I came across this book in one of my classes in my first semester of college. When the professor first introduced it to the class, stating that we would be reading it throughout the semester and completing assignments about it as we go I was not very excited about it. Personally, I am not a big reader, but I knew I had to read this book and pay very close attention to it since I would have to complete assignments about it. The professor plan was we would read 2-3 chapters every week and try to stay at the same pace as a class. Well, that did not happen. I could not stay at the same pace as the class.
As soon as I started reading the first few chapters of this book, I was so engaged in it. I wanted to read more, it was hard to stop. Instead of taking the whole semester to read the book as it was planned at first, it took me two days to finish it. I did not expect to enjoy reading a book so much and I now believe that …show more content…
He found out that he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was told he had 3-6 months left to live. Soon after finding that out him and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia to be close to his wife’s family, so she would not be completely alone with the kids after he passed away. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and was invited to give a “Last Lecture”. He delivered his “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007. He choose to not make it about cancer or the hard times he was currently going through but in his lecture he talked about topics such as “Inspiration and permission to dream are huge”, “Enabling the dreams of others” and “Lessons Learned”. And one of the most meaningful point he made at the end of his lecture was “It’s not about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams with come to
As soon as I started reading the first few chapters of this book, I was so engaged in it. I wanted to read more, it was hard to stop. Instead of taking the whole semester to read the book as it was planned at first, it took me two days to finish it. I did not expect to enjoy reading a book so much and I now believe that …show more content…
He found out that he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was told he had 3-6 months left to live. Soon after finding that out him and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia to be close to his wife’s family, so she would not be completely alone with the kids after he passed away. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and was invited to give a “Last Lecture”. He delivered his “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007. He choose to not make it about cancer or the hard times he was currently going through but in his lecture he talked about topics such as “Inspiration and permission to dream are huge”, “Enabling the dreams of others” and “Lessons Learned”. And one of the most meaningful point he made at the end of his lecture was “It’s not about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams with come to