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(兰迪·波许教授的最后一课) Randy.Pausch's Last Lecture Powerpoint Slides
(兰迪·波许教授的最后一课) Randy.Pausch's Last Lecture Powerpoint Slides
Your Childhood
Dreams
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University
Sept 18, 2007
The elephant in the room…
I’m not in denial…
■ 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
➤ Power of enthusiasm
■ To this day, I am most
comfortable on a football field
I Never Made it to the NFL
Optional Internship
Optional Internship
■ Project-based curriculum
■ Field trips!
Edutainment
The Infinitely
Scalable Dream
Factory
■ Mentors
■ Friends
■ Colleagues
Andy van Dam
■ Mythical creature
■ Dutch
uncle-d me my
sophomore year
■ Mademe go to
graduate school
My “Bosses”: Respect authority while questioning it
We learn from our students
■ Thebest “head
fake” of all time –
Caitlin’s idea about
storytelling in Alice
More Lessons Learned
President Cohon’s Advice
“Professor boy”
Denny Proffitt:
Forgotten more than I’ll ever know
ETC admissions…
How can you do this?
Don’t complain; just work harder.
Important Advice
■ Be good at something: it makes you
valuable
■ Work hard … “what’s your secret?”
■ Find the best in everybody; no matter how
you have to wait for them to show it
■ Be prepared: “luck” is where preparation
meets opportunity
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
How to achieve your dreams