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The Last Lecture by Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Last Lecture about?

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch 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. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull over 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 Ran

Who reads The Last Lecture?

Author

Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey

Publisher

New York : Hyperion

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781401309657

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Memoir, Computer Science, Fiction

Rating

4.25 / 5 (245,804 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14