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Hi Everyone,
I'm not sure if this book was ever discussed or not, but I have started reading "The last Lecture " by Randy Pausch, and I am compelled to recommend this book to everyone. Read the book and look at his lecture online and you will be inspired to live a better life, I assure you of that.
Has anyone read this book as yet? What are your thoughts on it? Did it affect you in any way?
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For those of you who don't know what this book is about, the following was taken from the cover of teh book:
Alot of professors give talks tiled "The last Lecture" Professors are asked to consider thier demise and to reminate 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 teh 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 case anyone was wondering this is a true event.
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