The Money Tree Magazine 1st Issue | Page 44

lifestyle The Last Lecture Randy Paush and Jeffrey Zaslow (2008) In 2007, Randy Paush, a Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon, gave his last lecture entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. Surprisingly, even though he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancel, his “last” lecture wasn’t about dying. Rather, it was about living, about seizing the moment and about overcoming difficulty. The lecture was widely popular and, in 2008, a book wa