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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
Memoir / Self-Help
The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
—· 233 p· 2008
NYT Bestsellerhopefulreflectivephilosophical
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
—Randy Pausch
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was asked to give a last 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 m…
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
—Randy Pausch
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was asked to give a last 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 m…