How To Achieve Your Childhood Dreams

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How To Achieve Your Childhood Dreams

• Randy Pausch
• Carnegie Mellon University

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The elephant in the room
Dr. Herb Zeh, UPMC Dr.
Robert Wolff, MD Anderson
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Todays Talk

• My childhood dreams
• What I Know For Sure about how you can achieve
  your childhood dreams

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To Achieve Dreams

• Have dreams
• Make a list
• Pursue them

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My Childhood Dreams
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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

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Being in zero gravity
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Dream Meeting Captain Kirk
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Its cool to meet your boyhood idol.
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Playing in the NFL

• Coach Graham
• practice with no football
• fundamentals
• him riding me all practice meant he still cared

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I Never Made it to the NFL, but I learned from
football...

• But football got me where I am today
• Fundamentals Hard Work
• Experience is what you get when you didnt get
  what you wanted
• Most of what we learn, welearn indirectly (or by
  head fake)

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Winning Stuffed Animals
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Being an Imagineer
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Brick walls are there for a reason they let us
prove how badly we want things
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1991 VR on Five Dollars a Day
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Aladdin
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What I Know For Sureabout how to achieve your
childhood dreams
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What I got from my Parents
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My Mom, on her 70th Birthday
My Mom on her 70th Birthday
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Dad Riding A Roller Coaster on his 80th Birthday
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My Mom

• The theory qualifier
• My son, the doctor

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Decide if youre Tigger or Eeyore
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My son Logana born Tigger
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Never Lose the Child-like Wonder
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Advice to Young Ladies like Chloe

• When it comes to boys
• Ignore everything they say, and just pay
  attention to what they do.

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People vs.Things
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How to Achieve your Dreams

• Share your dreams so others can help you
• Spread goodness it will come back to you
• Integrity play for the long term
• Tell the truth
• Be earnest
• Apologize (properly) when you screw up

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Brick walls are there for a reason they let us
prove how badly we want things
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it!
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Show Gratitude
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Dont complain just work harder.
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Important Advice

• Be good at something it makes you valuable
• Work hard whats your secret?
• If you wait long enough, people will show you
  their good side.
• Be prepared luck is where preparation meets
  opportunity

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Why I Gave the Talk
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Why I Gave the Talk
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• Bonus slides

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Money doesnt buy happiness.And it certainly
wouldnt buy my childhood dreams.
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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

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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