As I’m sure you already know, Dr. Randy Pausch - the professor at Carnegie Mellon who gave his famous “Last Lecture” speech - recently succumbed to his battle with pancreatic cancer.

The other night, Dateline paid tribute in a special episode that highlighted their previous interviews with him, his family and friends.  They also showed clips from his amazing lecture, and, being a single woman, one excerpt screamed out at me.  They were words of advice for his two-year-old daughter.  Words he would be unable to say in person when the appropriate time came…when boys and dating became a reality.

“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you,” he said, “just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”

Brilliant.

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