The question we asked the other day about why don't we let the kids talk more in public may have an answer in the Randy Pausch video which is a summary of the talk, longer, offered at Carnegie Mellon University called Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
I have reached the video, ten minutes long (in English with Spanish subtitles) and really exciting, through the publication of Natalia Gómez del Pozuelo of Speak in public and succeed. This work, in its scarce 40 pages, explains, relying on Randy's video, how we can express ourselves with greater security and confidence, how to capture the attention of others, how to be authentic and how to learn to listen. The publication is full of references, this one by Randy is the most important, to practice at home. I think it is also expandable, although it would have to be modified, to work with the kids.
Because these objectives can be taught to children from the earliest childhood and surely they can serve to reach a future in which they will know how to defend themselves and fend for themselves. In the video you can see how Randy's parents awoke in him a lot of illusions that he over time, in some cases a lot of time, got and achieved. For example, he is very grateful to his parents saying phrases like: "If you want to achieve your dreams I advise you to have good parents"
I also loved it, and you can see in the video, how used to make his presentation images of his childhood in which he shows his happiness. It also conveys important values such as humility, knowing how to value the material in its proper measure and dignity. I loved it when he shows how his parents let him decorate his room and he painted it with geek motifs, which we would say today, and his parents left him and nothing happened. He had a great time and also probably learned some technique in addition to gaining confidence in his work. Besides, he didn't know that many years later he would tell thousands of people ...
AdvertisingAnd finally, and also important, indicate that Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August 2006. He performed a very aggressive treatment that included major surgery and experimental chemotherapy, however, in August 2007 he was told that the cancer had metastasized to the liver and spleen, which meant it was terminal. On May 2, 2008, his cancer had spread to his lungs and to more parts of the body. On July 25, 2008 he died of cancer.
