The Last Lecture Audiobook (Free)
- Eric Singer
- 4 h 30 min
- Hachette Book Group USA
- 2008-04-08
Summary:
‘We cannot transformation the credit cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.’
Randy Pausch
A whole lot of professors give talks titled ‘The Last Lecture.’ Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what counts most to them. Even though they speak, viewers can’t help but mull the same query: What wisdom would we impart towards the globe if we understood it had been our last opportunity? If we’d to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a pc science professor on the subject of THE FINAL Lecture at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to provide such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it simply because his last, since he had recently been identified as having terminal cancer. However the lecture he gave–‘Really Achieving Your Child years Dreams’–wasn’t about dying. It was about the need for overcoming hurdles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because ‘time is all you have…and you’ll find 1 day which you have significantly less than you think’). It had been a summation of everything Randy got come to trust. It had been about living.
Within this book, Randy Pausch has mixed the humor, inspiration and intelligence that produced his lecture such a sensation and given it an indelible form. It really is a book which will be shared for years to come.
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