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Inspirational reflections on life, dreams, and legacy.

"The Last Lecture" can resonate deeply if you're looking for inspiration to chase your own dreams or if you need a reminder of what's genuinely important in life. Randy Pausch delivers wisdom that's at once grounded, profound, and infused with the urgency of his own experience. You might find yourself moved to reconsider your priorities and the way you tackle your own obstacles after delving into Pausch's personal anecdotes and life lessons.

  • Audie Award for Biography/Memoir (2009)
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The Last Lecture

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ISBN: 9781401323257
Publisher: Hachette Books
Date of Publication: 2008-04-08
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 4.26
(rated by 358712 readers)

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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.
 

Inspirational reflections on life, dreams, and legacy.

"The Last Lecture" can resonate deeply if you're looking for inspiration to chase your own dreams or if you need a reminder of what's genuinely important in life. Randy Pausch delivers wisdom that's at once grounded, profound, and infused with the urgency of his own experience. You might find yourself moved to reconsider your priorities and the way you tackle your own obstacles after delving into Pausch's personal anecdotes and life lessons.

  • Audie Award for Biography/Memoir (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.