How-to books are the most successful kind of non-fiction; the best sell millions of copies. As John McCain and Barack Obama each try and persuade Americans that they are the key to the future, authors with just as much energy and drive are peddling different how-to fantasies: how to pass your sat test, how to help your company "make the leap" from good to great, how to cook Chinese food.rnBut it is Randy Pausch, until he died of pancreatic cancer in July, a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who is outselling them all with his advice on how to achieve your childhood dreams. Asked to speak as part of a series called "The Last Lecture", Pausch recounted how as a child he persuaded his parents to let him repaint his room, how he got to experience zero gravity, how he married the woman of his dreams, learned how not to be arrogant and got to meet Captain Kirk.
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