《Three Stories from My Life》歌词

歌曲： Three Stories from My Life

所属专辑：美国名校励志演说 17篇

歌手： 爱飘的夜

时长： 16:57

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Three Stories from My Life - 英语演讲 [00:00:00]

Commencement Address by Steve Jobs [00:00:05]

at Stanford University [00:00:09]

I am honored to be with you today[00:00:11]

at your commencement from one of[00:00:15]

the finest universities in the world.[00:00:17]

I never graduated from college.[00:00:19]

Truth be told, this is the closest[00:00:21]

I've ever gotten to a college graduation.[00:00:24]

Today I want to tell you [00:00:27]

three stories from my life. [00:00:29]

That's it. No big deal.[00:00:31]

Just three stories.[00:00:34]

The first story is about connecting the dots. [00:00:35]

I dropped out of Reed College [00:00:41]

after the first 6 months,[00:00:44]

but then stayed around [00:00:46]

as a drop-in for another 18 months [00:00:48]

or so before I really quit.[00:00:50]

So why did I drop out?[00:00:53]

It started before I was born.[00:00:55]

My biological mother was a young, [00:01:00]

unwed college graduate student,[00:01:02]

and she decided to put me up for adoption.[00:01:04]

She felt very strongly [00:01:08]

that I should be adopted[00:01:10]

by college graduates, [00:01:11]

so everything was all set[00:01:13]

for me to be adopted at birth[00:01:15]

by a lawyer and his wife. [00:01:17]

Except that when I popped out [00:01:19]

they decided at the last minute[00:01:22]

that they really wanted a girl.[00:01:25]

So my parents, who were on a waiting list, [00:01:27]

got a call in the middle of [00:01:30]

the night asking: [00:01:33]

"We have an unexpected baby boy;[00:01:34]

do you want him?" [00:01:37]

They said: "Of course."[00:01:38]

My biological mother later[00:01:41]

found out that my mother[00:01:44]

had never graduated from college[00:01:45]

and that my father had never[00:01:48]

graduated from high school. [00:01:50]

She refused to sign the final adoption papers.[00:01:51]

She only relented a few months later[00:01:55]

when my parents promised [00:01:58]

that I would someday go to college.[00:02:00]

And 17 years later I did go to college. [00:02:03]

But I naively chose a college [00:02:09]

that was almost as expensive as Stanford,[00:02:12]

and all of my working-class [00:02:14]

parents' savings were being spent on [00:02:17]

my college tuition. After six months, [00:02:19]

I couldn't see the value in it. [00:02:22]

I had no idea what I wanted to do[00:02:24]

with my life and no idea[00:02:27]

how college was going to[00:02:29]

help me figure it out. [00:02:31]

And here I was spending all [00:02:32]

of the money my parents had saved [00:02:35]

their entire life.[00:02:38]

So I decided to drop out [00:02:39]

and trust that it would all work out OK.[00:02:42]

It was pretty scary at the time,[00:02:46]

but looking back it was one of[00:02:49]

the best decisions I ever made. [00:02:51]

The minute I dropped out I could stop[00:02:53]

taking the required classes [00:02:56]

that didn't interest me, [00:02:58]

and begin dropping in on the ones[00:02:59]

that looked interesting.[00:03:02]

It wasn't all romantic.[00:03:03]

I didn't have a dorm room, [00:03:07]

so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,[00:03:09]

I returned coke bottles for the five-cent;[00:03:12]

deposits to buy food with,[00:03:17]

and I would walk the 7 miles[00:03:19]

across town every Sunday night [00:03:22]

to get one good meal a week [00:03:24]

at the Hare Krishna temple. [00:03:26]

I loved it. And much of [00:03:28]

what I stumbled into by following my curiosity [00:03:31]

and intuition turned out [00:03:34]

to be priceless later on. [00:03:36]

Let me give you one example:[00:03:37]

Reed College at that time offered[00:03:40]

perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.[00:03:44]

Throughout the campus every poster,[00:03:47]

every label on every drawer, [00:03:50]

was beautifully hand calligrapher.[00:03:52]

Because I had dropped out [00:03:55]

and didn't have to take the normal classes,[00:03:57]

I decided to take a calligraphy class [00:04:00]

to learn how to do this.[00:04:03]

I learned about serif [00:04:05]

and san serif typefaces, [00:04:07]

about varying the amount of space[00:04:09]

between different letter combinations, [00:04:12]

about what makes great typography great.[00:04:14]

It was beautiful, historical,[00:04:17]

artistically subtle in a way [00:04:21]

that science can't capture, [00:04:23]

and I found it fascinating.[00:04:25]

None of this had even a hope of[00:04:27]

any practical application in my life.[00:04:32]

But ten years later, [00:04:34]

when we were designing the first Macintosh computer,[00:04:36]

it all came back to me.[00:04:39]

And we designed it all into the Mac.[00:04:42]

It was the first computer with beautiful typography.[00:04:45]

If I had never dropped in [00:04:49]

on that single course in college, [00:04:52]

the Mac would have never[00:04:53]

had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.[00:04:55]

And since Windows just copied the Mac, [00:04:59]

its likely that no personal computer [00:05:03]

would have them.[00:05:06]

If I had never dropped out,[00:05:07]

I would have never dropped in[00:05:11]

on this calligraphy class, [00:05:12]

and personal computers might not[00:05:14]

have the wonderful typography [00:05:16]

that they do. [00:05:18]

Of course it was impossible[00:05:19]

to connect the dots looking forward [00:05:22]

when I was in college. But it was very,[00:05:24]

very clear looking backwards ten years later.[00:05:27]

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; [00:05:30]

you can only connect them looking backwards.[00:05:36]

So you have to trust [00:05:39]

that the dots will somehow [00:05:43]

connect in your future.[00:05:43]

You have to trust in something - [00:05:45]

your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.[00:05:47]

This approach has never let me down,[00:05:51]

and it has made all the difference in my life.[00:05:54]

My second story is about love and loss.[00:05:57]

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do [00:06:03]

early in life. [00:06:08]

Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage [00:06:09]

when I was 20. We worked hard, [00:06:13]

and in 10 years Apple had grown from[00:06:16]

just the two of us in a garage into [00:06:19]

a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.[00:06:20]

We had just released our finest creation - [00:06:26]

the Macintosh - a year earlier, [00:06:29]

and I had just turned 30.[00:06:32]

And then I got fired.[00:06:35]

How can you get fired from a company you started?[00:06:37]

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone [00:06:41]

who I thought was very talented to[00:06:45]

run the company with me, [00:06:47]

and for the first year or so things went well. [00:06:49]

But then our visions of the future[00:06:52]

began to diverge and eventually[00:06:55]

we had a falling out. [00:06:58]

When we did, [00:06:59]

our Board of Directors sided with him.[00:07:01]

So at 30 I was out.[00:07:03]

And very publicly out. [00:07:07]

What had been the focus of [00:07:10]

my entire adult life was gone, [00:07:13]

and it was devastating.[00:07:15]

I really didn't know what to do for a few months.[00:07:16]

I felt that I had let the previous generation [00:07:21]

of entrepreneurs down - [00:07:25]

that I had dropped the baton [00:07:26]

as it was being passed to me. [00:07:29]

I met with David Packard [00:07:31]

and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize[00:07:34]

for screwing up so badly. [00:07:38]

I was a very public failure,[00:07:39]

and I even thought about running away[00:07:42]

from the valley.[00:07:45]

But something slowly began to dawn on me -[00:07:46]

I still loved what I did. [00:07:49]

The turn of events at Apple had not changed [00:07:52]

that one bit. I had been rejected, [00:07:56]

but I was still in love.[00:07:58]

And so I decided to start over.[00:08:01]

I didn't see it then, [00:08:04]

but it turned out that getting fired [00:08:08]

from Apple was the best thing [00:08:10]

that could have ever happened to me. [00:08:13]

The heaviness of being successful[00:08:15]

was replaced by the lightness of being [00:08:17]

a beginner again, less sure about everything.[00:08:20]

It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.[00:08:23]

During the next five years,[00:08:28]

I started a company named NeXT,[00:08:33]

another company named Pixar, [00:08:36]

and fell in love with an amazing woman [00:08:39]

who would become my wife.[00:08:39]

Pixar went on to create the worlds [00:08:43]

first computer animated feature film, [00:08:47]

Toy Story, and is now the most successful [00:08:49]

animation studio in the world. [00:08:53]

In a remarkable turn of events, [00:08:55]

Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple,[00:08:58]

and the technology we developed at NeXT [00:09:02]

is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.[00:09:05]

And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.[00:09:08]

I'm pretty sure none of this [00:09:12]

would have happened [00:09:17]

if I hadn't been fired from Apple.[00:09:17]

It was awful tasted medicine, [00:09:20]

but I guess the patient needed it.[00:09:23]

Sometimes life hits you in the head [00:09:26]

with a brick. Don't lose faith.[00:09:29]

I'm convinced that the only thing [00:09:32]

that kept me going was[00:09:34]

that I loved what I did.[00:09:36]

You've got to find what you love.[00:09:38]

And that is as true for your work [00:09:41]

as it is for your lovers. [00:09:44]

Your work is going to fill a large part [00:09:46]

of your life, and the only way to be [00:09:49]

truly satisfied is to do what you believe [00:09:52]

is great work. And the only way to do[00:09:55]

great work is to love what you do.[00:09:59]

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.[00:10:02]

Don't settle.[00:10:05]

As with all matters of the heart, [00:10:07]

you'll know when you find it. [00:10:10]

And, like any great relationship, [00:10:12]

it just gets better[00:10:15]

and better as the years roll on.[00:10:17]

So keep looking until you find it. [00:10:19]

Don't settle.[00:10:22]

My third story is about death.[00:10:25]

When I was 17, I read a quote [00:10:29]

that went something like:[00:10:32]

"If you live each day as if it was your last,[00:10:35]

someday you'll most certainly be right." [00:10:38]

It made an impression on me, [00:10:41]

and since then, for the past 33 years, [00:10:44]

I have looked in the mirror every morning [00:10:47]

and asked myself:[00:10:50]

"If today were the last day of my life, [00:10:51]

would I want to do what I am about to do today?" [00:10:54]

And whenever the answer has been "No" [00:10:58]

for too many days in a row, [00:11:02]

I know I need to change something.[00:11:04]

Remembering that I'll be dead soon [00:11:08]

is the most important tool I've ever[00:11:12]

encountered to help me[00:11:16]

make the big choices in life.[00:11:16]

Because almost everything - [00:11:17]

all external expectations, all pride,[00:11:19]

all fear of embarrassment or failure - [00:11:24]

these things just fall away in the face of death, [00:11:26]

leaving only what is truly important.[00:11:30]

Remembering that you are going to die[00:11:33]

is the best way I know to avoid [00:11:36]

the trap of thinking you have something to lose. [00:11:39]

You are already naked. [00:11:42]

There is no reason not to follow your heart.[00:11:45]

About a year ago[00:11:49]

I was diagnosed with cancer. [00:11:52]

I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning,[00:11:54]

and it clearly showed a tumor [00:11:57]

on my pancreas. [00:11:59]

I didn't even know what a pancreas was.[00:12:01]

The doctors told me this [00:12:04]

was almost certainly a type of cancer [00:12:07]

that is incurable, [00:12:09]

and that I should expect [00:12:11]

to live no longer than three to six months.[00:12:12]

My doctor advised me to go home[00:12:15]

and get my affairs in order, [00:12:18]

which is doctor's code for prepare to die.[00:12:20]

It means to try to tell[00:12:24]

your kids everything you thought [00:12:27]

you'd have the next 10 years [00:12:29]

to tell them in just a few months.[00:12:31]

It means to make sure everything [00:12:34]

is buttoned up so[00:12:37]

that it will be as easy as possible[00:12:38]

for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.[00:12:40]

I lived with that diagnosis all day.[00:12:45]

Later that evening I had a biopsy,[00:12:50]

where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, [00:12:53]

through my stomach and into my intestines,[00:12:57]

put a needle into my pancreas [00:12:59]

and got a few cells from the tumor. [00:13:02]

I was sedated, but my wife,[00:13:02]

who was there, told me that[00:13:08]

when they viewed the cells[00:13:10]

under a microscope the doctors [00:13:12]

started crying because it turned out [00:13:14]

to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer[00:13:17]

that is curable with surgery.[00:13:20]

I had the surgery and I'm fine now.[00:13:24]

This was the closest[00:13:28]

I've been to facing death, [00:13:32]

and I hope it’s the closest Iget[00:13:33]

for a few more decades. [00:13:36]

Having lived through it, [00:13:37]

I can now say this to you[00:13:40]

with a bit more certainty [00:13:42]

than when death was a useful[00:13:43]

but purely intellectual concept:[00:13:45]

No one wants to die.[00:13:48]

Even people who want to go to heaven[00:13:53]

don't want to die to get there.[00:13:55]

And yet death is the destination we all share. [00:13:57]

No one has ever escaped it. [00:14:01]

And that is as it should be,[00:14:03]

because Death is very likely [00:14:06]

the single best invention of Life.[00:14:08]

It is Life's change agent.[00:14:10]

It clears out the old to make way for the new.[00:14:14]

Right now the new is you, [00:14:17]

but someday not too long from now, [00:14:20]

you will gradually become the old [00:14:23]

and be cleared away. [00:14:26]

Sorry to be so dramatic,[00:14:27]

but it is quite true.[00:14:30]

Your time is limited, [00:14:32]

so don't waste it living someone else's life.[00:14:37]

Don't be trapped by dogma - [00:14:39]

which is living with the results [00:14:42]

of other people's thinking. [00:14:44]

Don't let the noise of other's opinions[00:14:45]

drown out your own inner voice.[00:14:48]

And most important, [00:14:51]

have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.[00:14:53]

They somehow already know[00:14:57]

what you truly want to become.[00:14:59]

Everything else is secondary.[00:15:01]

When I was young, there [00:15:03]

was an amazing publication called[00:15:06]

The Whole Earth Catalog,[00:15:09]

which was one of the bibles of my generation.[00:15:12]

It was created by a fellow [00:15:14]

named Stewart Brand not far [00:15:17]

from here in Menlo Park, [00:15:20]

and he brought it to life[00:15:21]

with his poetic touch. [00:15:23]

This was in the late 1960's,[00:15:24]

before personal computers [00:15:27]

and desktop publishing, [00:15:29]

so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, [00:15:31]

and Polaroid cameras.[00:15:34]

It was sort of like Google in paperback form,[00:15:36]

35 years before Google came along: [00:15:39]

it was idealistic, and overflowing[00:15:43]

with neat tools and great notions.[00:15:46]

Stewart and his team put out [00:15:49]

several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog,[00:15:52]

and then when it had run its course,[00:15:55]

they put out a final issue.[00:15:57]

It was the mid-1970s, [00:15:59]

and I was your age.[00:16:02]

On the back cover of their final issue [00:16:03]

was a photograph of an early morning country road, [00:16:06]

the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking [00:16:09]

on if you were so adventurous. [00:16:12]

Beneath it were the words: [00:16:14]

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." [00:16:16]

It was their farewell message as they signed off.[00:16:20]

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. [00:16:25]

And I have always wished that for myself.[00:16:29]

And now, as you graduate to begin anew,[00:16:33]

I wish that for you.[00:16:36]

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.[00:16:39]

Thank you all very much.[00:16:45]