Achieving your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch is an amazing and inspiring person. He has spent his life dreaming, working to achieve those dreams, and aspiring others to do as well. He states in the beginning of his clip that he has always been a dreamer. From wanting to be in the NFL to experiencing zero gravity to wanting to become an Imagineer for Walt Disney, he was determined to excel. He spends a lot of time talking about how he achieved most of his dreams. Through determination and persistence, he was able to experience the zero-gravity. Although, he didn't make it quite to the NFL he spent years playing football and learning what it meant to be a team. This values would later expand his horizon to new heights earning him a job with the Disney Imagineer team.



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Once he achieved his own dreams, he wanted to help others achieve them as well so what better way to do that than become a college professor. He spent his years teaching not only how to do things but also the skills you need to do them. Any teacher can babble on for hours about how to work algebra equations or explain punctuations but it takes someone special to tell you that you need discipline and good work ethic if you fully understand and truly learn. Randy always told his students that they could do better even if what they did do was not short of amazing.



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Towards the end of Randy's video, Achieving your Childhood Dreams, he stated the lessons he had learned and thanked all the mentors that made it happen. I believe the most powerful lesson is when one of his professors told him that he needed to get a doctorate degree in education because he would make a perfect salesman and what not better than to sell education. Wow. I never knew how much of a prestigious position a teacher had until that statement.

Overall, I would rate this video a five out of five. He was an excellent speaker with great organizational skills. He was very inspirational throughout the whole video and I think that everyone needs to take his ideas to heart and live them on a daily basis.


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