CHAPTER FIVE
Focus: Bringing Forward the Power of the Mind’s Eye
On September 18, 2007, Randy Pausch, professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University, delivered “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.”1 In his presentation, Randy told the audience of 400 people that he was dying of pancreatic cancer and had only a matter of months to live. He was 47 years old, married to the woman of his dreams and the father of three young children.
The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures in which top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them and then give a hypothetical “final talk” answering the question, “What wisdom would you try to impart to the ...
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