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6.07.2008

Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates

Randy Pausch is such an amazing and inspiring person. If you haven't seen his original video titled "The Last Lecture", please watch it. It was originally made for a group of his cohorts that were unable to attend a lecture he gave. But, as what always seems to happen, someone found it on YouTube. And the rest is history. What did we ever do before YouTube?

Randy is a relatively young man, not yet 50 years old, who was told last summer that he has pancreatic cancer and it's terminable. Since that time, he gave a lecture about living that has inspired millions of people and has led to a book, "The Last Lecture". And now this graduation speech at Carnegie Mellon. Each time I watch this man talk it sends chills throughout my body and I realize how much more I need to do in my life. It comforts me to know that I, too, have found a lot of the passion that he found. And that feels really good.

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