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The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

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Randy Pausch, the author of the book titled "The Last Lecture" offers multiple insights on how to live your life to the fullest. He states in his book, “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?”. This quote made me reflect on myself and what I’m doing to make my legacy, which is the point of his lecture. The sole purpose of this book is to explain that worrying and complaining about dying isn’t going to help or make anything change, it would only waste precious time. Randy wanted to leave some wisdom and a piece of his legacy for his wife, children, students and the rest of the world through his last lecture. He talks about the lecture being

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