It is a non-fiction made almost like a fiction, immensely readable & gripping.
Randy the author has only months to live, he is dying from pancreatic cancer. A professor at Carnegie Mellon, he was asked to give “The Last Lecture”, for him to mark what matters to him most & leave a legacy.
After much deliberation & eventually with the support from his wife, he decided to devote his time to preparing for his last lecture, which means precious time taken away from his family.
The lecture titled – “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. Instead of dying the lecture is about living, he recounted how he lived his childhood dreams, one including a imagineer at Disneyland.
One of his “cliches”, “the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something”. There are much more insights in this book about achieving your dreams and how about going for it.
And came the truth behind Randy’s Last Lecture:
1st head fake: ”it is not about how to achieve your dreams, it is about how you lead your life”.
2nd head fake: “the talk isn’t for those in the room (the lecture hall), it was for his kids”, whom would not have much memory of him as they are older.
