Eleventh Post

Professor Pausch is a very inspiring speaker and teacher. When he starts out his lecture he speaks about his childhood dreams and how he managed to achieve them. He started with this saying that in teaching we have to allow the student to achieve their goals. He talked about how no matter how many "brick walls" so to speak you come across, if you truly want something they will not stand in your way. He truly believes that anything is possible if its something you truly want.

Also in the lecture he lays down what he will not talk about instead of things he will talk about. He so relaxed in his speaking which makes him all that more personable. He brings in his life lessons and things he achieved and how he made them work no matter what. He is a go- getter kind of guy and I truly believe that he would want students to be that way as well. The fact that he wanted to be a NFL player really shocked me and the way he achieved that goal in such a way amazed me. He is truly a great speaker.

During the lecture he did not say that all his success was just from his doing. He made sure to speak about anyone who helped him along the way. And one such part of the lecture he spoke of a dean he went to in order to get permission to work with Disney and the dean told him no. But yet another dean told him he did not have all the information and that he would need more. He was trying to show that the way to say things to people and really affect a person. He wanted people to understand that words matter.

In the end this man is a great man. And its tragic that someone of his talent died so young. But like he said in the start of his lecture he did not want that to be a factor. "You deal with the cards you are dealt". He truly had a lot to say and teacher should really listen to him and students alike. He really wants people to achieve so much in life and live life to the fullest.