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Reflections of a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who lectured on "Really achieving your childhood dreams," shortly after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. His advice concerned seizing the moment while living, rather than dying.
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Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Cancer, Computer scientists, Death, Death and burial, New York Times bestseller, Nonfiction, Patients, Philosophy, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Death, Success, advice, inspiration, lecture, life, nyt:hardcover_advice=2009-07-11, open_syllabus_project, Large type books, Cancer, patients, biography, Death, psychological aspects, Conduct of lifePeople
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2008, Grijalbo, Random House Mondadori
in Spanish
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0307392260 9780307392268
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
—Randy Pausch
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was asked to give a last 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.
You can watch The Last Lecture on YouTube.
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