Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Archieving your childhood dreams – Sep 18, 2007

水自流 — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:29:06 +0000

在浏览VOA的邮件列表中时不经意发现一条关于Randy Pausch的新闻，其实是给标题中的“最后一堂讲座”给吸引住。前天(July 25, 2008)他因胰腺癌并发症去世，早在2006年他已经知道自己时日不多。一个人的乐观精神是天生还是后天培养的？

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Archieving your childhood dreams

transcript: http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/Randy/pauschlastlecturetranscript.pdf

… … But, you know, it certainly would have been reasonable for me to leave 48 hours after that sabbatical, but it wouldn’t have been the right thing to do, and when you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great man who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is the listening to it.

Anybody can get chewed out. It’s the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the real reason is… We’ve all heard that. When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.

Show gratitude. When I got tenure I took all of my research team down to Disneyworld for a week. And one of the other professors at Virginia said, how can you do that? I said these people just
busted their ass and got me the best job in the world for life. How could I not do that?

Don’t complain. Just work harder. [shows slide of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league
baseball player] That’s a picture of Jackie Robinson. It was in his contract not to complain, even
when the fans spit on him.

Be good at something, it makes you valuable.

Work hard. I got tenure a year early as Steve mentioned. Junior faculty members used to say to me, wow, you got tenure early. What’s your secret? I said, it’s pretty simple. Call my any Friday night in my office at ten o’clock and I’ll tell you.

Find the best in everybody. One of the things that Jon Snoddy as I said told me, is that you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

So today’s talk was about my childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others, and some lessons
learned. But did you figure out the head fake? [dramatic pause] It’s not about how to achieve your
dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care
of itself. The dreams will come to you.

Have you figured out the second head fake? The talk’s not for you, it’s for my kids. Thank you all,
good night.

下载（附带字幕）：http://www.myoops.org/cocw/independent/

还有其它的资料集合：
Randy Pausch关于时间管理的演讲：http://www.quhuashuai.com/2007/12/randy-pausch-time-management-lecture/
& http://www.quhuashuai.com/2008/01/randy-pausch-time-management-lecture-transcript/
說好了這一刻不掉眼淚……Randy Pausch的最後一堂課：http://blogs.myoops.org/lucifer.php/2007/11/08/randypausch

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