Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Why HN readers recommended it

Perennially recommended as an inspirational talk for people facing setbacks or choosing a direction, and a source of oft-quoted lines like the brick wall.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Carnegie Mellon University

Topic

life lessons and achieving dreams

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

12

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2008–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Welcome to the law of Diminishing returns. Your choices fundamentally boils down to the following: -Take the blue pill. Stay in wonderland. Pick a technology, any technology. Drive yourself into it deeper. The rabbit hole goes much, much further, than you can imagine. -Take the …

• If you haven't watched this, it will change your life. Even if you have, it's one of the few youtube videos that is worth a re-watch. The book is just as good if not better. [VIDEO] Spoiler: It is a former CS professor at Carnegie …

• Thankyou, I'd lost sight of this a little. teaching someone how to deal with a type of situation rather than a specific one is always useful in the long run. If anyone else appreciates this type of thing then Randy Pauche's "Last Lecture" is very …