Today I’m breaking my own rules to bring you a video that looks like a TEDxTalk, sounds like a TEDxTalk, but isn’t actually a TEDxTalk. Ever since a group of us interns sat riveted watching this video last week, I decided to throw it back to 2008, when a brilliant professor at Carnegie Melon University named Randy Pausch delivered his last lecture after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. But his speech isn’t a sob story: it’s a lecture about achieving your childhood dreams. And if anyone was qualified to speak on this topic, it’s this brilliant man. As a child, he concocted some pretty outlandish goals: being in zero gravity, playing in the NL, being Captain Kirk, and being a Disney Imagineer, to name a few. Yet in spite of how impossible or ridiculous some of his dreams were, Pausch managed to accomplish each one in his lifetime. In a lecture that is every bit as moving and transformative as a TEDxTalk, Pausch delivers life lessons that will inspire you to keep dreaming.


And, in case you can’t get enough, Pausch wrote a book called The Last Lecture that expands on his presentation.

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