The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (hardcover)
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give 'a last lecture', he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed w/ terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't abt dying. It was abt the importance of overcoming obstacles, enabling the dreams of others, & seizing every moment (because time is all you have & 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 abt living. A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. 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? In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration, & intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.inspirational self-helpparenting