Monday, 24 October 2011

"The last lecture"

The last lecture I will view as a lecture that is about to put down the tools, or he or she wants to give other professor a chance to their thing. When the lectures want to resign or take a package they become worried about what it is going to happened to their student, is the work going to be the same or what. The last lecture is very important to just live a sign that you were there and you do your job properly, now the next person is going to do the rest.
Randy Pausch
“A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on WHO matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: 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.” These words are from the quote of Randy Pausch

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