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The Last Lecture
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Additional The Last Lecture Information
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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 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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What Customers Say About The Last Lecture:
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Still some residue left on the book from some sticker I would assume.Book is smaller than I expected but content is all there (thing that matters).Quality is a little worse than I expected compared to buying a new book from the bookstore.
Without health, we have NOTHING. This is a wonderful book for anyone who needs to be reminded of the what life is all about, the little things. I will keep this book on my coffee table so that whenever I am feeling down I can glance thru it and be reminded of the greatness of life.
I haven't watched his Last Lecture yet but I will soon. I loved this book, I loved the author's attitude about life and death.
It will speak to him, I'm sure, often during his college career. Pausch writes movingly about the joys of being a son and a father. When I handed my youngest son, who will be attending college fall 2010, I said: "This is one of the finest lessons by one of the finest professors from one of our country's finest colleges." The only thing that is missing, and I know Dr. Mr Pausch will have--if my son reads this book and is as moved by it as I am--helped me with some of my parenting. To return that favor, I will try to be more inspired in my most fortunate job, the college teaching that he no longer can do. Pausch would agree it is a significant omission, is the difficult coursework that convinces students after their best, exhaustive efforts that these lessons are true. I also told my son--contrary to my usual directions--that he is not free to give this book away.
If you're looking to make your life great, buy Live Like A Fruit Fly instead - also on amazon -
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