What would you say if you had one last lecture to share whatever you feel is important? That is the key question in the last lecture series trend, where university professors give a lecture based on what they would want to share if it were their very last.
Ellen at Positive Communication writes about one professor for whom the last lecture idea mirrors reality all too closely. Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, has a fatal form of cancer, giving him only months to live. His lecture - titled, "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams" - is worth watching.
I love the idea of trying to formulate what you would say if you had one last lecture to give. We get so caught up in the spinning whir of our lives that it can be easy to lose track of what's really important to us. Boiling what you would want to share with others down to one single lecture forces you to cut through all the irrelevant crap and ask yourself, "What ideas would I want to leave behind? What insights are worth leaving as a legacy? What do I really care about?"
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