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Randy Pausch's Last Lecture Powerpoint Slides
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
The best “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