《Follow Your Bliss， Follow your Heart》歌词

歌曲： Follow Your Bliss， Follow your Heart

所属专辑：美国名校励志演说 17篇

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Follow Your Bliss, Follow your Heart - 英语演讲 [00:00:02]

Anderson Cooper Delivers Yale Class Day Speech[00:00:07]

Members of the Class of 2006, [00:00:11]

friends, faculty, parents,[00:00:15]

members of the Taliban: [00:00:17]

Thank you very much. [00:00:19]

What? What? Oh, come on. Come on.[00:00:21]

What are you going to do,[00:00:26]

bury me up to my head in the sand?[00:00:28]

Hey, I’ve been there, I’ve been there.[00:00:31]

I have to be honest, [00:00:35]

I was a bit nervous to come back to Yale.[00:00:39]

I graduated with the Class of 1989, [00:00:41]

17 years ago, and I still have this recurring nightmare …[00:00:46]

Trumbull, yes, thank you, Trumbull.[00:00:50]

Sure, why not? (referring to Trumbull College)[00:00:54]

I still have this recurring nightmare[00:01:00]

that there’s some exam I haven’t completed[00:01:03]

in one of those throwaway science courses like Intro.[00:01:05]

to Psych or something. Oh, come on, I love Intro.[00:01:10]

to Psych. I just really didn’t want to[00:01:14]

take a science course. And actually last night[00:01:17]

I literally had a dream [00:01:21]

that the campus police had an outstanding warrant[00:01:23]

for my arrest if I returned to Yale. [00:01:26]

So I was a little bit nervous.[00:01:28]

And the other reason I was reluctant [00:01:32]

to return to campus is that being here actually[00:01:37]

allows the Yale Alumni Association to[00:01:40]

get a pinpoint on me. Because you don’t know[00:01:43]

this about the Yale Alumni Association yet,[00:01:49]

but let me just warn you: for the rest of your life,[00:01:50]

they will hunt you down. No matter where you go,[00:01:53]

no matter what country you live in, [00:01:58]

they will find you, and they will write you letters[00:02:00]

and they will squeeze you for every cent you make.[00:02:04]

Seriously, enjoy the next 24 hours because right[00:02:08]

now you are still students.[00:02:14]

Tuesday morning they will have all your numbers,[00:02:15]

all your addresses in the database [00:02:19]

and they will start tracking you. [00:02:22]

If Osama bin Laden was a Yale graduate [00:02:25]

they would know what cave he was in, exactly. [00:02:28]

It’s true. [00:02:31]

President Bush should get the Yale Alumni Association on the case.[00:02:34]

I was actually very excited to meet many of you today [00:02:39]

until I actually did meet you and realized [00:02:44]

how young you are all and how old it makes me feel.[00:02:48]

Tre Borden (Class of 2006 Secretary) informed me [00:02:52]

that actually most of you were born the year[00:02:58]

I graduated from high school,[00:03:01]

which is personally a terrifying prospect for me.[00:03:03]

Seriously, it is a pleasure to be here [00:03:07]

on what is a remarkable day.[00:03:12]

It’s a beautiful day if it doesn’t rain [00:03:13]

and a very special day in your lives.[00:03:16]

You’ve worked incredibly hard to get here, [00:03:19]

to get through here,[00:03:22]

and I hope you’re all very proud of yourselves.[00:03:24]

You should be. And I’m sure you’ve already done this, [00:03:27]

but I hope that at some point this weekend -[00:03:32]

I’m sure everybody’s encouraged you to do this -[00:03:34]

that you look your parents in the eye [00:03:37]

and hug them close and thank them for everything [00:03:40]

they have done to get you to this moment and this spot.[00:03:44]

Because as hard as it’s been for you, [00:03:48]

I guarantee you it’s been twice as hard for them.[00:03:52]

I wasn’t really sure what to talk to you [00:03:55]

about today and I asked Tre and he said,[00:04:01]

“Well, you know Class Day is such an important day,[00:04:03]

and I’m sure we’d love to hear some of your memories of it.” [00:04:07]

And that calmed me because the truth of the matter[00:04:11]

is I have absolutely no memories of this day. [00:04:14]

I thought back to my own graduation and, [00:04:19]

I mean I’m sure I was here[00:04:22]

because I have the little clay pipe and [00:04:25]

I remember I had the pipe because my mom found it[00:04:28]

my room that night and accused me,[00:04:32]

thinking it was a pot pipe. [00:04:35]

And so we got in a big argument about it[00:04:37]

and my roommate decided to solve the argument [00:04:41]

by taking out this two-foot water pipe [00:04:43]

that he had in a locked box in the living room [00:04:47]

and comparing it, to show that in fact, [00:04:50]

that was not a pot pipe. [00:04:53]

It went well, yeah, it went very well.[00:04:56]

So I have no actual memory of sitting here [00:05:00]

in a funny hat listening to a speaker, [00:05:07]

which I actually find calming because, [00:05:09]

frankly, it doesn’t matter what I say, [00:05:13]

because you all are not going to remember this by, [00:05:16]

you know, tomorrow.[00:05:20]

But your parents are going to remember this[00:05:22]

because they paid through their noses for it, [00:05:25]

so I will try to make it memorable for them, [00:05:29]

if for no one else. I do remember Commencement ceremony:[00:05:32]

I remember the cap and gown, the polyester,[00:05:37]

I remember the procession,[00:05:41]

I remember being excited and nervous [00:05:44]

and completely confused about my future -[00:05:47]

feelings, I imagine, that most of you[00:05:49]

are experiencing in some form. [00:05:53]

When I graduated, when I was sitting here I imagine,[00:05:55]

I hadn’t actually applied for any jobs [00:06:00]

and I really had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.[00:06:03]

Yeah, that’s right. [00:06:07]

Raise your hand if you’re in that position.[00:06:09]

I remember asking my mom for advice, [00:06:12]

something I rarely did growing up [00:06:16]

because my mom is not the most practical person on the planet. [00:06:19]

The last time I’d done that was in middle school,[00:06:24]

when I was having problems in math class [00:06:27]

and I asked her for some advice [00:06:30]

and she told me to wear vertical stripes[00:06:33]

because they’re slimming. [00:06:36]

I didn’t know what that meant.[00:06:38]

But her advice to me at Yale graduation was “Follow your bliss” . [00:06:40]

I was hoping for something a little more specific, [00:06:48]

like plastics. What, plastic? You like plastic? All right. [00:06:51]

But in retrospect, follow your bliss was pretty good advice.[00:06:59]

My mom didn’t actually coin the phrase -[00:07:04]

actually it was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College[00:07:07]

named Joseph Campbell who did - [00:07:11]

and my mom had seen a taped interview on TV.[00:07:13]

It kind of shows you our relationship - [00:07:16]

she was giving advice she had gotten off of television.[00:07:20]

I’m thankful she wasn’t watching Montel Williams or something,[00:07:24]

or Fox News. I kid, because they have huge ratings. They kill me. [00:07:29]

The problem, of course, [00:07:37]

with follow your bliss (and I actually think that’s pretty good advice), [00:07:40]

but the problem with follow your bliss [00:07:44]

is actually trying to figure out what your bliss is,[00:07:47]

and that’s not an easy thing to do.[00:07:51]

Like many of you, I have a liberal arts degree,[00:07:54]

which is to say, I have no actual skill. [00:07:58]

And I majored in political science.[00:08:02]

You’re excited about it now, [00:08:04]

but believe me, it doesn’t go very far. [00:08:07]

It means you can read a newspaper, [00:08:13]

but other than that, I’m not really sure what else.[00:08:14]

I also focused a lot of my studies on communism, [00:08:17]

which when the Berlin Wall fell, [00:08:22]

I was totally screwed. I know,[00:08:25]

it was a happy occasion for a lot of people,[00:08:28]

but believe me, on this campus,[00:08:30]

believe me, all of the Russian studies majors[00:08:33]

were very down in the dumps.[00:08:36]

The one thing I knew I liked was television [00:08:39]

and particularly television news.[00:08:42]

I watched a lot of it growing up so I figured okay,[00:08:45]

I’ve got a Yale degree, I’ll go give that a shot,[00:08:49]

I’ll apply for an entry-level job at ABC News,[00:08:54]

a gopher position. Like I’m totally qualified for this:[00:08:58]

answering phones, I’ll go do whatever Peter Jennings wants.[00:09:03]

I could not get this job. It took six months; [00:09:07]

they strung me along; I did interviews. [00:09:11]

I could not get the job,[00:09:14]

which shows you the value of a Yale education.[00:09:19]

But it actually was the best thing[00:09:22]

that ever happened to me.[00:09:24]

I decided that if no one would give me a chance,[00:09:25]

I’d have to take a chance,[00:09:28]

and if no one would give me an opportunity, [00:09:33]

I would have to create my own opportunity.[00:09:33]

So I came up with this plan to become a reporter.[00:09:36]

I figured if I went places[00:09:41]

where there weren’t many Americans,[00:09:43]

I wouldn’t have much competition.[00:09:45]

So I decided to start going to wars,[00:09:47]

which my mom was thrilled about.[00:09:51]

It was a very simple plan, but it was moronic,[00:09:53]

but it actually worked.[00:09:58]

I made a fake press pass on a Macintosh computer - [00:10:00]

actually, I didn’t even make it to be honest,[00:10:04]

a friend of mine made it because I’m computer illiterate - [00:10:07]

and I got a home video camera[00:10:11]

that I borrowed and I just decided to go to wars. [00:10:14]

I snuck into Burma and hooked up with some students[00:10:17]

fighting the Burmese government [00:10:23]

and moved into Somalia in the early days of the famine.[00:10:24]

I spent really the next two years going[00:10:28]

from one war-torn country to another: [00:10:32]

Bosnia, South Africa for Mandela’s election.[00:10:34]

I was in Rwanda for the genocide,[00:10:37]

which makes ultimately doing “The Mole” a natural step, [00:10:40]

as you can see where I’m going.[00:10:45]

I may have gone to school at Yale,[00:10:47]

but I always think that in many ways [00:10:52]

I was educated on the streets of Johannesburg,[00:10:52]

in Kigali, in Sarajevo, in Port-Au-Prince.[00:10:56]

And I’ve learned when you go to the edges of the world,[00:10:59]

where the boundaries aren’t clear, [00:11:03]

where the dark parts of the human heart [00:11:05]

are open for all to see, [00:11:07]

you learn things about yourself [00:11:08]

and you learn things about your fellow human beings[00:11:11]

and what we’re all capable of. [00:11:14]

We’re capable, really, of anything, [00:11:17]

great acts of compassion and dignity, [00:11:20]

as we saw in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.[00:11:23]

We’re also capable of great acts of cowardice[00:11:26]

and brutality and stupidity,[00:11:30]

which we also saw in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.[00:11:32]

The funny thing is that just two years after doing this,[00:11:36]

of going on my own and going into wars,[00:11:41]

ABC News called me up and offered me a job as a correspondent. [00:11:45]

I was just about 27; [00:11:51]

I was the youngest correspondent they hired [00:11:53]

since they hired Jennings and Koppel years ago.[00:11:57]

For me, it was a lesson: two years [00:12:00]

before I tried to get an entry-level job[00:12:03]

and I thought that was the path, [00:12:06]

because that was the path that everyone took.[00:12:09]

And had I gotten that job there was no way [00:12:12]

I would have had the opportunities that I had;[00:12:16]

there was no way I would have seen [00:12:19]

the things I’ve been able to see.[00:12:22]

When I was graduating and trying to decide[00:12:23]

what to do with my life, I really felt paralyzed[00:12:29]

because I thought I had to figure it out all it once.[00:12:33]

I had to pick a career and start down a path [00:12:38]

that I’d be on for the rest of my life. [00:12:41]

I now know that it totally doesn’t work that way.[00:12:43]

It certainly didn’t for me.[00:12:48]

Everyone I know who’s successful, [00:12:50]

professionally and personally, [00:12:52]

could never have predicted [00:12:55]

when they graduated from college where they’d actually end up.[00:12:57]

My friends from Yale who are happiest[00:13:01]

are the ones who thought less of [00:13:04]

where they’d be in 10 years and what steps [00:13:06]

they’d have to do now in order to[00:13:09]

make partner 10 years from now in a law firm [00:13:11]

or build their 401K. My friends who are happiest now [00:13:14]

are the ones who kept taking steps based [00:13:21]

on what they felt right and what felt [00:13:23]

like them at the moment.[00:13:26]

If I had gotten that job on the set of ABC News [00:13:28]

there’s no telling where I’d be now.[00:13:32]

When I started going to wars I had no clear goal in mind. [00:13:36]

There was no path that promised me success or job security. [00:13:41]

But I was listening really to myself [00:13:48]

and followed my passion, [00:13:51]

and I’m more convinced than ever that if you do that,[00:13:53]

you will be successful. I’m not talking about rich - [00:13:56]

perhaps you will be - but you’ll be fulfilled, [00:14:01]

and that’s the greatest success you can have.[00:14:04]

I always wince … [00:14:07]

I’m kind of rushing because I see the skies darkening,[00:14:11]

which frankly happens wherever I go,[00:14:14]

so if I whip out my rain slicker,[00:14:17]

you all are totally screwed. [00:14:20]

I always wince when someone says [00:14:22]

that college is the best four years of your life, [00:14:26]

because, frankly, for me it wasn’t.[00:14:30]

I hope it’s not for you either.[00:14:34]

Every year after college just gets better. [00:14:36]

Your confidence grows;[00:14:40]

you’re living the life that you’ve chosen.[00:14:41]

It’s so interesting to me [00:14:44]

how real life has very little to do with[00:14:47]

what you’ve learned here, and yet, [00:14:49]

what you’ve learned here, [00:14:52]

what you’ve struggled to achieve,[00:14:54]

will help you. I can’t exactly say how: [00:14:55]

it’s not something that can necessarily be defined.[00:14:59]

When I first went to war in Somalia[00:15:03]

I was surrounded by teenagers with guns and grenade launchers,[00:15:06]

there was nothing particular [00:15:11]

that I’ve learned at Yale that allowed me to survive.[00:15:13]

When I was in Rwanda in the genocide[00:15:16]

and was surrounded by bodies [00:15:19]

and had seen terrible things,[00:15:22]

there was no one particular class [00:15:24]

that I’ve taken that helped me get through.[00:15:27]

And yet something about the experience here -[00:15:29]

the friendships, the accumulating of facts and theories,[00:15:33]

the confidence I gained over the course of four years -[00:15:37]

allowed me to go to those places[00:15:40]

and helped me chart my own course.[00:15:43]

At Yale I met some of the smartest people I know[00:15:45]

but that kind of academic success really means[00:15:52]

very little once you’ve left this campus.[00:15:55]

I’ve never been asked what my grades were at Yale; [00:15:58]

that only happens if you run for president,[00:16:03]

and frankly, as we’ve all seen, it doesn’t even matter.[00:16:05]

No one has ever asked me to talk about[00:16:09]

my senior thesis paper and I’ve never gotten a job[00:16:13]

because I was on the lightweight crew team. [00:16:17]

All those things were hugely important to me at the time,[00:16:19]

but right now, in truth, they are kind of dim memories for me.[00:16:24]

And I’m not saying they’re frivolous or unimportant,[00:16:29]

they’re not, and I treasure[00:16:33]

all the opportunities I had here at Yale.[00:16:36]

But when you graduate, [00:16:38]

the slate is wiped clean. [00:16:43]

Outside of college campuses, [00:16:45]

I think we’re encouraged today to see things through[00:16:48]

a very limited lens. On cable news, [00:16:52]

anchors have become caricatures, [00:16:55]

wearing their politics on their sleeves or their lapels, [00:16:57]

claiming that they’re looking out for you [00:17:01]

and if you only watch their show[00:17:04]

or read their book, you’ll be able to understand [00:17:07]

how things really are.[00:17:10]

It would be kind of humorous if it weren’t, [00:17:12]

frankly, dangerous. On reality TV shows[00:17:16]

you watch people swapping lives, [00:17:20]

but a genuine swapping of ideas [00:17:22]

is something you rarely see outside of the college campus.[00:17:25]

We’re fighting not just a war of terror [00:17:29]

but a war of ideas, and I think it’s important[00:17:32]

that as a class, we all understand the importance [00:17:37]

of understanding other people’s ideas, [00:17:40]

our enemies’ as well as our friends’.[00:17:43]

I’m not very good at giving advice.[00:17:46]

We all know that’s Bill O’Reilly’s job [00:17:51]

and he does it very well.[00:17:55]

I actually Googled graduation speeches to see[00:17:57]

what kind of advice other people give[00:18:01]

at these kind of things, and believe me, [00:18:03]

they are incredibly cheesy. [00:18:06]

Goldie Hawn told graduates at AU, and I quote,[00:18:08]

“While you are continuing to walk down [00:18:13]

that sometimes bumpy road of life, [00:18:18]

develop the art of laughter and joy. [00:18:19]

Keep in your backpack of treasures the whole you, [00:18:22]

the best you, the you that won’t fear failure.”[00:18:25]

Yeah, think about it. Think about it. [00:18:30]

Backpack of treasures. Very true.[00:18:34]

Yoko Ono gave a commencement speech[00:18:38]

(she didn’t sing it, she actually talked at it.)[00:18:41]

She said: “I say you can’t stand if you’ve got[00:18:45]

too much muck in your head. Let it go, [00:18:50]

and dance through life.”[00:18:54]

So true, so much muck, you know?[00:18:55]

Muck is a big problem.[00:18:59]

Of course, it’s easier to dance through life[00:19:01]

if you have a billion dollars, but I digress. [00:19:05]

Since my mom gave me advice from television, [00:19:10]

I’m actually going to give you advice from a movie,[00:19:15]

because that’s the best I could come up with, frankly. [00:19:19]

It’s one of my favorite movies: “Lawrence of Arabia.”[00:19:22]

It’s a cool movie, I know. There’s a line in it[00:19:25]

where Lawrence says, “Nothing is written.”[00:19:31]

And for you, I think, on this day, at this moment in your lives, [00:19:35]

I think that is especially true. Nothing is written.[00:19:39]

You’ve been taught how to write for yourselves. [00:19:45]

This weekend, the slate is wiped clean.[00:19:48]

There are no words that you have to use.[00:19:52]

There are no sentences you must complete. [00:19:55]

You stand before a field of freshly fallen snow;[00:19:58]

there are no footprints that you have to follow.[00:20:02]

Nothing is written. And I hope you know [00:20:06]

that it is truly a rare and wonderful place to be.[00:20:10]

Congratulations, Class of 2006. You deserve it. [00:20:14]