The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch Essay

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What is a success and how people understand it? Why some people are successful in college, work and everyday life? Why other are always stressed and cannot achieve the desired result? In “The Last Lecture”, Professor Randy Pausch explained lots of strategies how to become successful. In fact “The Last Lecture” is an encyclopedia for all of those who want to be successful. To be successful people have to learn how to manage their time, understand failure as an experience, and learn how to work in groups. First of all, professor Pausch believes that one of the most important strategies to become successful is to manage time well. Also, he decided to give a lecture based on time management to his students. Living in a busy world, people always are running out of time. Therefore, learning the strategy how to manage their time will help people to be successful. For instance, Professor Pausch gave us some examples how to manage our time. First, make a planner. The planner will help us organize our time …show more content…

Since many companies and college courses are using group work, people how to know how to do it. Being a good team player will help people succeed. First, before starting work in group people have to introduce themselves and learn everyone’s name. Second, a person has to learn how to deal with group members. Since everybody is different, people have to find common things to discuss. In this way, group members become more sociable and ready to work. Next, group members have to praise alternatives as questions. Finding alternatives will lead people to offer more comments instead of thinking about the choice. In addition, a group member has to learn to take turns. Working on different tasks will add varieties in group activities. Also, people will come with more ingenious ideas. Moreover, the outcome of a group work is often better than the achievement of one person. Thus, being a great team player will help people