03273cam a2200373 4500 577608389 TxAuBib 20220711120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316407861 0316407860 B00139VU7E Amazon f99049c0-9b45-4259-97d8-f224cac5067b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 163487 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pausch, Randy. The Last Lecture [Libby eBook]. Hachette Books, 2008. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1539kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic.</b> <p><i>"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch</i></p> <p>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 over 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?</p> <p>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 <i>living</i>.</p> <p>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.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-11 20:00:03. Zaslow, Jeffrey. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/F99/049/C0/LastLecture.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F99049C0-9B45-4259-97D8-F224CAC5067B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/F99/049/C0/LastLecture.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F99049C0-9B45-4259-97D8-F224CAC5067B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/F99/049/C0/LastLecture.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F99049C0-9B45-4259-97D8-F224CAC5067B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)