1. How To Achieve Your Childhood Dreams Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon University

2. Dr. Herb Zeh, UPMC Dr. Robert Wolff, MD Anderson The elephant in the room…

3. Today’s Talk n My childhood dreams n “What I Know For Sure” about how you can achieve your childhood dreams

4. To Achieve Dreams… 1) Have dreams 2) Make a list 3) Pursue them

5. My Childhood Dreams

10. Being in zero gravity Playing in the NFL Authoring an article in the encyclopedia Meeting Captain Kirk Winning stuffed animals Being a Disney Imagineer

11. Being in zero gravity

13. Dream: Meeting Captain Kirk

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

17. Playing in the NFL n Coach Graham ä practice with no football ä fundamentals ä him riding me all practice meant he still cared

18. I Never Made it to the NFL, but I learned from football... n But football got me where I am today n Fundamentals & Hard Work n “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted” n Most of what we learn, we learn indirectly (or by “head fake”)

19. Winning Stuffed Animals

23. Being an Imagineer

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

27. 1991: VR on Five Dollars a Day

28. Aladdin

29. “What I Know For Sure” about how to achieve your childhood dreams…

30. What I got from my Parents

31. My Mom, on her 70 th Birthday My Mom on her 70 th Birthday

32. Dad Riding A Roller Coaster on his 80 th Birthday

37. My Mom n The theory qualifier n My son, the doctor…

42. Decide if you’re Tigger or Eeyore

43. My son Logan; a born Tigger

44. Never Lose the Child-like Wonder

45. Advice to Young Ladies like Chloe n When it comes to boys… n “Ignore everything they say, and just pay attention to what they do.”

46. People vs. Things

47. How to Achieve your Dreams n Share your dreams so others can help you n Spread goodness; it will come back to you n Integrity: play for the long term: Tell the truth Be earnest Apologize (properly) when you screw up

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

49. Get a feedback loop; and listen to it!

50. Show Gratitude

51. Don’t complain; just work harder.

52. Important Advice n Be good at something: it makes you valuable n Work hard … “what’s your secret?” n If you wait long enough, people will show you their good side. n Be prepared: “luck” is where preparation meets opportunity

53. Why I Gave the Talk

55. n Bonus slides

56. Money doesn’t buy happiness. And it certainly wouldn’t buy my childhood dreams.

57. My Childhood Dreams Being in zero gravity Playing in the NFL Authoring an article in the encyclopedia Meeting Captain Kirk Winning stuffed animals Being a Disney Imagineer

58. My Childhood Dreams Being in zero gravity Playing in the NFL Authoring an article in the encyclopedia Meeting Captain Kirk Winning stuffed animals Being a Disney Imagineer