You can read this book whether healthy or ill , fulfilled or floundering in life. It is an insight to the potential in all of us and our society. It makes you seriously evaluate your life and your future regardless of what that may hold. It teaches so many life 'tools' to find what is important you, what makes you happy, what your potential is and how to achieve it. All written by a brilliant ,sensitive technology professor who remains optimistic yet realistic as he spends his final months getting the most out of everyday before passing away from pancreatic cancer. He taught at Carnegie Mellon, a renowned university, and this is basically his path towards the final lecture he will give before students,friends,colleagues and thousands others whom have watched a recording . It is a moving, inspiring book everyone should read.