The Last Lecture
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.
作者简介
★2008年5月18日,美國前副總統高爾在卡内基美隆大學第111屆畢業典禮上,盛讚鮑許教授是位「英雄」 ★2008年5月30日,美國現任總統布希親筆寫信給蘭迪鮑許:「您與癌症搏鬥的精神讓我深受感動,您的非凡故事振奮了千萬美國人的心靈。您展現出的堅強品格已立下美好的典範,您的勇氣與決心是鼓舞眾人的力量。感謝您為我們國家年輕一代所做出的不可搖撼的貢獻……」
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