Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Randy Pausch On the Oprah Winfrey Show

When I browsed through blogs update just now, I read Dr. Irene's blog post about Prof. Randy Pausch. After watching the video, I shed a few tears =(

The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk", with a topic such as "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" The talk was later released as a book called The Last Lecture , which became a New York Times best-seller." ~Wikipedia

I google him and found that he was on the Oprah Winfrey show earlier in Oct 2007 where he discussed his situation and summarised his "Last Lecture":

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