The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living Jeffrey Zaslow English Books•Nonfiction
The Personal MBA•The Code Breaker•Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't•Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know•Zero To One•The Diary of a CEO : The 33 Laws of Business and Life•How AI Thinks : How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it•The Psychology of Money•Shoe Dog : A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE•Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity•Tuesdays with Morrie•Rebel Ideas: The Power of Thinking Differently
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: 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? 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 living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, 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.