Let’s say you had pancreatic cancer and less than six months to live. Forecasting what I might do in such a situation is unthinkable–at least on a Monday morning–but if I displayed 1/10 the courage and class of Randy Pausch, I would be proud.

Rand wrote the Last Lecture. And it’s a good thing he did.

Watch it on youtube.com.

Read a pdf transcript of the lecture.

There’s some very powerful ideas in his oration, including:

” . . . experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

” . . . brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”