The Last Lecture

Sometimes, even if I stand in the middle of the room, no one acknowledges me, says the poor elephant.

If you've never read the book, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, please put it on your reading list.

He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon who passed from pancreatic cancer.

And when he was faced with his own mortality, he chose to make his last lecture all about the lessons he learned.

A lot of those angels in disguise for me were coaches, teachers, relatives, past college, pa- past colleagues, sorry.

But I think what our coach also gave us is he gave us really understanding Jim Collins, really understanding Randy Pausch, you know, f- the guy who wrote The Last Lecture, who just celebrated his 18 years of passing.

He gave us Harry Kramer, From Values to Action, all these books that we decided to read as a leadership team.

We read a book every quarter.

Without a doubt

Okay, to close out this foundational discussion on meaning, we have Randy Pausch's incredibly moving book, The Last Lecture

Such a powerful story

In 2007, Pausch, a computer science professor, had recently been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.

That's cool.

And then I got to r- watch the, The Last Lecture with Randy Pausch, and in that, you know, this is at, you know, just before he passes away, Randy says, you know, all the life lessons, and he goes, "At the end of the day, brick walls are there to show you how much you want what's on the other side.

So do you go over it? Do you go around it? Do you go through it? Do you go under it? But whatever you do, you gotta go and find a way."

That's pretty cool.

But anyway, one book every entrepreneur should read apart from your own.

Yeah, there's a book called The Last Lecture.

You guys read this? No.

So it's one I've recommended all the time.

No one's ever read it.

It's called The Last Lecture.

It's by the guy called Randy Posh, P-A-U-S-H-E. He's dead now because basically the premise is in America.

These academics give a lecture as if it's their last.

But he decided, shockingly... that he would complete his teaching assignment.

So he taught his last semester, wrote a book, and spent time with his kids, but the title of his class was Last Lecture.

So this sort of kind of co-responded.

It was thinking about, all right, if I had...