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So, I'm reprising a talk that I gave in September at Carnegy Mellon University. There's an academic tradition called the "last lecture." Hypothetically, if you knew you were gonna die, you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room is that for me wasn't hypothetical. I've been fighting pancreatic cancer. It's now come back after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. And the doctors tell me there's nothing more to do and I have months to live. These are my most recent CT scans. The pancreatic cancers are spreaded to my liver and there's approximately a dozen tumors. I don't like this. I have three little kids. Let's be clear. This stinks. But I can’t do anything about the fact that I'm gonna die. I'm pursuing medical treatments. But I pretty much know how this movie's going to end. And I can’t control the cards aren't dealt, just how I play the hands.Now, if I'm not morose enough for you, I'm sorry to disappoint. But I don't choose to be an object of pity. And in fact, although I'm gonna die soon, I'm actually physically very strong. In fact I'm probably physically stronger than most of the people in this audience. So, today’s talk is not about death. It's about life and how to live. Specifically about childhood dreams and about how you can try to achieve them. My childhood dreams, your childhood dreams. As a child I had an incredibly happy childhood.I went back and rated the photo album and I couldn't find any places where I wasn't smiling. All right, I just had a great childhood and I was dreaming, always dreaming. It was an easy time to dream. When you turn on your television set,and man are landing on the moon anything is possible and we should never loose that spirit. So, what were my childhood dreams? Be in National Football League! This is one of the childhood dreams I didn't achieved. Right, and it's very important to know that, If you don't achieve your dreams, you can still get a lot by trying for it. There's an expression I loved, 'Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.' I played a little league foot ball for a long time, and I had a phenomenal coach, Coach Jim Graham, And he was old school when I was into practice, he rode me all practice You know you’re doing it wrong, go back and do it again, you slacking off, you owe me push-ups, just for two hours. He was relentless. And after practice, one of the assistant coaches came up to me said, yeah, Coach Graham rode you pretty hard. And I said, yeah. He said, that’s a good thing. Because it means he cares, when you doing a bad job and nobody points out to you that when they've given up on you. lesson that's really stuck with me is when somebody is going to ride you for two hours they are doing that because they care to make you better. So, next dream, Walt Disney Imagineering, when I was 8, my family took the pilgrimage to Disneyland in California and it was this incredible experience. The rides and shows and attractions everything. And I said, "Gosh, I'd like to make stuff like that. When I get older" So, I graduated from college, and I tried to become a imaginer-this is the people who make the magic. And I got a lovely rejection letter when I tried again after graduate school and I have to kept all of these rejection letters over the years They are very inspirational! But then the darn this thing happened. You know, I've worked hard and worked hard, and I became a junior faculty member and I specialized in doing certain kinds of research. That's me. |
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많은 분량을 하기보다 훈련했던 부분을 다시 복습해서 좀더 익숙해지기로..
한주동안 훈련한 부분중 한단락을 정하여 암기해서 발표하기 미션도 정해보았습니다^^
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모임이 끝나고, 떡볶이 먹으면서 시상식 거행 ㅎㅎ
우수상품은 "바보빅터"책 한권^^
우리 팀원들 모두 박수!!! 짝짝짝짝짝~~~!! 6월 한달도 수고하셨습니당^^
첫댓글 활동 보고 쓴다고 수고많으셨어요^^
훈련했던부분 다시 하니까 좋긴한데
암기발표가 ㄷㄷㄷ
낼봐요들!
후기 감사해요^^ 그동안 연습한 분량이 생각했던 것 보다 훨씬 많았네요. 무한 반복의 힘으로 파이팅!
어제 팀장님의 생생한 후기를 들으니 더욱더 영어공부에 대한 자극이 되었습니다!멋진 팀을 이끌어주셔서 정말 감사드립니다!^^ TED팀 화이팅!
후기 쓰신다고 고생많으셨어요!! 단어 하나 들리는거에 기뻐하는ㅋㅋ 나중에는 두개, 세개 문장ㄲㅏ지 들리는 날을 위하여 모두모두 화이팅!!