Final Lecture with weeks to live - Randy Pausch,Cornegie Mellon

This is the lecture delivered on Sept 8th, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University.

Some of the real life lessons he talked about :

- Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you, He said when you are pissed off with someone and if you are angry at them, then you probably haven't given them enough time.
- Tenacity is a virtue. Not getting what you want is the most valuable experience you can have.
- Experience, he said is what you get when you don't get what you want

A perspective on the world and the globalization

Check this link before you read !

http://netlab.gmu.edu/~schilap1/images/Hunger.bmp

The world is not flat, yes, you heard me right !!

Everyone is saying world is becoming smaller, yes true. But do we really see the conditions that people live in? Isn't the world still really big enough that we don't see the real conditions that people live in, the kid whose life can be saved for $50??

There is a huge political vacuum to be filled. There is a real role today for a movement that could advance the agenda of how we globalize - not whether we globalize. The best places such a movement could start are Africa and rural parts of India, China.

Every time a villager watches the community TV and sees an ad for soap or shampoo, what they notice are not the soap and shampoo but the life style of the people using them - the kind of motor bikes they ride, their dress and their homes.

What have we learned from 2004 elections!!! Voters were not saying "Stop globalization train, we want to get off." They were saying "Stop globalization train, we want to get on, but some one needs to help us by building a better step school."


- "THE WORLD IS FLAT"