The last lecture: lessons in living
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- 9780340977736
- 004.092 PAU
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks | Public Policy & General Management | 004.092 PAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 10/07/2023 | 002908 |
Browsing Indian Institute of Management LRC shelves, Shelving location: General Stacks, Collection: Public Policy & General Management Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
||
001.422 SUG Measuring research: what everyone needs to know | 001.433 CAI Narrative inquiry: philosophical roots | 003.54 NIC The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable | 004.092 PAU The last lecture: lessons in living | 004.678023 KAH Be a startup superstar: ignite your career working at a tech start-up | 005.73 FOW Informed company: | 006.754 COL Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for seniors for dummies |
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.
There are no comments on this title.