The Last Lecture

I moved The Last Lecture book from "what I'm reading" to "my recent reads'. It's short book of 207 pages I read on a weekend day. So full of wisdom and honesty by Randy Paush, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, who has terminal cancer. This book was written for his 3 young kids to sum up everything he has come to believe and pass that on to them. Wonderful how I and millions of others have benefited from this stranger's words but unfortunate to experience it under the circumstance that pancreatic cancer caused this sense of urgency.

Here are some tidbits I came away with... the importance of overcoming obstacles, living your dreams and helping others achieve theirs and seize every moment. It wasn't a book about dying but ironically enough about living.

Comments

[Curtis]

How inspiring Randy Pausch is! If you liked "The Last Lecture", another fantastic memoir I just read and highly recommend is "My Stroke of Insight" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Her TEDTalk video (ted.com) has been seen as many times as The Last Lecture I think, and Oprah did 4 shows on her book, so there are a lot of similarities. In My Stroke of Insight, there's a happy ending though. It's an incredible story! I hear they're making it into a movie.

[Maria]

Wonderful recommendation Curtis. Thank you. Here's the video link to her lecture... http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Last I saw, her book was available at Amazon marketplace used ($13) but not available new. Check your library too.