The Last Lecture
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Lessons in Living
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 224
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780340978504
- Utgivelsesår: 2010
- Bidragsyter: Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey
The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold.
What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give ''a last lecture'' lecture, he didn''t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal pancreaticcancer. 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.
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 imp