Book description
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: 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 humour, 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.
