Wow! This could be one of the best talks I’ve ever heard. Randy Pausch is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. They run a lecture series entitled “The Last Lecture” where a professor imagines what he’d say if he only had one lecture left to give before he died. Randy Pausch was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer not long before giving this lecture.
He called the lecture “Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams”. It’s funny, it’s inspiring and it’s deeply moving. Here is the video of the lecture. It runs for just over an hour, so I urge you to sit down, relax and watch it through. The hour will fly past, I promise you. And you’ll be SO glad you took the time to watch it.
If you’ve been as impressed by this as I was, you can find out a lot more here.
Here’s a man who knows what it is to be a hero, not a zombie……..
Heroes Not Zombies 
I suspect Pausch would be the first to deny this, but this guy is an avatar, as in “An embodiment, as of a quality, concept, philosophy, or tradition; an archetype.” Since watching his lecture, I have felt more expansive in my own life. I’m very grateful to him for being able to put this lecture together in the first place, and then for actually delivering it. Thank you so much.
I so agree Vicky.
This really is one video I wish EVERYONE would watch!
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