Obstacles In The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

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In “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, the author writes a “final lecture” for the college he works for() mainly directed towards his kids, because of the fact that he might not live long enough to teach his children the lessons of life that he would have taught them if he lived into their adulthood. There are multiple quotes that are spoken during his last lecture that discuss obstacles and how to push through them to achieve goals. There’s a recurring metaphor used for such obstacles throughout the text: “Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls referred to are used in life to ask everyone how much we want something and how hard we are willing to work for the goals we are pushing towards.
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt,
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