The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, 2008
A dying professor's final lecture becomes a handbook on childhood dreams, brick walls, and how to treat the people in front of you.
Randy Pausch
Pausch gave the lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007, a month after learning his pancreatic cancer was terminal. The talk went viral online before it became a book, written with Jeff Zaslow.
Feels like hope, morality and tenderness.
The silence after you stop being corrected is not kindness.
He said, when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up. And that’s a lesson that stuck with me my whole life. Is that when you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care. Books by Randy Pausch
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