The Last Lecture Lessons in Living

<p><b>The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold.</b><br> <b>What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?<br></b>When <b>Randy Pausch</b>, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give <b>'a last lecture'</b> lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with <b>terminal pancreatic</b> <b>cancer</b>. But the lecture he gave, '<b>Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams</b>', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of <b>overcoming obstacles</b>, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (<b>because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think</b>). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about <b>living.</b><br> <br> 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 <b>legacy</b>?<br> <br> In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, 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.</p>