The headline in today’s Life Style section of USA Today is Randy Pausch’s Life, ’Lecture’ goes from Web to book. If you read NOTHING else today, read that article. It’s an update on Randy Pausch for whom I posted in my Living Rich blog last fall. The Carnegie Mellon professor, who is dying of pancreatic cancer, has just released a new book. His book is now on the top of my reading list as is the ABC News Last Lecture special airing tomorrow night. In my series of writing about people who are passionate about their work and life, this man takes the prize. No one else will even come close for a long time. His attitude toward death is astounding. He simply is unbelievable. Make time to watch tomorrow night at 10 pm and let me know your thoughts. Randy is the epitimy of someone who lives RICH. He is the poster child for the book When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

 Some of his quotes:

” People will show you their good side.”

” I have never found anger to make a situation better.”

When asked if he is made about dying and leaving his wife and three kids he responded with:

“I can curl up in ball and cry or I can sew a net.”

His interview is “most see TV”.

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