The Last Lecture

This book by Randy Pausch was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Andrew Huberman. The people who vouched for it on air: Andrew Huberman. It comes up in conversations about anxiety & stress, depression & mood, meditation & mindfulness, relationships, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”, Randy Pausch When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was asked to give a last lecture," he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have... and you may find one day that you have less than you think”).

• “In fact, in one of my favorite books, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, he talks about um he was a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “one of my favorite books”
  Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 202600:16:40

  Said during "Unlearn Negative Thoughts & Behaviors Patterns | Dr. Alok Kanojia (Healthy Gamer)". The episode features Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K): Psychiatrist and online mental-health educator behind Healthy Gamer, trained at Harvard and a self-described former video-game addict who also studied as a monk in India for 7 years. He blends Western psychiatry with Eastern contemplative practice. Psychiatrist and former monk Dr. K explains how to unlearn negative patterns by dissolving the ego, mastering emotions, and rewiring the subconscious.