The Last Lecture
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.
Autores: Randy Pausch e Jeffrey Zaslow
Editora: Hyperion Books
Autor: AUTORES DIVERSOS
ISBN: 9781401323257
Origem: Nacional
Ano: 2008
Edição: 1
Número de páginas: 224
Acabamento: Brochura
Formato: Médio
De: R$ 65,85
Por: R$ 53,90

