The Last Lecture Randy Pausch Reflection

Reflection of Randy Pauschs The Last Lecture Pennsylvania submit University Berks Campus The Last Lecture began as a swell-bye savoir-faire, made by Randy Pausch, a 47 year old professor diagnosed with entrepot r pop out outcer. His speech at Carnegie Melon University became an Internet phenomenon. It has also been published as a book. I sincerely thoroughly enjoyed his Last Lecture speech. He had a lot of good smattering points and brought up virtu all in ally unfermented vistas, or ways of looking at invigoration situations that got me recalling. He talked a lot ab step up his dreams when he was a child and was real jocular and sacred by dint of let out his speech.He also had a lot of quotes that I real enjoyed and they argon what I pauperism to focus on. When you screw up and no one yells at you round it then they brace given up on you. They yell at you because they circumspection. This is something that applies to my spirit. I raise up had presumably som e of the worst years of my bread and only whenter my junior and senior year of towering school through entering college. I always desired my p arnts never tacit where I was coming from, and if I did some(prenominal)thing slightly wrong, they would blow the situation out of proportion.This is non exactly the same thing, because I would not say that I contain screwed up in my actions, provided to a greater extent(prenominal), I have through things that my parents disagreed with. My parents would yell at me for reasons that I did not understand, and things that my friends parents would never yell at them for. I go that at that place are individual differences between families and their take beliefs, however at the time, I hated my parents. We would abbreviate into the pettiest fights, and my parents never knew how frequently I did not do to try and please them. I still destinyed to run away and leave and or find a way out.These were slenderly dark times for me because my relationship with my parents was entirely passing terrible. Our arguments took an emotional toll on me, and it affected all of my relationships outside of my family and my school assignment anything that was important to me was not any much. All this being said, now that I have been in college I have realized that my parents do really care around me and when they ever got angry or would not let me do something, I know now that it was out of sock and parental instinct to protect their child and have my best interests in mind.They also were so strict and disciplinary with me because they notwithstanding indirect requested a better life for me than they had, and they did not involve for me to screw up. I really appraise all that my parents have done for me to have the life I had, and I am so lucky to have parents who care about me and my early so such(prenominal). This ties bandaging into another thing Randy Pausch said, which was when you do something when you are you ng, it sticks with you. My parents are pretty conservative and raised me with strict discipline, placing all their furiousness on my academics.My protactinium would always nurse me sit at the dinner party t competent and do all of my home put to work before I could go play or do anything else. This is something that has stuck with me for a long while. I am not as good at still doing this, except what my dad made me do, helped contribute to my work ethic that would accomplish me good grades, organization, and good time management skills all throughout grade school. Also, wish Pauschs father, my dad taught me humility. I try to live my life as modestly as I possibly gouge, and I get the most delight out of the smallest things.Unthe give cares of Pauschs father though, my dad never let me endure and write on the ramparts, even though that never stopped me from doing it, but rather my dad still let me express my creativity in other ways that would not cause property damage. H aving a inventive outlet is such an important thing and I was glad I was able explore and let my imagination run. If anything, in todays society, creativity is something that is being under measured and sacrificed in the sake of making progress and conformist to an academic standard, where the arts and other areas of study are not looked as highly upon as studying science or business, for example.It also comes reduce to material goods and earnings when choosing a course of study. A statement that stuck out to me was that the great unwashed are more(prenominal)(prenominal) important than things. This is an idea that planms to have been internal for me. Since I was young, I always cared a lot about the the great unwashed in my life, and that has translated to how I am now. I value friendships so much. I believe that yes, you have your family and they should always be there and support you, but having friends creates such more stable foundation in the relationships that you have . You can make a lot of silver and buy whatever you want, but money does not equate happiness.I appreciate the people who are in my life and all the get it ons we have shared together, which I will continue to reminisce about and keep forever. Money or things could not give me all those experiences. Sometimes I tang alike(p) people are so driven by their need for a sense of achievement and wealth/power that they push people away and give up any take place of fabricateing their friendships and enjoying the fruits of life that you can plainly get through your interaction with people. These people adept end up alone, and that is something I do not want to do.Randy Pausch was very successful at being able to always put people before things. Experience is what you get when you didnt get what you want and brick walls are there to show how much people want something, we two of my most favorite quotes that came out of his speech. The more I reflected on these words, the more I thoug ht about how true they are. I never thought of experience in that way, but I evaluate that is what results from at least some of my experiences. I notion like I have great experiences, but they are times when I do get exactly what I wanted.No doubt though, some(prenominal) of the best experiences I have had were ones where things did not go exactly as planned but they ended up being just as great, if not more great, than they would have been if I had gotten my way. Another important thing about experience I think, is that you have to let yourself experience, and not hold yourself back. You could look at something that happened to you and complain and cry about it, but you could look at it from the perspective that you have gained knowledge for future events, and you only grow and learn from your experiences, either good or bad.I know that many times, I timbre like only bad things happen to me, and as much as I appreciate gaining experiences from them, it feels like I always hav e to the route of skill from my mistakes. I got into my first car accident on my way back home from FTCAP at Berks, and clearly that was not something I wanted. But I gained experience from it, and I guess it has made me become a more cautious driver. The other quote about brick walls really struck a nerve with me and that is why it was one of my favorites.I feel like I have come up against many brick walls in my life. Sometimes I cannot swing them down, but I guess that means that I did not want something enough. Physically, I know that there are those times where I am in a game, and I am just exhausted. When I feel like I cannot push anymore, something inside me, whether it be my want to be better than somebody else, or sense of competition and want to win, I find a whole source of energy and intensity that was not there before. Usually this allows me to overcome my fatigue and perform better.If I looked at every obstacle in my life as a brick wall that I would have to break dow n or overcome, I feel like I usually come up short and only make maybe a crack in the wall. I believe that when I am really passionate about something, I put literally everything I have into it and rely that it shows how badly I really, sincerely want something. Most of the time, I will admit, I get deter or frustrated easily. I want to be able to not let these walls stop me from achieving anything.So this is a quote I have up so I can see it general, and it is quite motivating to see that I have to put effort into my day to achieve anything. I found the part of his speech where he talked about working on Imagineering inspirational. This was something that was his dream, and once he finally achieved his dream, this forever changed his life. I am not sure if I have an ultimate dream of what I want to be, in the future, but I hope to be like Pausch and alter childhood dreams of others.I do not even know what it would be like to fulfill your own dream or the dreams of others, but I would love to be a part of something bigger than myself and help others. I am realizing that there are so many people out there who are less fortunate than I, and those people work so much harder to achieve their dreams. My parents could even be used as examples. Their dream was to leakage communism, and lead a better life for themselves and for their children. They worked extremely hard to build themselves up from nothing.I hope to someday have a dream that I want to achieve that badly. Pausch had pancreatic cancer, three kids, and did not want to be an object of pity even though he knew when his life would end. I envy that about him. He continued in his speech to talk about how to live and achieve your childhood dreams. I think that that was very motivational to us, especially as college students, because he is basically saying that we can be whatever we want to be and we should not let anything get in the way of our dreams.Pausch said that you should have a sense of playfulne ss and wonder which should never go away. I could not agree more. We are young, and should be curious and enjoy life. Often the flame of life seems to purblind until it blows out over time, but like Pausch I hope to be able to have as much recreation and fulfillment out of anything that I do. When I get out of school, and begin to work, I hope that I will be able to go to work everyday and be excited about it. I realized that I am basically living out a dream that I fit(p) out for myself, whether I knew it or not.It has taken a lot for me to get to where I am now, and I have worked for my dream for so many years, it has become one of the only things I know how to do and work towards. I guess this dream is become a child psychiatrist, or work with children and help them medically. His conclusion of the lecture gave me a lot to really just think about. Really, his entire speech conveyed that you should never underestimate the value of having fun. You should work and play well with other, tell the truth, and apologize.You should show your gratitude. And not to complain, just work harder. This is such a great way I think to look at life. Life is all about living, and living is having fun and enjoying yourself. That is the only reason for doing anything. I mean it is simple, but why would you want to put all your time and energy into doing anything you do not like? Even those things that are difficult can be made easier if you just look at the situation from a different and more burnished perspective. I know that I do not show my gratitude enough.I know that I am give thanksful, but sometimes a simple thank you does go a long way. I know that I do a lot for people and I do it because I want to, but those two words carry a lot of weight. I also know that I tend to complain a lot. His speech unimpeachably was motivational in the fact that so many people, like myself, can spend an excessive amount of time being ostracise and looking at everything as a long and arduous task, when life is all about just arduous to do the best you can and having an optimistic point of view.If you do not complain about things and just force yourself to get them done, you will be so much more satisfied with yourself and the work you courtly. He went on further to talking about how you should live your life. Pausch said that if you live properly, your dreams will come to you. I am skeptical of this, but maybe if I try to live more properly then things will all fall into place. I realized that I often know what I want, but I do not do anything to help me achieve what I want.Also there are times when I feel like I am trying my best to live properly and make the best of every situation, but sometimes, I just do not want to make myself feel better about myself or any situation I would be in, and I would just rather sulk and pity myself. Randy Pausch definitely had ego integrity as he entered the last stages of his life. His attitude and his approaching to facin g death was something very awe-inspiring. He is not afraid of death, and he feels as if he has lived a fulfilling life. Even though he is going his children and family behind, he knows that they will carry on and live life to its maximal otential because he has shown them how. As upsetting and devastating as it is to lose someone who is very close to you and has made such an impact in your life, I believe that his family will be able to handle his death and have a positive outlook on the future, even without Pauschs nominal head there, because he was so positive about his life and what he has contributed and done. I think as much as I would want to be optimistic or realistic about death and accept it, I think I would be more upset and more ego despair than Pausch was.Yes, death is a naturally occurring event and everyone dies. It is just somewhat unfair to me that certain people do not have the chance to live out their life. I also am just more afraid of when my life ends, I will not have accomplished everything that I wanted to, or made any difference in the world. Maybe someday, I will be able to give a Last Lecture speech that is just as motivational and inspirational as Randy Pausch. I also hope to get into the wit that Pausch talked about in his speechliving life, not worrying about death, having fun, and going after my dreams.