"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 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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A magnificent tale.
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 | Review
by: Chris G.
Absolutely riveting. Written by Randy Pausch - who was dying and has since died of pancreatic cancer - as a legacy for his family. Not at all preachy or self-pitying, it's a wonderful tale of positivity. Inspirational.
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