The Last Lecture
There are those books in life that you read, and then they go onto a shelf to collect dust forever…and then there are those books that are meant to be read over and over again. The Last Lecture is one of those books meant to read over and over. It’s a book that will teach you lessons about life that you’ll want to be reminded of time after time.
The tradition behind the last lecture isn’t anything new. In fact, chosen noted professors have been doing it for years and years. Basically they’re asked to give a lecture with the assumption that their life was soon to be over, and to reflect on what the most important lessons that they could share would be. However, by the time that Randy Pausche was asked to give his, those thoughts were already prevalent on his mind. Not more than a month earlier had he been given the dismal diagnosis of pancreatic cancer…of which there was only a 4% survival rate!
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