Randy Pausch: Achieving With Positivity

Achieving With Positivity Everything in life can change depending on one’s attitude towards it. Author, Randy Pausch, shares his life experience, and what he finds beneficial during his last few months of life with pancreatic cancer. The memoir depicts Pausch’s most valuable life lessons he learns, as well as, shows readers his experiences and achievements throughout points of his life. Although one will face countless obstacles, attitude is the most important factor in life because it enables one to achieve his dreams, and positively affect others. Having a positive attitude in life allows individuals to achieve their childhood dreams. Pausch describes his own experience in attaining a lifelong goal: “NASA made is very clear that

Pausch dreams soaring through the air since he was a child; he has a chance to when he finds an outlet to accompany his students while chaperoning a trip to NASA, despite the fact the zero gravity experience was intended strictly for students. Had he not had such a tenacious, explicit attitude and read the rules verbatim, Pausch would not have found the key to unlocking his dreams. Attitude plays a crucial role in achieving lifelong goals, and even one’s slightest hope can lead to an achieved dream. Pausch’s former student, Tommy Burnett, was also able to attain incredible milestones, and seemingly unrealistic dreams as a result of his attitude. During one of their conversations Pausch mentions, “Word is that they’re finished making Star Wars films… Three new films would be made- in 1999, 2002 and 2005- and Tommy would end up working on all of them” (Pausch 117-119). Burnett set a goal to work on these