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

What is The Last Lecture about?

EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"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 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. I

Who reads The Last Lecture?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher
New York : Hyperion
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781401323257
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Memoir, Computer Science, Fiction
Rating
4.25 / 5 (245,804 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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