Jobs斯坦福大学演讲(二）

   My second story is about love and loss.

    I was lucky--- I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents

garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two

of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollors company with over 4000 employees. We had just released

our finest creation---the Macintosh---a year earlier, and I had just turned out 30. And Then I got

fired from a company you started?Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very

talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.But then our

visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did our Board

of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of

my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

    I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of

entrepreneus down --- that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David

Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure.

and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me.

I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected,

but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

   I didn't see it then, but I turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have

ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a

begginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of

my life.

   During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell

in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the Worlds first

computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events,Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we

developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful

family together.

   I'm pretty sure noe of this world would have happened if I hadn't been fired from apple It was awful

tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.

Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You've

got to find what you love. And that is true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your vork is going to

fill a  large part of your life, and the only way to be truely satisfied is to do what you believe is great

work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking

Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, It just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't

settle.

  

   My third story is about death.

   When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: " If you live each day as if it was your last

someday you'll most certainly be right."It made an impression on me and since then , for the past 33

years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my

life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for

too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

   Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me

make the big choices in life. Because almost everything --- all external expectations, all pride, all fear

of embarrassment or failure. these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truely

important. Remember that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you

have something to lost. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan  at 7:30 in the morning. and it clearly

showed a tumor on my prancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this

was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than

three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's

code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everyting you thought you'd have the next

10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that

it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

   I lived with that diagnoisis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope

down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got

a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed

the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form

of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

   This was the closet I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.

Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a

useful but purely intellectual concept.

   No one wants to die. Even peopel who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet

death is the destination we all sharel. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be ,because

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but It is quiet true.

   Your time is limited , so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma--which is

living with the results of the other people's thinking. Don't let the noise

of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truely want to become. Everything

else is secondary.

     When I was young, there was an amazing publication called the Whole Earth Catalg ,which was one

of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in

Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was the late 1960's, before personal

computer and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewritters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.

It was sort of like Google in paperbck form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and

overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

    Stewart and his team put out serveral issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run

its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of

their final issue was a photograpy of an early morning courtry road, the kind you might find yourself

hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath is were the words: "Stay hungry , Stay foolish".It

was their farewell message as they signed offl. Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish. And I have always wished

that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

   Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

 

     明天就是情人节，一个人在公司百无聊赖，一字一字敲录Jobs的经典演讲。Stay hungry,stay foolish.

我的情人那，你在哪里，你可知道我的心只为你一个人而动？

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