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  • Good Advice That Everyone Should Take

  • I am not a fan of memoir but this is a book that nobody should miss. It is full of practical advice for living your life and not missing anything. I am so impressed that this man provided the world with so powerful a gift and was so selfless with the little time he had left. My heart goes out to ... Continue

    I am not a fan of memoir but this is a book that nobody should miss. It is full of practical advice for living your life and not missing anything. I am so impressed that this man provided the world with so powerful a gift and was so selfless with the little time he had left. My heart goes out to his family at his loss. The world is less than it was with his passing.

    

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  • I had been putting off reading this one for a while because I knew it would be sad, and it was, but it was still worth the read. Lots of good life lessons, and his stories about Disney were very cool :)

    

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  • Great, quick read! Full of life lessons!

    

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• ― Jamie Gemuend767 said on Mar 23, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

"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. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

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