them. Sadly, Randy died on July 25, 2008 at the age of 47 of pancreatic cancer.
Watch the one hour and 16 minute long lecture on youtube, or visit the Last Lecture website.
The lecture was so popular that it is now available both as a book
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