Blog Post 7

This video was amazing!  Randy Pausch's lecture begins with him telling us about some of his childhood dreams and what he learned from those dreams whether or not he was able to acheive them.  Each of his childhood dreams taught him something. 
I really liked how he talked about "head fake learning."  He used the example of playing football, when you sign a child up to play football, you don't really care about them learning to play football, you want them to learn other more important things, such as teamwork, sportsmanship, and perserverence.  To me this is a great teaching method to use in a classroom, allow students to do an activity that is fun but have it teach them something more important through the process of it. 
Randy also talked about how you have to keep on trying even if you encounter obstacles along the way.  He discusses this by using the image of a brick wall and he tells the listeners that brick walls are there for us to prove how badly we want something, not to stop us.  They only stop those that don't want it bad enough.  This is a great lesson.  Keep on trying no matter how many times you get stopped along the way.
He also talked about how as a person you should try to find the best in everyone.  No matter how mad, annoying, or stupid a person is, you should always try to find and focus on what makes them a great person.  He also says the if you wait long enough people will surprise and impress you.  I think that this is such a great point to make because I think as humans we often make judgements about someone before we really know who they are and if you just wait a little bit longer you might find that they are really not that bad of a person.
Towards the end of his talk he says one thing that I really believe and try really hard to always remember.  He said "when you do the right things, good things always happen.  This is extremely important for us to remember, when you do what is right you will always come out on top eventually.
He also tells us to always listen to feedback and cherish and use it.  Another thing that he says is always be prepared, luck is where preparation meets opportunity!  I loved this lecture and was able to gain so much from it about life.  Randy Pausch was a man that lived his life to the fullest and was not going to let his illness get in the way.  I also love the way he used "head fakes" when giving this lecture.  He talked about always going after childhood dreams, helping others achieve their childhood dreams, and little lessons that he had learned in his life, but that was not what the lecture was about.  His lecture was about how to live your life, but he threw in another head fake because it was not for us...it was for his three children.