Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.092
EAN: 9781401323257
Format: Roughcut
ISBN: 1401323251
Label: Hyperion
Manufacturer: Hyperion
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Packaged Height: 100 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 60 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publication Date: 2008-04-08
Publisher: Hyperion
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Studio: Hyperion
Product Description:
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy PauschA 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.
Customer Reviews:
 Generational read, 2008-07-04
This is a must read for all generations. Don't hesitate thinking that it is a negative book that will bring you down. Randy's story and lecture will be one of the most inspirational books that you will ever read. It is a fairly quick read that you will review over and over again.
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