Grand Central Publishing
The Last Lecture
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --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 over 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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Book Details
ISBN:
9781401323257
EAN:
9781401323257
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
224
Authors:
Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Published Date: 2008-08-04
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Putting the overall situation to the side. There are some interesting ideas to take away, but nothing near that which would justify the page count.
Was good.
The author articulates his life from his birth to the very final end when he succumbs to cancer.in the journey you see what is most important to a man's life.love and work are at the top.
I picked up this book because my son had it assigned as summer reading going into his senior year of HS. I had heard good things about it, but I was not ready for this. This was just amazing and thought-provoking. I fear a kid in HS won't get all the good stuff packed into this that, as a Dad, I picked up.I am amazed at how hard it hit me, and yet how much I enjoyed reading and learning from him. I can see he was an amazing person, and fate was just not on his side. Words just don't do this story justice; you need to read it, and possibly more than once, as you go through life.I hope his family is well. It has been many years now, I know, but with such an amazing Mom and Dad, I am sure his kids are going to be fine. He seems to have found the magic key to leaving them a great message of love.
I liked the reality of life and death! It helped me realize I do not have really serious physical problems I still can move about and I am not bed ridden.
