The Last Lecture
Recommended by Gabriel Coarna, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #1 in Life Lessons, Ranked #2 in Family Law — see more rankings.
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 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... more
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... more
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Gabriel Coarna I read "The Last Lecture" because I had seen Randy Pausch give this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo (Source)
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- #37 in 11th Grade
- #37 in 16-Year-Old
- #18 in Academia
- #21 in Autobiography
- #14 in Bibliography
- #26 in Biography
- #38 in Business Motivation
- #4 in Buzzfeed
- #5 in Cancer
- #28 in Death
- #7 in Dying
- #25 in Enlightenment
- #41 in Existential
- #40 in Feel-Good
- #50 in Game Changer
- #38 in Happiness
- #25 in Humanity
- #15 in Insightful
- #4 in Inspiration
- #9 in Inspiring
- #25 in Intellectual
- #68 in Learning
- #16 in Life
- #53 in Life Changing
- #54 in Lifestyle
- #7 in Mathematician Biography
- #10 in Meaning Of Life
- #28 in Memoir
- #75 in Mind
- #11 in Motivational
- #46 in Nonfiction
- #7 in Options
- #93 in Personal Development
- #93 in Personal Growth
- #31 in Perspective
- #12 in Positivity
- #53 in Real Life
- #80 in Self Development
- #45 in Self-Help
- #58 in Self-Improvement
- #9 in Soul
- #5 in Speech
- #22 in Spirit
- #67 in Success
- #32 in Thought
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- #40 in True Stories
- #23 in True Story
- #16 in Wisdom
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