Dr. Randy Pausch is Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006. In his lecture he talks about achieving childhood dreams. He’s still alive thanks to chemo and other drugs but it has only delayed the inevitable. He keeps up his daily blog when he can.

This video has been seen over six million times. The video was taped when doctors gave him three to six months of good health. Many people are saying that watching this video has changed their lives.

It’s not a sad video. His goal is to have fun every day. His lecture is upbeat and inspiring. He doesn’t talk about cancer, death or religion. Okay, maybe toward the end it’s a little sad.

What does this have to do with trucking? Probably not much. It is more about life, about achieving your childhood dreams or enabling others to achieve theirs and the lessons you learn along the way. A few things that you might relate to in trucking -

“Brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to keep out other people.”

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

Sit back for the 76 minutes, enjoy something besides our own problems and maybe how to simplify our complicated lives with what’s important. If it changes your life like it has for millions of others, great. At the very least, it’s an incredible story.

Here’s the link to his main site. Where you can download the audio or video to iTunes, download the transcript and order his book. Which he recorded his thoughts into his cellphone while on his morning bike rides and had the WSJ writer transcribe and put into a book.

His book website.

His daily update page.

The link to a piece on 20/20 last week.

The article in the Wall St. Journal that started the sensation.

And of course the video -