Blog Post #8 Randy Paunch

What can we Learn from Randy Pausch?

To become an educator, Mr. Pausch, discusses three topics that should pertain to your choice of career, your dreams, enabling the dreams of others and the lessons you learn.

First he discusses achieving your dreams. He explains that in order to achieve anything in life you have to be willing to go the distance. You should never give up. You are always looking for a way to live out these dreams.  The saying "anything is possible" lies within yourself.  He explains that enabling others to live out their dreams could as well help you live out yours.

In this theory as an educator, you should always be extending your mind on how helping others with only help you. During his lecture pertaining to enabling others to realize their potential, he states "giving chance to show them what it feels like to make others excited and happy" this gives your the an idea of how selfless Mr. Pausch truly was. Although, he was very wealthy, he gave to others, not only monetarily , but little parts of him.  In doing this, and watching his last lecture I feel a part of him will go with me in education.

Seeing his words about children or students rather and how they inspired him helps me to understand what it means to be a true inspiration to someone else.

Lessons Learned

Mr. Pausch is just a man who felt he could make a difference. But instead of discussing the differences he made, he chooses to discuss the ways others made a difference in his life. If we all look at the people in our lives the way Mr. Pausch did, we will be effective not only as educators but as humans.

Taking what Mr. Pausch did with his life; teaching, inspiring, and also learning from his students, has made my decision to be an educator more empowering than I could have ever imagined.

I hope that anyone who choses to become a teacher will watch the following videos.

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

Speech to Graduates