Randy Pausch Reprised Reflection

This week’s discussion was very touching. I must have watched “ The last lecture Reprised “ by Dr. Randy Pausch 3 or four times. I paused it several times because I became so emotional at one point of the lecture. The lecture has made me look at my Master’s in a different way. Like most, I did not find much that moved me about the reading as I did about the lecture. However there were some points that could validate a lot of what Dr. Pausch spoke about.

Colors seemed more vibrant and alive. We had a powerful desire to turn everything around us into a game, to play with circumstances.

Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible and receptive
Randy made a statement, “Don’t choose to be a object of pity.” - Randy Pausch - I believe that goes hand and hand with what Greene was saying in his passage, having a powerful desire to turn everything around us into a game to play with circumstances. Randy was much like that, instead of feeling sorry for himself he wanted to make the best out of his last days on earth with his kids. No matter his circumstances, he continued life as though he had a full life to
If we learn to handle criticism well, it can strengthen us and help us become aware of flaws in our work. Praise generally does harm. Ever so slowly, the emphasis shifts from the joy of the creative process to the love of attention and to our ever-inflating ego. Without realizing it, we alter and shape our work to attract the praise that we crave. We fail to understand the element of luck that always goes into success—we often depend on being in the right place at the right time. Instead, we come to think that our brilliance has naturally drawn our success and attention, as if it were indeed fated. Once the ego inflates it will only come back to earth through some jarring failure, which will equally scar us. To avoid this fate, you must have some