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Do you have heroes you can identify in your life? Well I have one I want to share with you. Do you remember what I said in a blog about adapting and adjusting? Heres a master. Randy Pausch PHD is a computer professor at Carnegie Mellon. Hes in his early forties and he has pancreatic cancer. Go to his website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/ and take a moment to view his now famous Last Lecture at the university. Ironically this lecture series was called the last lecture to take famous academics and have them imagine this was their last lecture. Randy doesnt have to. It is his last lecture. He was given 3-6 months of good health before it is predicted he will decline and pass away. Hes still alive and making the most of every moment with family, friends and colleagues. Hes writing a book, and keeps up this incredible website. Suffice it to say, he is extraordinary in his ability to face his own mortality with wit, wisdom, grief, love, and as always, the need to teach others through his own life journey. As a teacher myself, I see his need to keep teaching to his dying day. My patients have always been my muses for writing and teaching. Each of them has graced my life with their stories of slugging it out no matter what is hitting them, good bad or otherwise. Randy is so much like this. This is not a tear jerker. This is one of the most incredible stories and men I have learned of. I am changed for the better just knowing hes out there. So will you.
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