Randy Pausch是美國卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)的計算機科學(xué)、人機交互及設(shè)計教授。2006年9月，他被診斷患有胰腺癌。2007年9月18日，他在卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)做了一場風(fēng)靡全美的“最后的演講”，根據(jù)這次演講，他出版的“The Last Lecture”一書則成為亞馬遜網(wǎng)站上最為暢銷的書籍之一。Randy教授所傳達(dá)的訊息之所以如此震撼人心，是因為他以誠懇、幽默的態(tài)度去分享他獨特的經(jīng)驗。他談的不是死亡，而是人生中的重要議題，包括克服障礙、實現(xiàn)兒時夢想、幫助別人實現(xiàn)夢想、把握每一個時刻……
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My hope was that more than a few students would see this information and say, "Wow, I've got to take it up a notch." It was hard feedback to ignore, but some still managed. For one course I taught, I'd had students access each other in the same way, but only let them know the quartile in which they ranked. I remember a conversation I had with one student whom others found particularly obnoxious. He was smart, but his healthy sense of himself left him clueless about how he was coming off. He saw the data ranking him in the bottom quartile and remained unfazed. He figured that if he was ranked in the bottom 25%, he must have been at the 24% or 25% level, rather than, say, in the bottom 5%. So in his mind, that meant he was almost in the next higher quartile. So he saw himself as "not so far from 50%," which meant peers thought he was just fine.