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The Last Lecture - What Wisdom and Vision Would You Impart to the World If It Was Your Last Chance to Do So?"The Last Lecture" is a lecture series based partly on Native American cosmology, in which there is a saying, "It is a good day to die." What that means is that you should live your life as if everyday was your last day on earth. In so doing, you would then live your life to the fullest. To live your life to the fullest means to have a free mind, to see clearly and with vision. It also means to follow your dream, and live by your inner wisdom. It is a very spiritual way of living. It is also the entire meaning of this website: Free your mind There is a very inspiring lecture on these themes given by a man by the named of Randy Pausch. Randy is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also dying of pancreatic cancer. On September 18, 2007 he gave his "Last Public Lecture" at Carnegie Mellon Unversity. Entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," the talk was part of an ongoing series of Last Lectures by academics who were posed the question, "What wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" For Pausch, it truly was his last chance. He had spent his professional career building bridges between the sciences and arts, and understood the importance of the creative process for both artistic and scientific thinking - this was part of what he wanted to tell his audience. But he told them much more than just that. He told them to live their dreams, to free the mind and vision the world, a world of beauty, love and deep spiritual connections. Instead of describing anything else about his talk, it is best to let Pausch speak for himself. Below are three videos about his talk:
Video #1: A Trailer From an ABC Special With Randy Pausch and Diane Sawyer (4:41)
Video #2: The Wall Street Journal Discusses The Last Lecture (4:39)
Video #3: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Sept. 18, 2007 (76:26)
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