The "last lesson" is the last lesson that randy pausch gave to the university on September 18, 2007, after learning that his pancreatic cancer had metastasized and the doctor judged that he only had 3-6 months to live. He is humorous in class. Talking about dreams and the fun of life, honesty, integrity, gratitude and never giving up, the countless gray brick walls of his life, grasping every minute of his life, will never lose the curiosity of children.
In his "last lesson", he showed his CT film to more than 500 students and colleagues present, telling them that the tumor was attacking his pancreas and his life would end in a few months. But in this class, he doesn't talk about cancer or death, because death does not constitute his "uniqueness"; He doesn't talk about his wife and three young children, because he can't talk about them without tears; He also doesn't talk about soul and religion. He talked about his childhood dreams, from winning a huge animal doll at a carnival, experiencing weightlessness, participating in NFL competitions, being Captain Cook in Star Trek, writing entries for the Encyclopedia Britannica, and designing roller coasters at Disneyland. From the most serious ideals to the most whimsical ideas, these dreams defined his 46-year life.
In just 70 minutes, he talked about dreams, the joy of life, honesty, integrity, gratitude, never giving up, countless gray brick walls in his life (these walls are not to stop him, but to tell him how much he yearns for the world behind the walls), and to seize every minute of life and never lose his child's curiosity ... These are the most important things in his life.
"I am dying, but I am very happy. I will always do this every day. "
On the podium, he looked so young, healthy, enthusiastic and humorous. He looks invincible. Laughter and tears on and off the stage, just like the realistic version of Dead Poets Society, are his way of saying goodbye to this world. After that, he plans to live in a humble abode at home and spend the rest of his life peacefully with his family. Originally, this was the end of his story. However, in the audience that day, one of his alumni at Carnegie Mellon University, Jeffrey Zaslo, was a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. That day, he drove 300 miles to Pittsburgh to listen to Randy's lecture and was completely moved. The next day, he introduced the last lesson in his column, calling it a once-in-a-lifetime lesson, and posted a video clip of the lecture on the website of The Wall Street Journal.
Soon, the complete video of the "last lesson" appeared on YouTube and circulated wildly among websites, and thousands of people were moved to tears. He is a dying man, but the whole world is getting the passion and energy of life from him and rethinking the meaning of life. Some people no longer feel sorry for themselves, some people give up the idea of suicide, and people who are facing death like him cheer up and try to find the meaning of life again. As he said in the lecture, "I live as if I were going to die soon;" But at the same time, I'm still alive, as if I were still alive. "
When I saw this video, I was tossing and turning in the cancer ward of the hospital, witnessing countless riddled souls and bodies. The patient's expression is always gloomy and desperate. A person staring at the ceiling, speechless, they are very angry, but because there is no one to blame, they are angry with themselves and their relatives around them. Cancer is more destructive to the mind than to the body. Neither science, God nor good doctors can calm their fear of death. In the face of death, people's needs and desires become extremely simple, just want to live, every day is a day. But what is the meaning of living? Among them, there are people who don't look down on life and death, but that is the helplessness of everything, and often no one has the heart to pursue the meaning of life.
In an interview, Randy said that he had no intention of telling the world how to live. His only real audience was three people-his three children, Dylan, 6, Logan, 3, and Chloe, 2. They are still so young, but they can't grow up under his protection and company. This is his greatest pain. How he wishes to condense what he should say and do for them in the next 30 years into half a year. This kind of pain and longing is so strong that if he were a painter, he would paint it; If he were a musician, he would compose a piece of music; But he is a professor and can only choose to give lectures. Therefore, this last lesson was not even addressed to 400 students and colleagues. He just put himself in a bottle with it. One day he will be washed to the shore and picked up by his children. At that time, they will understand a father's mind.
"Today's speech is not about how to realize your dreams, but how to lead your life. If you guide your life correctly, what goes around comes around will bring you everything you deserve. Dreams will come to you. " In the last paragraph of the last lesson, his voice choked and he could hardly speak. He is probably imagining how Dylan, Logan and Chloe will feel when they see this video and hear their father's words in a few years.
After the last lesson, he left Pittsburgh with his family and moved to Virginia, because it was closer to his wife's house and she could get more emotional support. Cancer hasn't changed his temperament. He is still cheerful, optimistic and humorous, and likes to make jokes about cancer. He spends all his time with his wife and children. He took his son swimming with dolphins, so that he would never forget it. He wrote different life advice to every child, such as "If I can only give you three words of advice, I will say,' Tell the truth'". If you can add a restriction, it is' (always). His message to his 2-year-old daughter Chloe was, "If a man likes you in the future, don't worry about what he said, just look at what he did." . She won't remember her father when she grows up, but he wants her to know that his father is the first man who loves her in the world.
He does exercise by cycling in the community every day 1 hour. Only in this 1 hour can he be away from the children. He talked on the phone with Jeffrey Chaslow of the Wall Street Journal on his bicycle, talking about his lectures, life, dreams and family, all of which were arranged by Jeffrey. After 53 hours of conversation, they published a book called "The Last Lesson", which quickly reached the bestseller list of The New York Times Book Review and was translated into more than 30 languages.
At the beginning of the book, he wrote, "I have an engineering problem."
As a first-class scholar in the field of virtual reality and the designer of the roller coaster in Disneyland, randy pausch is actually a veritable dream engineer, so he treats the impending death as an engineer-engineering is not about a perfect scheme, but how to do the best with limited resources. As he said in the last lesson, "we can't change the cards in our hands, but we can decide how to play them."
His life is running out, and he seeks all possible treatments to buy himself more time. He not only wants to spend every day happily with his family, but also prepares for their future life without him. He said, "Bad luck will soon push my family off the cliff. I can't catch them, which breaks my heart, but at least I have time to weave a safety net for them."
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy prolonged his life, which also led to heart congestion and renal failure. He became weaker and weaker, but he was still alive after six months. On March 13, 2008, he appeared at the hearing of the US Congress. Chemotherapy made his face swollen, but his hair didn't fall off and he still didn't look like a patient. Speaking on behalf of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Organization (Pancan), he asked Congress to allocate 654.38+0.7 billion dollars to find a cure for pancreatic cancer. There has been no medical progress in pancreatic cancer in the past 30 years. People know nothing about the cause of this disease, and there is no way to prevent pancreatic cancer. Two thirds of the patients are over 70 years old, while he is only 46 years old. He never smokes or drinks, exercises every day and has a reasonable diet. He took out his family photo, pointed to his wife and said, "This is my widow. This is a word you won't get used to. There are not many diseases in this world. If you get them, you will know that you will die. "
In 2007, it was named "Person of the Year" by ABC News Network and 100 people who influenced the world by Time magazine. Pittsburgh, where Carnegie Mellon University is located, designated 165438+ 10 as "randy pausch Day". He received a letter from Bush thanking him for raising the souls of millions of Americans. "Your efforts reflect the essence of the American soul." .
Randy had only one childhood dream that didn't come true-he didn't become a professional football player. After listening to his speech, the coach of Pittsburgh professional football team specially invited him to participate in team training to help him realize his last unfinished childhood dream.
A netizen put it well: "He didn't choose to die at the age of 47, but he really came back." The speech is divided into three parts:
1. Bosch's own childhood dreams and how he realized them one by one;
Experience zero gravity
Participate in NFL games
Write encyclopedia entries (especially Wikipedia)
Become Captain Kirk in Star Trek.
Win plush toys in the playground
Become an engineer in Disney's fantasy project.
2. How does Bosch help others realize their dreams and feel happy by offering the course "Building a Virtual World", establishing an entertainment technology center and developing Alice software?
3. Life experience about life attitude, study and teamwork.
During the speech, Bosch was humorous, turned the philosophy of life into simple examples, and even performed push-ups for the audience on the stage.
After Bosch's speech, siebert announced that Electronic Arts and Carnegie Mellon University would set up Bosch Memorial Scholarships for women studying computer science to commemorate Bosch's support for women studying computer science and engineering.
Jared Cohen, president of Carnegie Mellon University, highly praised Bosch's personality, saying that he has made outstanding contributions to the school and education, and announced that the school will build a bridge named after Bosch between the computer science department and the art center to commemorate Bosch's contribution to connecting computer science and art design. Andy Van Dan, Bosch's mentor at Brown University, also gave a speech, praising Bosch's courage and extraordinary leadership in fighting cancer, calling him a model. The famous saying of the last lesson:
1. What Indira didn't tell you was that this series of lectures used to be called "the last lecture". If you make your last speech before you die, what will you say? I thought, well, I can match this number, but they changed the name (Journey Series Speech).
What Indira didn't tell you was that this series of lectures was once called the last lesson. If you had your last speech before you died, what would it be? I think, damn it, I finally nailed the venue and they changed their name.
We can't change it, we just need to decide how to deal with it. We can't change the cards in our hands, but we can adjust how to play them.
We can't change it, we just need to decide how to deal with it. We can't change the cards we get, only how we play them.
When you screw up, but no one wants to blame you, it means they give up on you, which is a very bad thing.
When you screw up, no one says anything to you, which means they give up.
Critics tell you that they still care about you and love you.
Your tears tell you that they still love you and care about you.
Experience is learned when you can't get what you want.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
6. Remember, there must be a reason to stop your obstacles! This wall is not to stop us, it gives us an opportunity to show how much we want to achieve this goal. This wall is to stop those who are not eager enough. They exist to stop those who are not enthusiastic enough.
Remember, brick walls exist for a reason Brick walls are not meant to keep us out. Brick walls exist to give us a chance to show how much we want something. Because brick walls exist to stop those who don't want enough. They came to stop the others.
Some obstacles are flesh and blood.
Some brick walls are made of meat.
I don't know how to live an unhappy life. I am dying, but I am still very happy. In the days to come, I will continue to live happily every day, because this is the only way I know.
9. Hill said, "It took me a long time to finally understand that when men are fascinated by you, the logic is actually very simple. Ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do. It's as simple as that, so easy. "
10. How do you get people to help you? You can't do everything by yourself, you must have someone to help you.
1 1. I believe that good is rewarded with good, and good with good. If you want others to help you, you must tell the truth and be sincere.
12. Good people and sincere people, I would rather choose sincerity, because good people are short-term and sincerity is long-term.
13. Apologize if you screw up and focus on others, not yourself.
14. The real difficulty is the willingness to listen. Anyone can get lost by justifying a fault. Only a few people will say, "Oh, my God, you are right!" . Most people will say, "Wait, there's a reason. . . . "。
15. When people give you feedback, please cherish it, make good use of it and be deeply grateful.
16. Specialization makes you more valuable. To work hard and make an appointment for life in advance, the new teacher often asks me, "Wow! What's your secret? " It's simple. Call my office on Friday night 10, and I'll tell you.
17. One thing john snow Di told me was: "Sometimes you have to wait long enough, maybe a few years, but people will eventually show their kindness. Please be patient, no matter how long it takes. "
18. There are no real villains in this world. Everyone has a good side. As long as you wait patiently, you will see.
19. Be ready at any time. Luck is actually just a proper preparation for the opportunity. Be prepared: Luck is indeed the combination of preparation and opportunity.
20. If you can live a good life, life will find the answer for you and your dream will come true. If you live in the right way, fate will take care of itself and your dreams will come to you. )
2 1. Did you see the second hidden truth? This speech is not for you, but for my children.
22. Remember the obstacles used to prove our persistence? It exists to distinguish us from those who don't really want to fulfill their childhood dreams.
23. If you do it right, good things will happen naturally.
Randy: Do you know what I really want to say in this speech? ) It's not about how to realize your dreams. It's about how to live a good life.