About the Book: Last Lecture
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 didnt
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