Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last
Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their
demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And
while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same
question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we
knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish
tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at
Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he
didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had
recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the
lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your
Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It
was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of
enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because
"time is all you have...and you may find one day
that you have less than you think"). It was a
summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was
about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor,
inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a
phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book
that will be shared for generations to come.
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