Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

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Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

• Randy Pausch
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Sept 18, 2007

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The elephant in the room
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Im not in denial
And Im in good health now
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What were not talking about

• Cancer
• Things more important than childhood dreams my
  wife and kids
• Spirituality Religion
• My deathbed conversion

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Todays Talk

• My childhood dreams
• Enabling the dreams of others
• Lessons learned how you can achieve your dreams
  or enable the dreams of others

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My Childhood Dreams
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My Childhood Dreams

• Being in zero gravity
• Playing in the NFL
• Authoring an article in the World Book
  encyclopedia
• Being Captain Kirk
• Winning stuffed animals
• Being a Disney Imagineer

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Being in zero gravity
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The vomit comet
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Brick walls are there for a reason they let us
prove how badly we want things
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Football

• Dream play in the NFL
• Coach Graham
• practice with no football
• fundamentals
• him riding me all practice
• Coach Setliff
• Power of enthusiasm
• To this day, I am most comfortable on a football
  field

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I Never Made it to the NFL

• But football got me where I am today
• Fundamentals Hard Work
• Experience is what you get when you didnt get
  what you wanted
• Most of what we learn, welearn indirectly (or by
  head fake)

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Being an author in theWorld Book Encyclopedia
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Being like Captain Kirk
Meeting
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Dream

• Being Captain Kirk

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Its cool to meet your boyhood idol.
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Winning Stuffed Animals
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I can hear the cynics
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Being an Imagineer
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Brick walls are there for a reason they let us
prove how badly we want things
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1991 VR on Five Dollars a Day
CHI 91, and TomFurness asks a question
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Jon Snoddy

• I had to brief the Secretary of Defense
• Disneys Aladdin project
• Lunch with Jon
• But you're in the business of telling stuff,
  and we're in the business of keeping secrets
• He taught me wait, and people will surprise
  you.

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Our Villain but alls well that ends well
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Brick walls are there for a reason they let us
prove how badly we want things
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Aladdin
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Working on Aladdin VR

• a once in five careers opportunity
• Forever changed me
• real people, real HCI issues
• how to put engineers artists together

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Really being an Imagineer and I said
no.
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Virtual Jungle Cruise
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Enabling the ChildhoodDreams of Others
or, Boy, am I glad I became a professor!
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