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So I’m reprising a talk that I gave in September
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at Carnegie-Mellon University.
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There is an academic tradition called “The Last Lecture”.
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Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die
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and you had one last lecture
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what would you say to your students?
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Well for me there is an elephant in the room,
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and the elephant in the room is that for me it wasn’t hypothetical.
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I’ve been fighting pancreatic cancer
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It is now come back after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation,
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and the doctors tell me there is nothing more to do
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and I have got months to live.
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These are my most recent CT scans
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The pancreatic cancer has spread to my liver,
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there are approximately a dozen tumors.
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I don’t like this.
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I have three little kids.
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But I can’t do anything about the fact
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that I’m going to die.
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I am pursuing medical treatments,
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but I pretty much know how this movie is going to end
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and I can’t control the cards I’m delt just how I play the hands.
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Now, if I’m not morose enough for you
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I am sorry to disappoint,
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but I don’t choose to be an object of pity.
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And in fact, although I’m going to die soon,
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I’m actually physically very strong.
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In fact, I’m probably physically stronger
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than most of the people in this audience.
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Today’s talk is not about death
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It is about life and how to live
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Specifically about childhood dreams
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And about how you can try to achieve them.
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My childhood dreams, your childhood dreams.
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As a child I had an incredibly happy childhood.
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I went back and raided the photo album
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And I couldn’t find any places where I wasn’t smiling
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Right, I just had a great childhood.
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And I was dreaming, always dreaming.
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It was an easy time to dream.
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When you turn on your television set
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and men are landing on the moon,
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anything is possible.
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And we should never lose that spirit.
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So, what were my childhood dreams?
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Being in a National Football League
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This is one of the childhood dreams I didn’t achieve.
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