The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

The lecture that captivated the world is now a book to inspires millions. It is a book you should read.

“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, was asked to give a lecture, he knew it would be his last. He had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. 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.

"People do not regret over the things they have done when they are dying but they regret over the things that they have not done or did not do in their lifetime."
—Randy Pausch

If you had one hour to speak to an audience before you died, what would you say?

Go here to view the Last Lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo