The Last Lecture

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Randy Pausch’s doctor could have said “you have three to six months to live.” Instead he said “you have three to six months of good health,” and those two words reorganized how Pausch spent his final year. The diagnosis was terminal pancreatic cancer; the framing was a gift. A dying Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, he did what teachers do with whatever time they have — he prepared one last lesson, built around a single idea: a life worth remembering comes from chasing your childhood dreams, treating every obstacle as the price of admission rather than a verdict, and pouring what you know into other people.

Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow on SummaryShelf

The Last Lecture