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

2. The elephant in the room…

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

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

5. 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

6. My Childhood Dreams

13. 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

14. Being in zero gravity

16. The “vomit comet”

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

20. 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

21. 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”)

22. Being an author in the World Book Encyclopedia

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

25. Being like Captain Kirk
Meeting
Being like Captain Kirk

26. Dream
Being Captain Kirk

30. It’s cool to meet your boyhood idol.

31. Winning Stuffed Animals

40. I can hear the cynics…

41. Being an Imagineer

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

46. 1991: VR on Five Dollars a Day
CHI ‘91, and Tom Furness asks a question…

49. 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.”

50. Our Villain; but all’s well that ends well

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

52. Aladdin

57. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

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

61. Virtual Jungle Cruise

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