Blog Post #7

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

This video was very interesting because it was talking about Randy's Childhood dreams. You may think that listening to someone talk about their childhood dreams is not worth to even listen to, but if you really think about it, childhood dreams can be a motivation to students who have always had a dream to become someone popular and they thought that they never could. I am going to discuss three of Randy's childhood dreams that has made him to become the person that he is today. In those childhood dreams their were people to correct him at times, which made him to become a hard worker.

The first childhood dream that Randy talked about was "Zero Gravity". Well, you can somewhat assume that it has something to do with space or a prototype of a space shuttle. Randy always wanted to float, not necessarily going into space to the moon. When he got older he was able to form a group and float in a space shuttle called "vomit comet". This particular dream came true because he kept believing in the things that he wanted to achieve.

Randy's second childhood dream was to be in the NFL, which is very typical for boys. Even though, he did not go to the NFL he went to the little league. While in the little league he had a coach who was really hard to deal with. Randy said that a guy was at his practice one day and said that coach is being really hard on you, Randy replied and said, "Yes". That guy told Randy when coach stops being hard on you when you have screwed up, then he has stopped caring about you. This particular saying should be a lifelong lesson to all teachers who really care about their students and they want them to excel. Randy said even though he did not go to the NFL he learned a valuable lesson.

The third childhood dream that Randy discussed in his video is to become an author of an encyclopedia.  Being an author to him would make him feel that he was on top of the world. This is a dream that many people think about, but they do not believe. Randy got a little older, but he never stopped dreaming the dream, and one day he was able to publish his first encyclopedia that was actually a virtual book. Randy went beyond his child dreams to accomplish the things that he has today. Dreaming the dream and believing is the key to achieving the dream.