Funan Ma - Randy Pausch Assignment - 07129 hw

Who is Randy Pausch?

Randy Pausch is a professor in Carnegie Mellon. In the lecturer, he is giving a speech in the University of Virginia. He declared himself as an expert on time management, knowing how to the finite time, because of his battle with pancreatic cancer over the past one and a half year and the fact that he only has three to sixth month of good health left.

What was he known for?

According to the Youtube description under the lecture, he was known for being a virtual reality pioneer and human-computer interaction researcher.

5 points that you liked in his talk.

  1. The Four Quadrant
  2. He explained that important and not due soon tasks are more than not important and due soon tasks for two reasons. First, the not important and due soon tasks should be skipped, because it is not worth the time. Second, important and not due soon tasks will not squeeze into important and urgent next week if they are done in prior.

  3. Time as a commodity is an very interes ting and inspiring arguments.
  4. How to make to-do list and planning
  5. How to treat time?
  6. How to deal with procrastination? Find out why you lost enthusiasm!! There is always a deep psychological reason