Carolina Yanez
Reaction Paper
10/17/2011
Time Management In Randy Pausch’s lecture he states about time management is that time is what everyone needs. He starts off by saying that time is money, it’s always good to turn money into time; for example when you need to cut your grass, you can pay someone to do it. Right there you just gave yourself some free time. Randy also says in his lecture that being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well; managing your time well makes you successful. It’s always important to do the right things, not the wrong thing beautiful. Randy, then starts to also state the life advices; planning, to do list, and hard management time ( what we need). What I did like about what Randy Pausch stated was that when he started to state the life advices he explained what we should do. Planning is always good, it’s good to always plan each day, each week, and each semester. To do list is as well good to do; Randy explained that breaking things down into small steps helps a lot. As well do the ugliest things first. The hard management time is what we mostly need. We need our creative time, we need to find our lonely time where we can just relax and do something we like. What I mostly liked about what Randy Pausch said was when he stated Alf Weaver, it was what Alf tought him, “Specific thing to do, Specific date/time, and Specific penalty or reward for them.” It’s the most easiest way to manage time for others. I can relate to anything that Randy Pausch stated. When he talked about procrastination, that was when i really did relate to it. He started to say why we did it, he said we did it because we were scared of failing and doing bad, that is one thing I always do. Another thing that he stated which I relate to was when he explained what to do when you have gaps during your classes. Randy said; “ When you have gaps during your classes; it would be good to create a false class so that you actually get things