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Really AchievingYour ChildhoodDreams
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University
Sept 18, 2007
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The elephant in the room…
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I’m not in denial…
And I‟m in good health now
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Cancer
Things more important than childhood
dreams: my wife and kids Spirituality & Religion
My deathbed conversion
What we’re not talking about
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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
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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 World
Book encyclopedia
Being Captain Kirk
Winning stuffed animals
Being a Disney Imagineer
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Being in zero gravity
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The “vomit comet”
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Brick walls are there for areason: they let us prove how
badly we want things
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Football
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 mostcomfortable on a football field
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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, welearn indirectly (or by “head fake”)
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Being an author in the
World Book Encyclopedia
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Being like Captain Kirk
Meeting
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Dream
Being Captain Kirk
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It’s cool to meet
your boyhood idol.
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Winning Stuffed Animals
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I can hear the cynics…
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Being an Imagineer
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B i k ll th f
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Brick walls are there for areason: they let us prove how
badly we want things
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1991: VR on Five Dollars a Day
CHI „91, and Tom
Furness asks a question…
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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.”
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Our Villain;
but all‟s
well that
ends well
Brick walls are there for a
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Brick walls are there for areason: they let us prove how
badly we want things
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Aladdin
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Working on Aladdin VR a once in five careers opportunity
Forever changed me
real people, real HCI issues
how to put engineers & artists
together
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Really being an Imagineer…
and I said “no.”
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Virtual
Jungle
Cruise
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Enabling the Childhood
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Enabling the Childhood
Dreams of Others
… or, “ Boy , am I glad I became a professor!”
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Building Virtual Worlds 50 students from art, design, drama, and CS
Randomly chosen teams, change per project
Two weeks to design, implement, and test
Five projects during the semester
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The First Year Listed in Five Departments (I love CMU!)
Content: Anything you want No shooting violence
No pornography
They blew me away w/first assignment
I called Andy van Dam
The first show In McConomy for its A/V
President Cohon’s reaction
Campus-wide Exhibition
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Campus wide Exhibition
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BVW was a pioneering course
And as they say…
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Th D F lfill t F t
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Don Marinelli (Drama) Randy Pausch (CS)
The Dream Fulfillment Factory
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Entertainment Technology
Center (ETC)
Artists + Technologists workingin small teams to make things
2 year professional degree: Mastersof Entertainment Technology
Two kindred spirits: try things a new way; we’re both alittle uncomfortable in academia
CMU is the only place I know where this could happen.
Ri ht B i / L ft B i
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Right Brain / Left Brain
Don & I shared an office for six years
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Don & I shared an office for six years
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Co-Director Credit for the ETC’s Success
The ETC is to “masters degrees”
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as Cirque Du Soleil is to “circus”
ETC Curriculum: First Draft
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Project Course
First Year Fall
Optional Internship
First Year Spring
Second Year Fall Second Year Spring
Project Course
Project CourseProject Course
ETC Curriculum
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The Visual StoryImprovisational Acting
Intro to Entertainment Technology
Building Virtual Worlds
ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course II
Elective
First Year Fall
Optional Internship
First Year Spring
ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course III
Elective
ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course IV
Elective
Second Year Fall Second Year Spring
Key to the ETC’s Success: Freedom
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No deans to report to
License to “Break the mold”
Project-based curriculum
Intense, fun student experience
Field trips!
Edutainment
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Developed with FDNY
Networked simulation
to train 1st responders
to chemical spills and
terrorist attacks
Companies guaranteed hiring our students
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Companies guaranteed hiring our students
Don has taken the ETC global:Australia, Korea, Singapore
Keys to the ETC’s Success: Focus on
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Keys to the ETC s Success: Focus on
People and Learning to work in Groups
Alice
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Alice
The Infinitely
Scalable Dream
Factory And I guess this makes me the mad hatter…
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Alice Novel way to teach
Computer Programming
Kids make movies andgames; the “head fake” isthat they are learning toprogram
Over 1 million downloads, 8textbooks, 10% of UScolleges using right now
Alice is my Professional Legacy
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Alice is my Professional Legacy Helping millions of kids have fun
while learning something hard
v3.0 will release in 2008, in Java,
with characters from the best-selling PC game in history: TheSims
Can’t mention everyone, but…
Dennis Cosgrove is building it
Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, DonSlater are developing the pedagogy
Caitlin Kelleher is going to hit thehome run with middle schoolers
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Lessons Learned
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The Roles of Parents,
Mentors, and Students
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My Dad age 80
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My Dad, age 80
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My Mom
The theory qualifier
My son, the doctor…
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Other people who help us
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Other people who help us Teachers
Mentors
Friends
Colleagues
Andy van Dam
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Andy van Dam Mythical creature
Dutch uncle-d me mysophomore year
Made me go tograduate school
My “Bosses”: Respect authority while questioning it
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We learn from our students
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We learn from our students The best “head
fake” of all time – Caitlin’s idea about
storytelling in Alice
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More Lessons Learned
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President Cohon’s Advice
Tell them about having FUN
Like a fish giving a talk about the
importance of water
Decide if you’re Tigger or Eeyore
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Never Lose the Child-like Wonder
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Help others MK Haley:
Limit case of my
large family theory
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Jessica Hodgins: The best gift ever
Denny Proffitt:
Forgotten more than I‟ll ever know
g y y
“It‟s kind of fun to do
the impossible”
“Professor boy”
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Loyalty is a two-way street
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Never Give Up
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Never Give Up Brown University – didn’t get in.
Carnegie Mellon for Graduate School – didn’t get in.
Meeting with Nico
How to Get People to Help You
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How to Get People to Help You You can’t get there alone, and I believe in
Karma
Tell the truth
Be earnest
Apologize when you screw up Focus on others, not yourself (an example…)
Brick walls let us show our
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Brick walls let us show our
dedication
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Don’t bail; the best
gold is at the bottom of
barrels of crap
Get a feedback loop; and listen to it!
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Get a feedback loop; and listen to it!
Show Gratitude
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Show Gratitude
ETC admissions… How can you do this?
Don’t complain; just work harder.
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Important Advice
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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
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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
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How to achieve your dreams
Have you figured out the head fake?
How to achieve your dreams
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How to achieve your dreams
Have you figured out the head fake?
How to lead your life
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Have you figured out the second head fake?
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Have you figured out the second head fake?
This talk wasn’t for you guys.
It was for Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.
R ll A hi i
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Really Achieving
Your ChildhoodDreams
Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon University
Sept 18, 2007