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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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Jun 16, 08

bookshelves: autobiography-memoirs, 2008
Read in June, 2008

I was really moved by the author's story when I saw it on a news program and was very interested in reading the book. I admire his strength and attitude while dealing with a terminal cancer diagnosis. I really wanted to love the book, but can only say that I liked it. Though there was a lot of good advice, I just found nothing extremely new or especially moving about it. There were parts of it that seemed rather arrogant, but I excused that by reminding myself that these are the final words of a man who is just trying to say what he has learned in life... All in all, good, but not great.

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Randy Pausch
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture


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