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The Last Lecture
by: Randy Pausch

Used Price: £8.80

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9781401309657
ISBN: 1401309658
Label: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: April 10, 2008
Publisher: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
Studio: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
Sales Rank: 432301

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- Inspiring and quirky
Randy Pausch was a remarkable man and this book offers new perspectives on the things he could only touch on within the time constraints of his last lecture. It also reveals different aspects of his complex character. A perhaps uniquely American and Internet age attempt to face death and pass on hard won wisdom. Well worth reading and learning from.

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- What is the big hype about this book
I have completely failed to understand the hype around this book. What is so extraordinary about it? What does it tell us that we do not already know, what "life instructions" does it impart that are new????

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- "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand"
If you had the oportunity to give a last lecture, what would you teach to those listening to you? Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, had to make that decision, and he decided to talk about how to really achieve your childhood dreams.

Randy was dying of cancer when he gave that class, in September. I saw his lecture on wwwyoutubecom, and it really made a big impression on me. It was interesting, motivating, sometimes funny, and the kind of thing that makes you think. Here was a man with a few months to live, that found some time to gift others with the things he had learnt along the way. It was simply unbelievable...

Of course, when I heard that the lecture had been transformed by Randy and ... Read More:

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- Dying teacher's moving lesson plan for life
On July 4, 1939, Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig, fatally ill with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the disease that would be named after him, told a capacity crowd at Yankees Stadium that he was "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Sixty-eight years later, Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Randy Pausch, who has terminal pancreatic cancer, delivered his "last lecture." Like Gehrig, Pausch used the opportunity to express his gratitude rather than focusing on his terrible misfortune. In an hour-long taped presentation that earned him worldwide acclaim as it spread throughout the Internet, Pausch summarized his philosophy, and spoke of the importance of lofty ambition, hard work and perseverance. Pausch's main objective ... Read More:

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- Dream Big...Dream Without Fear
After watching Randy's lecture called "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on YouTube I was blown away by his honesty, clarity and forthrightness in conveying life lessons he has discovered. And soon after I ordered this book which is the written version of that humorous and inspiring lecture.

One of the ideas in his book is what Randy calls "head fake" where you learn an important lesson in an indirect way. I was reminded of my parents sending me out to my many childhood softball, tennis, skiing or golf lessons. At the time thinking I was just learning the skill sets of these sports but really learning so many other skills that have and continue to carry me through my achievements and successes. Those lessons instilled in me ... Read More:

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