I’m reading a book right now that has really spoken to me (not literally of course or else I’d be taking the book on a tour of the US and make millions of dollars…but rest assured should it choose to speak I’ll post a video) but I digress. The book is called ‘The Last Lecture’ by Randy Pausch and if you read no other book this year, take the time to read this one.
Carnegie-Melon has what they call a last lecture series. Basically the speaker is supposed to ruminate on the end of their days and what would they tell the world with their last time. The title of the series has been changed to Journey’s now but the theory is still the same.
And for those of you who have never heard of him, Randy Pausch was a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Melon University as well as a sufferer of pancreatic cancer. He was slated to do the last lecture series and about a month before he was to speak was told that his cancer had spread to his liver and that it was terminal with only 6 months to live. Where most people would give up and die Randy decided that instead he was truly going to give his last lecture. Both as a message to the world but primarily as a message to his children.
I won’t give anything else on this except to say you should go buy the book and watch the lecture today. It’s very thought provoking and if you don’t take anything away from it after you’ve read it…then you’ve probably had a frontal lobotomy and should go back about your business of drooling all over your shoelaces.
Go see Randy’s last lecture here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
And go buy his book here:
Do it now! Because Frank said so!
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