Randy Pausch.
I watched this video last week after hearing of Pausch's death. I never heard of him before he passed away. But since his death, Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Randy Pausch has been everywhere. Nothing about his lecture is particularly profound. It is about getting your childhood dreams. But as a whole, his life, lessons, and story of his accepted fate is something I hope to never forget. If you have an hour and a half and crave some laughs and inspiration, watch his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon.
"My plan was this: As I spoke about childhood dreams, I'd ask everyone to close their eyes and rub their crayons in their fingers--to feel the texture, the paper, the wax. Then I'd have them bring their crayons up to their noses and take a good, long whiff. Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood, doesn't it? ...When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit."
2 comments:
Why did this man mispronounce crayon so badly? Not want to cast stones that a man who basically spoke his own eulogy, it just seems odd.
Bad grammar or maybe wrong words and last comment and maybe this one or courtesy of Google's voice recognition software which is kind of jacked up
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