The Last Lecture

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Lessons in Living

By: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow

Narrated by: Eric Singer

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', wasnt 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.


(P)2008 Hodder Headline Audiobooks©2008 Randy Pausch

Critic reviews

Inspiring

Incredibly moving

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Interesting, funny and moving. An instructional biography on his life; appropriately with the strength of his presentation and story waning towards the end.

life skill

it's incredible that Randy can add so much value to one's life thru dealing with his own challenges. hamba khahle Randy and family

definitely not for everyone

if you are not a child of the author then this book is not for you