The Last Lecture – Lessons In Living Randy Pausch – Paperback

Many professors are giving talks entitled ‘The Last Lecture.’ Professors are asked to consider their demise and ruminate on what matters most to them: what wisdom would we give to the world if we knew it was our last opportunity? If tomorrow we had to vanish, what would we want to see as our legacy? When asked to give such a lecture to Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, he did not have to imagine it as his last, since he had been recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave wasn’t about dying, ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.’ It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, enabling other people’s dreams, seizing every moment (because time is all you have and one day you may find you have less than you think). It was a summation of all that Randy’s come to believe. It was about life. Randy Pausch combined the humour, inspiration and intelligence in this book that made his lecture such a phenomenon and gave it an indelible form. It is a book for generations to come to share.