Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon University Sept 18, 2007

The elephant in the room…

I’m not in denial… And I’m in good health now

What we’re not talking about Cancer Things more important than childhood dreams: my wife and kids Spirituality & Religion My deathbed conversion

Today’s Talk My childhood dreams Enabling the dreams of others Lessons learned: how you can achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others

My Childhood Dreams

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

Being in zero gravity

The “vomit comet”

Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things

Football Coach Setliff 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

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 didn’t get what you wanted” Most of what we learn, we learn indirectly (or by “head fake”)

Being an author in the World Book Encyclopedia

Replace this with a picture of Sarah in the headmount and pinch gloves.

Being like Captain Kirk Meeting Being like Captain Kirk

Dream Being Captain Kirk

It’s cool to meet your boyhood idol.

Winning Stuffed Animals

I can hear the cynics…

Being an Imagineer

Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things

1991: VR on Five Dollars a Day CHI ‘91, and Tom Furness asks a question…

Jon Snoddy I had to brief the Secretary of Defense Disney’s 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.”

Our Villain; but all’s well that ends well

Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things

Aladdin

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Working on Aladdin VR a once in five careers opportunity Forever changed me real people, real HCI issues how to put engineers & artists together

Really being an Imagineer… and I said “no.”

Virtual Jungle Cruise

Enabling the Childhood Dreams of Others … or, “Boy, am I glad I became a professor!”