Steve Jobs 05年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮的演講詞

第一篇：Steve Jobs 05年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮的演講詞

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.I never graduated from college.Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's it.No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born.My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic.I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma,whatever.This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 company with over 4000 employees.We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you get 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 entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.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 pancreas.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 everything 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 diagnosis 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 closest 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 people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.And yet death is the destination we all share.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 quite 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 other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of others' 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 truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, 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 in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several 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 photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off.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.Thank you all very much.（斯坦福）是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一，今天能參加各位的畢業(yè)典禮，我備感榮幸。（尖叫聲）我從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，說句實話，此時算是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一刻。（笑聲）今天，我想告訴你們我生命中的三個故事，并非什么了不得的大事件，只是三個小故事而已。

第一個故事，是關(guān)于串起生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴。

我在里德大學(xué)呆了6個月就退學(xué)了，但之后仍作為旁聽生混了18個月后才最終離開。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？

故事要從我出生之前開始說起。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚媽媽，當(dāng)時她還是一所大學(xué)的在讀研究生，于是決定把我送給其他人收養(yǎng)。她堅持我應(yīng)該被一對念過大學(xué)的夫婦收養(yǎng)，所以在我出生的時候，她已經(jīng)為我被一個律師和他的太太收養(yǎng)做好了所有的準(zhǔn)備。但在最后一刻，這對夫婦改了主意，決定收養(yǎng)一個女孩。侯選名單上的另外一對夫婦，也就是我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天午夜接到了一通電話：“我們有了一個意料之外的男孩，你們是否想收養(yǎng)？”他們回答：“當(dāng)然想。”事后，我的生母才發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母根本就沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，而我的養(yǎng)父甚至連高中都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕簽署最后的收

養(yǎng)文件，直到幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會把我送到大學(xué)，她的態(tài)度才有所轉(zhuǎn)變。

17年之后，我真上了大學(xué)。但因為年幼無知，我選擇了一所和斯坦福一樣昂貴的大學(xué)，（笑聲）我的父母都是工人階級，他們傾其所有資助我的學(xué)業(yè)。在6個月之后，我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己完全不知道這樣念下去究竟有什么用。當(dāng)時，我的人生漫無目標(biāo)，也不知道大學(xué)對我能起到什么幫助，為了念書，還花光了父母畢生的積蓄，所以我決定退學(xué)。我相信車到山前必有路。當(dāng)時作這個決定的時候非常害怕，但現(xiàn)在回頭去看，這是我這一生所作出的最正確的決定之一。（笑聲）從我退學(xué)那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些我毫無興趣的必修課了，我開始旁聽那些看來比較有意思的科目。

這件事情做起來一點(diǎn)都不浪漫。因為沒有自己的宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房間的地板上；可樂瓶的押金是5分錢，我把瓶子還回去好用押金買吃的；在每個周日的晚上，我都會步行7英里穿越市區(qū)，到Hare Krishna教堂吃一頓大餐，我喜歡那兒的食物。我跟隨好奇心和直覺所做的事情，事后證明大多數(shù)都是極其珍貴的經(jīng)驗。

我舉一個例子：那個時候，里德大學(xué)提供了全美國最好的書法教育。整個校園的每一張海報，每一個抽屜上的標(biāo)簽，都是漂亮的手寫體。由于已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用再去上那些常規(guī)的課程，于是我選擇了一個書法班，想學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫出一手漂亮字。在這個班上，我學(xué)習(xí)了各種襯線和無襯線字體，如何改變不同字體組合之間的字間距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。那是一種科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)無法捕捉的充滿美感、歷史感和藝術(shù)感的微妙，我發(fā)現(xiàn)這太有意思了。

當(dāng)時，我壓根兒沒想到這些知識會在我的生命中有什么實際運(yùn)用價值；但是10年之后，當(dāng)我們的設(shè)計第一款Macintosh電腦的候，這些東西全派上了用場。我把它們?nèi)吭O(shè)計進(jìn)了 Mac，這是第一臺可以排出好看版式的電腦。如果當(dāng)時我大學(xué)里沒有旁聽這門課程的話，Mac就不會提供各種字體和等間距字體。自從視窗系統(tǒng)抄襲了Mac以后，（鼓掌大笑）所有的個人電腦都有了這些東西。如果我沒有退學(xué)，我就不會去書法班旁聽，而今天的個人電腦大概也就不會有出色的版式功能。當(dāng)然我在念大學(xué)的那會兒，不可能有先見之明，把那些生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴都串起來；但10年之后再回頭看，生命的軌跡變得非常清楚。

再強(qiáng)調(diào)一次，你不可能充滿預(yù)見地將生命的點(diǎn)滴串聯(lián)起來；只有在你回頭看的時候，你才會發(fā)現(xiàn)這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴之間的聯(lián)系。所以，你要堅信，你現(xiàn)在所經(jīng)歷的將在你未來的生命中串聯(lián)起來。你不得不相信某些東西，你的直覺，命運(yùn)，生活，因緣際會……正是這種信仰讓我不會失去希望，它讓我的人生變得與眾不同。

我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛與失去。

我是幸運(yùn)的，在年輕的時候就知道了自己愛做什么。在我20歲的時候，就和沃茲在我父母的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果電腦公司。我們勤奮工作，只用了10年的時間，蘋果電腦就從車庫里的兩個小伙子擴(kuò)展成擁有4000名員工，價值達(dá)到20億美元的企業(yè)。而在此之前的一年，我們剛推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品Macintosh電腦，當(dāng)時我剛過而立之年。然后，我就被炒了魷魚。一個人怎么可以被他所創(chuàng)立的公司解雇呢？（笑聲）這么說吧，隨著蘋果的成長，我們請了一個原本以為很能干的家伙和我一起管理這家公司，在頭一年左右，他干得還不錯，但后來，我們對公司未來的前景出現(xiàn)了分歧，于是我們之間出現(xiàn)了矛盾。由于公司的董事會站在他那一邊，所以在我30歲的時候，就被踢出了局。我失去了一直貫穿在我整個成年生活的重心，打擊是毀滅性的。

在頭幾個月，我真不知道要做些什么。我覺得我讓企業(yè)界的前輩們失望了，我失去了傳到我手上的指揮棒。我遇到了戴維·帕卡德（普惠的創(chuàng)辦人之一——譯注）和鮑勃·諾伊斯（英特爾的創(chuàng)辦人之一——譯注），我向他們道歉，因為我把事情搞砸了。我成了人人皆知的失敗者，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。但曙光漸漸出現(xiàn)，我還是喜歡我做過的事情。在蘋果電腦發(fā)生的一切絲毫沒有改變我，一個比特（bit）都沒有。雖然被拋棄了，但我的熱忱不改。我決定重新開始。我當(dāng)時沒有看出來，但事實證明，我被蘋果開掉是我這一生所經(jīng)歷過的最棒的事情。成功的沉重被鳳凰涅槃的輕盈所代替，每件事情都不再那么確定，我以自由之軀進(jìn)入了我整個生命當(dāng)中最有創(chuàng)意的時期。

在接下來的5年里，我開創(chuàng)了一家叫做NeXT的公司，接著是一家名叫Pixar的公司，并且接識了后來成為我妻子的曼妙女郎。Pixar制作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影《玩具總動員》，現(xiàn)在這家公司是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司之一。（掌聲）后來經(jīng)歷一系列的事件，蘋果買下了NeXT，于是我又回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT研發(fā)出的技術(shù)在推動蘋果復(fù)興的核心動力。我和勞倫斯也擁有了美滿的家庭。

我非?？隙ǎ绻麤]有被蘋果炒掉，這一切都不可能在我身上發(fā)生。對于病人來說，良藥總是苦口。生活有時候就像一塊板磚拍向你的腦袋，但不要喪失信心。熱愛我所從事的工作，是一直支持我不斷前進(jìn)的惟一理由。你得找出你的最愛，對工作如此，對愛人亦是如此。工作將占據(jù)你生命中相當(dāng)大的一部分，從事你認(rèn)為具有非凡意義的工作，方能給你帶來真正的滿足感。而從事一份偉大工作的惟一方法，就是去熱愛這份工作。如果你到現(xiàn)在還沒有找到這樣一份工

作，那么就繼續(xù)找。不要安于現(xiàn)狀，當(dāng)萬事了于心的時候，你就會知道何時能找到。如同任何偉大的浪漫關(guān)系一樣，偉大的工作只會在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。所以，在你終有所獲之前，不要停下你尋覓的腳步。不要停下。

第三個故事是關(guān)于死亡。

在17 歲的時候，我讀過一句格言，好像是：“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)成你生命里的最后一天，你將在某一天發(fā)現(xiàn)原來一切皆在掌握之中?！保ㄐβ暎┻@句話從我讀到之日起，就對我產(chǎn)生了深遠(yuǎn)的影響。在過去的33年里，我每天早晨都對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的末日，我還愿意做我今天本來應(yīng)該做的事情嗎？” 當(dāng)一連好多天答案都否定的時候，我就知道做出改變的時候到了。

提醒自己行將入土是我在面臨人生中的重大抉擇時，最為重要的工具。

因為所有的事情——外界的期望、所有的尊榮、對尷尬和失敗的懼怕——在面對死亡的時候，都將煙消云散，只留下真正重要的東西。在我所知道的各種方法中，提醒自己即將死去是避免掉入畏懼失去這個陷阱的最好辦法。人赤條條地來，赤條條地走，沒有理由不聽從你內(nèi)心的呼喚。

大約一年前，我被診斷出癌癥。在早晨7：30我做了一個檢查，掃描結(jié)果清楚地顯示我的胰臟出現(xiàn)了一個腫瘤。我當(dāng)時甚至不知道胰臟究竟是什么。醫(yī)生告訴我，幾乎可以確定這是一種不治之癥，頂多還能活3至6個月。大夫建議我回家，把諸事安排妥當(dāng)，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)用語。這意味著你得把你今后10年要對你的子女說的話用幾個月的時間說完；這意味著你得把一切都安排妥當(dāng)，盡可能減少你的家人在你身后的負(fù)擔(dān)；這意味著向眾人告別的時間到了。

我整天都想著診斷結(jié)果。那天晚上做了一個切片檢查，醫(yī)生把一個內(nèi)診鏡從我的喉管伸進(jìn)去，穿過我的胃進(jìn)入腸道，將探針伸進(jìn)胰臟，從腫瘤上取出了幾個細(xì)胞。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，但我的太太當(dāng)時在場，她后來告訴我說，當(dāng)大夫們從顯微鏡下觀察了細(xì)胞組織之后，都哭了起來，因為那是一非常罕見的，可以通過手術(shù)治療的胰臟癌。我接受了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)康復(fù)了。

這是我最接近死亡的一次，我希望在隨后的幾十年里，都不要有比這一次更接近死亡的經(jīng)歷。在經(jīng)歷了這次與死神擦肩而過的經(jīng)驗之后，死亡對我來說只是一項有效的判斷工具，并且只是一個純粹的理性概念時相比，我能夠更肯定地告訴你們以下事實：沒人想死；即使想去天堂的人，也是希望能活著進(jìn)去。（笑聲）死亡是我們每個人的人生終點(diǎn)站，沒人能夠成為例外。生命就是如此，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的造物，它是生命更迭的媒介，送走耋耄老者，給新生代讓路?，F(xiàn)在你們還是新生代，但不久的將來你們也將逐漸老去，被送出人生的舞臺。很抱歉說得這么富有戲劇性，但生命就是如此。

你們的時間有限，所以不要把時間浪費(fèi)在別人的生活里。不要被條條框框束縛，否則你就生活在他人思考的結(jié)果里。不要讓他人的觀點(diǎn)所發(fā)出的噪音淹沒你內(nèi)心的聲音。最為重要的是，要有遵從你的內(nèi)心和直覺的勇氣，它們可能已知道你其實想成為一個什么樣的人。其他事物都是次要的。

在我年輕的時候，有一本非常棒的雜志叫《全球目錄》（The Whole Earth Catalog），它被我們那一代人奉為圭臬。這本雜志的創(chuàng)辦人是一個叫斯圖爾特·布蘭德的家伙，他住在Menlo Park，距離這兒不遠(yuǎn)。他把這本雜志辦得充滿詩意。那是在60年代末期，個人電腦、桌面發(fā)排系統(tǒng)還沒有出現(xiàn)，所以出版工具只有打字機(jī)、剪刀和寶麗來相機(jī)。這本雜志有點(diǎn)像印在紙上的Google，但那是在Google出現(xiàn)的35年前；它充滿了理想色彩，內(nèi)容都是些非常好用的工具和了不起的見解。

斯圖爾特和他的團(tuán)隊做了幾期《全球目錄》，快無疾而終的時候，他們出版了最后一期。那是在70年代中期，我當(dāng)時處在你們現(xiàn)在的年齡。在最后一期的封底有一張清晨鄉(xiāng)間公路的照片，如果你喜歡搭車冒險旅行的話，經(jīng)常會碰到的那種小路。在照片下面有一排字：物有所不足，智有所不明（Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.）這是他們?？母鎰e留言。物有所不足，智有所不明。我總是以此自詡?，F(xiàn)在，在你們畢業(yè)開始新生活的時候，我把這句話送給你們。

第二篇：Steve Jobs 05年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮的演講詞

Steve Jobs 05年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮的演講詞

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.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 company with over 4000 employees.We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you get 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 entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.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 pancreas.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 everything 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 diagnosis 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 closest 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:

第一個故事，是關(guān)于串起生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴。

我在里德大學(xué)呆了6個月就退學(xué)了，但之后仍作為旁聽生混了18個月后才最終離開。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？

故事要從我出生之前開始說起。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚媽媽，當(dāng)時她還是一所大學(xué)的在讀研究生，于是決定把我送給其他人收養(yǎng)。她堅持我應(yīng)該被一對念過大學(xué)的夫婦收養(yǎng)，所以在我出生的時候，她已經(jīng)為我被一個律師和他的太太收養(yǎng)做好了所有的準(zhǔn)備。但在最后一刻，這對夫婦改了主意，決定收養(yǎng)一個女孩。侯選名單上的另外一對夫婦，也就是我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天午夜接到了一通電話：“我們有了一個意料之外的男孩，你們是否想收養(yǎng)？”他們回答：“當(dāng)然想?！笔潞?，我的生母才發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母根本就沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，而我的養(yǎng)父甚至連高中都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕簽署最后的收養(yǎng)文件，直到幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會把我送到大學(xué)，她的態(tài)度才有所轉(zhuǎn)變。

我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛與失去。

我當(dāng)時沒有看出來，但事實證明，我被蘋果開掉是我這一生所經(jīng)歷過的最棒的事情。成功的沉重被鳳凰涅槃的輕盈所代替，每件事情都不再那么確定，我以自由之軀進(jìn)入了我整個生命當(dāng)中最有創(chuàng)意的時期。

我非?？隙?，如果沒有被蘋果炒掉，這一切都不可能在我身上發(fā)生。對于病人來說，良藥總是苦口。生活有時候就像一塊板磚拍向你的腦袋，但不要喪失信心。熱愛我所從事的工作，是一直支持我不斷前進(jìn)的惟一理由。你得找出你的最愛，對工作如此，對愛人亦是如此。工作將占據(jù)你生命中相當(dāng)大的一部分，從事你認(rèn)為具有非凡意義的工作，方能給你帶來真正的滿足感。而從事一份偉大工作的惟一方法，就是去熱愛這份工作。如果你到現(xiàn)在還沒有找到這樣一份工作，那么就繼續(xù)找。不要安于現(xiàn)狀，當(dāng)萬事了于心的時候，你就會知道何時能找到。如同任何偉大的浪漫關(guān)系一樣，偉大的工作只會在歲月的醞釀中越陳越香。所以，在你終有所獲之前，不要停下你尋覓的腳步。不要停下。

第三個故事是關(guān)于死亡。

在17 歲的時候，我讀過一句格言，好像是：“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)成你生命里的最后一天，你將在某一天發(fā)現(xiàn)原來一切皆在掌握之中。”（笑聲）這句話從我讀到之日起，就對我產(chǎn)生了深遠(yuǎn)的影響。在過去的33年里，我每天早晨都對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的末日，我還愿意做我今天本來應(yīng)該做的事情嗎？” 當(dāng)一連好多天答案都否定的時候，我就知道做出改變的時候到了。

提醒自己行將入土是我在面臨人生中的重大抉擇時，最為重要的工具。

物有所不足，智有所不明。我總是以此自詡?，F(xiàn)在，在你們畢業(yè)開始新生活的時候，我把這句話送給你們。

第三篇：喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮演講稿

喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮演講稿

i am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.truth be told, i never graduated from college.and this is the closest i’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.today i want to tell you three stories from my life.that’s it.no big deal.just three stories.今天，我很榮幸能和你們一起參加畢業(yè)典禮，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一，喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮演講稿。說實話，(雖然)我從來沒有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)，但今天是我生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事。不說大道理，就是三個故事而已。

the first story is about connecting the dots.第一個故事是關(guān)于如何把生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來。

i dropped out of reed college after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before i really quit.so why did i drop out?

我在里德學(xué)院讀了六個月之后就退學(xué)了，但是在十八個月以后，我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。我為什么要退學(xué)呢?

it started before i was born.my biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.she felt very strongly that i should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.except that when i popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.so my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “we have an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?” they said: “of course.” my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.she refused to sign the final adoption papers.she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that i would someday go to college.this was the start in my life.故事要從我的出生說起。我的親生母親是一名年輕未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我，她十分想讓大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)我。所以在我出生前，她已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備一切，讓一位律師和他的妻子收養(yǎng)。但是她沒有料到，在我出生后，律師夫婦突然決定要一個女孩。所以，我的養(yǎng)父養(yǎng)母(他們當(dāng)時還在候選名單上)突然在半夜接到了一個電話：“我們有一個意外降生的男嬰，你們想收養(yǎng)他嗎?”他們回答說： “當(dāng)然!” 但是我親生母親隨后發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母從未上過大學(xué)，我的養(yǎng)父高中沒畢業(yè)。于是她拒絕簽訂收養(yǎng)合同。但在幾個月以后，因為我的養(yǎng)父養(yǎng)母答應(yīng)她一定要讓我上大學(xué)，她才心軟同意了。

and 17 years later i did go to college.but i naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition.after six months, i couldn’t see the value in it.i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.and here i was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.so i decided to drop out and would all work out ok.it was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions i ever made.the minute i dropped out i could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.在十七歲那年，我的確上大學(xué)了。但我天真地選擇了一個幾乎和斯坦福大學(xué)一樣貴的學(xué)校，我父母還處于工薪階層，為了交學(xué)費(fèi)，他們幾乎耗光所有積蓄。六個月后，我?guī)缀蹩床坏皆趯W(xué)校的價值。我不知道(我生命中)要追求什么，我也不知道學(xué)校是否能幫我找到答案。但在學(xué)校，我將花光我父母這一輩子的積蓄。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且我相信車到山前必有路。(不可否認(rèn))，我當(dāng)時非常害怕，但現(xiàn)在回頭來看，這個決定是我一生中最明智決定之一。在我做出退學(xué)決定后，我再也不用去上那些我絲毫沒有興趣的必修課，我開始去聽那些看起來有趣的課程。

it wasn’t all romantic.i didn’t have a dorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, i returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and i would walk the 7 miles across town every sunday night to get one good meal a week at the hare krishna temple.i loved it.and much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.let me give you one example:

這一點(diǎn)也不羅曼蒂克。沒了宿舍，所以我要到朋友家睡地板;為了填飽肚子，我撿過值5美分的可樂罐;為了每周一頓的好一點(diǎn)的飯，每個星期天晚上，我穿街過巷，步行7英里到hare krishna教堂。我喜歡那里的飯菜。在好奇和直覺的引導(dǎo)下，我跌跌撞撞地遇到很多東西，這些后來被證明是無價瑰寶。我給你們舉一個例子吧：

reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.because i had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and i found it fascinating.那時候，里德學(xué)院的書法課程也許是全美最好的。學(xué)校里的每個海報，抽屜上的每個標(biāo)簽，上面全都是漂亮的書法。因為我退學(xué)了，沒有了正常的課程，所以我決定去上/書法課，去學(xué)學(xué)怎樣寫出漂亮的字。我學(xué)到了san serif 和serif字體，我學(xué)會了怎么樣在不同的字母組合之中變化間距，還有怎么樣做最好的版式。那種美感、真實感和藝術(shù)感，是科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)不能捕捉到的，(我發(fā)現(xiàn))那實在是太迷人了。

none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.but ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it all came back to me.and we designed it all into the mac.it was the first computer with beautiful typography.if i had never dropped in on that single course in college, the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.and since windows just copied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was in college.but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.當(dāng)時這些東西似乎在我生命中沒什么可用之處。但十年之后，當(dāng)我們在設(shè)計第一臺macintosh計算機(jī)的時候，就全部派上用場。我把當(dāng)時我學(xué)的那些東西全都融入到mac。那是擁有漂亮字體的第一臺計算機(jī)。如果我當(dāng)時沒有退學(xué)，我沒機(jī)會沉迷于書法課程，mac就不會有種類繁多或的行距整齊的字體。如果windows沒有抄襲mac，個人電腦很可能就不會這么多字體。如果我沒有退學(xué)，我不會沉迷于書法課程，個人電腦很可能就不會這么多字體。當(dāng)然了，我在學(xué)校的時候不可能把這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴提前串連起來。但在十年之后回顧過去，這些東西歷歷在目。

again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.you have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.this approach has never let me down, and it would made all the difference.再說一次，你不可能把這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴提前串連起來;你只能在回顧的時候把它們串連起來。所以你必須相信這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴是和你的未來項鏈的。你必須要相信某些東西：直覺、命運(yùn)、生命、因緣等等。這個方法從未讓我失望過，它讓我與眾不同。

my second story is about love and loss.我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛和失去。

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 company with over 4000 employees.we had just released our finest creation — the macintosh — a year earlier, and i had just turned 30.and then i got fired.how can you get 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.我非常幸運(yùn)，因為我在很早的時候就找到了我鐘愛的東西。我在二十歲的時候，沃茲和我在父母的車庫里面開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。我們努力工作，十年之后，蘋果從只有兩個的窮小子的車庫公司，發(fā)展到了員工超過四千名、市值超過二十億的大公司。在公司成立的第九年，我們剛剛發(fā)布了最好的產(chǎn)品——macintosh。我也快要到而立之年了。后來，我被炒魷魚了。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司炒了魷魚呢? 在蘋果快速成長的時候，我們雇用了一個很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個公司，在最初的幾年風(fēng)調(diào)雨順。但是后來我們對公司未來的看法有了分歧，最終我們吵了起來。當(dāng)吵的不可開交的時候，董事會站在了他的那一邊。所以在三十歲的時候，我被炒魷魚了。公開地把我掃地出門了。曾經(jīng)是我整個生命的中心已經(jīng)不再有了，這讓我不知所措。

i really didn’t know what to do for a few months.i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs 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.有幾個月，我真是不知道該做些什么，演講稿《喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮演講稿》。我覺得我很令上一代的企業(yè)家們很失望，因為我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我把事情搞砸了，我和(創(chuàng)辦hp的)david packard和(創(chuàng)辦intel的)bob noyce見面，并試圖向他們道歉。在公眾面前，我是個失敗者，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。但我后來慢慢看到了曙光，我仍然喜愛我從事的一切。在蘋果發(fā)生的**，并沒有絲毫改變這一點(diǎn)。雖然我被驅(qū)逐了，但是我仍然鐘愛我所做的事情。所以我決定從頭再來。

i didn’t see it then, but it 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 beginner again, less sure about everything.it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.我當(dāng)時沒有覺察，但是事后證明，被蘋果掃地出門是我這一生經(jīng)歷的最好的事。因為，作為一個創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松感覺重新替代作為一個成功者的負(fù)重感，不要把每件事情都看得那么重。它(掃地出門)把我釋放出來，讓我進(jìn)入了我生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個階段。

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.在接下來的五年里，我創(chuàng)立了一個名叫next的公司，還有一個叫pixar的公司，還有和一位魅力女士相識并相愛，她后來成為我的妻子。pixar 制作了全球第一部由電腦制作的動畫電影——“玩具總動員”，pixar現(xiàn)在也是全球上最成功的電腦制作工作室。在隨后一系列運(yùn)作中，蘋果收購了next，我重返蘋果。我們在next研發(fā)的技術(shù)是蘋果重?zé)ㄉ鷻C(jī)的關(guān)鍵。而且，我還和laurence共同建立了一個幸福完美的家庭。

i’m pretty sure none of this 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 as true for your work as it is for your lovers.your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly 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.and 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.don’t settle.如果蘋果沒有開除我的話，我可以非?？隙ǎ@其中的任何一件事情都不會發(fā)生的。雖然這劑良藥的味道非?？酀?，但我這個病人需要它。雖然命運(yùn)有時候會拿起板磚，猛拍你的腦袋。但你不要失去信仰。我很清楚，唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我鐘愛著我從事的事。你必須去找到你所鐘愛的東西。對于你的工作是如此，對于你的愛人亦如此。你的工作將會占據(jù)你的大部分生活時間，你惟一獲得成就感方法就是相信你從事工作是高尚的;做高尚工作的惟一方法就是鐘愛你的事業(yè)。如果你還沒有找到，那么你要繼續(xù)尋找，不要半途而廢。心中有信念，你就會找到的。而且，這和其他任何事情一樣，隨著歲月流逝，它會越來越好。所以，不要半途而廢，繼續(xù)尋找。

my third story is about death.我的第三個故事是關(guān)于死亡的。

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.在我十七歲的時候，我曾看過一句名言：“如果你把每一天看成是生命中的最后一天，那么有一天你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的。”這句話我印象頗深。從那時開始已有33年了，每個早晨，我都會對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，你會不會完成你今天想做的事情呢?”如果連續(xù)幾天的答案都是“不”的時候，我知道我要做些改變了。

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 truly important.remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.you are already naked.there is no reason not to follow your heart.謹(jǐn)記我隨時死去，這是我一生中遇到的最有幫助的工具，它幫我做出了生命中重要的抉擇。因為幾乎所有的事情，包括所有的榮譽(yù)、所有的驕傲、來自難堪和失敗所有的恐懼，這些在死亡面前統(tǒng)統(tǒng)消亡，剩下的愛是真正重要的東西。謹(jǐn)記我隨時死去，這是我所知道的，來避開將要失去的一些東西的陷阱的最好方法。人生不帶來，死不帶去，我們沒有理由不隨心而安。

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 pancreas.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 everything 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.大概一年以前，我被診斷出癌癥。早晨七點(diǎn)半，我做了一個檢查，檢查結(jié)果清楚地顯示我胰腺有一個腫瘤。我當(dāng)時甚至都不知道胰腺是什么東西。醫(yī)生告訴我這是很可能一種無法治愈的癌癥，我僅剩三到六個月的時間活在世上。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家打理后事，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)程序。這也就是說，我必須在短短幾個月之內(nèi)，要把未來十年對你小孩說的話全部交待完;這也就是說，我要把事情安排妥當(dāng)，讓你的家人會盡可能輕松的生活;這也就是說，我要和他們說“再見了”。

i lived with that diagnosis 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.我拿著那個診斷書過了一整天。那天晚上，我又作了一個活切片檢查，醫(yī)生把一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去，穿過我的胃，進(jìn)入我的腸道，在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上，用一根針取了一些細(xì)胞。我當(dāng)時打了麻醉/藥，不醒人事，但是我的妻子一直在那里。她后來告訴我，當(dāng)醫(yī)生在顯微鏡下觀察這些細(xì)胞，最后他們發(fā)現(xiàn)這些細(xì)胞竟然是一種非常罕見的可以用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌癥細(xì)胞，于是他們都大叫起來。我做了這個手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在我痊愈了。

this was the closest 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:

那是我和死神距離最近的一次，我也希望這是以后幾十年中的最近一次。以前我只把死亡看作是個概念，但經(jīng)歷此事后，我可以更肯定地對你們說：

no one wants to die.even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.and yet death is the destination we all share.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 quite true.沒人想死，即便人們想上天堂，也是想活著去那里。但是人必有一死，你我都無法逃脫。這也本該如此，因為“死亡”很可能就是“生命”中最杰出的發(fā)明。它是生命的輪回，它為新生事物清理道路。現(xiàn)在你們是新生的，但終有一天，你們將逐漸變老，直至謝幕。很抱歉，我講的這么戲劇化，但這就是現(xiàn)實。

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 other people’s thinking.don’t let the noise of others’ 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 truly want to become.everything else is secondary.人生有限，所以不要把時間浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)其他人的生活上;不要被教條束縛，那意味著你的思維和其他人沒什么不一樣;不要被其他人喧囂的觀點(diǎn)掩蓋你真正的內(nèi)心的聲音。還有最重要的是，你要有勇氣去跟隨你直覺和心靈，因為它們在某種程度上已經(jīng)知道你想要成為什么樣子。所有其他的事情都是次要的。

when i was young, there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog, 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 in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.it was sort of like google in paperback form, 35 years before google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.在我年輕的時候，有一本振聾發(fā)聵的雜志叫做《全球目錄》，它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。它是由一位叫stewart brand的家伙在離這里不遠(yuǎn)的門羅帕克主刊的，他神奇般地將這本書帶到了這個世界。那是六十年代后期，也就是在個人電腦出現(xiàn)之前，這本書完全是用靠打字機(jī)、剪刀還有偏光相機(jī)做出來的。它有點(diǎn)像用軟皮包裝的google，它比google早三十五年出現(xiàn)，它是理想主義的，其中包含了許多靈巧的工具和偉大的見解。

stewart and his team put out several 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 photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.beneath it were the words: “stay hungry.stay foolish.” it was their farewell message as they signed off.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.stewart和他的團(tuán)隊出版了幾期的《全球目錄》，當(dāng)它完成了自己使命的時候，他們發(fā)布了最后一期的。那是在七十年代的中期，我正好是你們這個的年紀(jì)。在最后一期的封底上，有一張鄉(xiāng)村公路清晨的照片(如果你有冒險精神的話，你可以自己找到這條路的)，在照片下方有這樣一句話：“求知若饑，虛心若愚。”這是他們停刊的告別語?！扒笾麴?，虛心若愚?！蔽铱偸窍Ｍ约耗軌蚰菢印，F(xiàn)在，在你們即將畢業(yè)，開始新的征程的時候，我也希望你們能這樣：

stay hungry.stay foolish.求知若饑，虛心若愚。

thank you all very much

非常感謝你們!

第四篇：奧普拉在斯坦福大學(xué)2008畢業(yè)典禮演講稿

脫口秀女王奧普拉在斯坦福大學(xué)2008畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

Thank you, President Hennessy, and to thetrustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the Stanford graduates.Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.Hennessy校長，全體教員，家長，還有斯坦福的畢業(yè)生門，非常感謝你們。感謝你們讓我和你們分享這美好的一天。

I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret.The secret is that Kirby Bumpus, Stanford Class of '08, is my goddaughter.So, I was thrilled when President Hennessy asked me to be your Commencement speaker, because this is the first time I've been allowed on campus since Kirby's been here.我決定透漏一個小秘密給大家來作為這次演講的開始。這個秘密就是Kirby Bumpus，斯坦福2008年的畢業(yè)生，是我的義女。所以當(dāng)Hennessy校長讓我來做演講時，我受寵若驚，因為自從Kirby來這上學(xué)以來，這是我第一次被允許到斯坦福來。

You see, Kirby's a very smart girl.She wants people to get to know her on her own terms, she says.Not in terms of who she knows.So, she never wants anyone who's first meeting her to know that I know her and she knows me.So, when she first came to Stanford for new student orientation with her mom, I hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming, and somebody came up to Kirby and they said, “Ohmigod, that's Gayle King!” Because a lot of people know Gayle King as my BFF [best friend forever].正如你們知道的那樣Kirby是一個非常聰明的女孩。她說，她希望大家通過她自己的努力了解她，而不是她認(rèn)識誰。因此她從來不希望每一個第一次見到她的人知道她認(rèn)識我。當(dāng)她和她媽媽第一次來到斯坦福參加開學(xué)典禮時，我聽說每個人都十分熱情。他們說：“我的天啊，那是Gayle King”。因為很多人都知道Gayle King是我最好的朋友。

And so somebody comes up to Kirby, and they say, “Ohmigod, is that Gayle King?” And Kirby's like, “Uh-huh.She's my mom.”And so the person says, “Ohmigod, does it mean, like, you know Oprah Winfrey?”And Kirby says, “Sort of.”

有些人走到Kirby面前，對Kirby說：“我的天啊，那是Gayle King嗎？”Kirby說：“嗯，她是我媽媽。”然后人們說：“我的天啊，難道說，你認(rèn)識Oprah Winfrey?！盞irby說：“有點(diǎn)吧。”

I said, “Sort of? You sort of know me?” Well, I have photographic proof.I have pictures which I can e-mail to you all of Kirby riding horsey with me on all fours.So, I more than sort-of know Kirby Bumpus.And I'm so happy to be here, just happy that I finally, after four years, get to see her room.There's really nowhere else I'd rather be, because I'm so proud of Kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in psychology.Love you, Kirby Cakes!That's how well I know her.I can call her Cakes.我說：“有一點(diǎn)。你有一點(diǎn)認(rèn)識我”。我還有照片為證。我可以把Kirby 和我騎馬時的照片e-mail給你們。因此我不僅僅只是有點(diǎn)認(rèn)識Kirby Bumpus。我非常高興來到這里，因為四年來我第一次來到她的寢室。我為Kirby感到自豪，因為她獲得了人類生物學(xué)和心理學(xué)的雙學(xué)位。這就是我多么的了解她。我可以叫她Cakes。

And so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, Will.I really had nothing to do with her graduating from Stanford, but every time anybody's asked me in the past couple of weeks what I was doing, I would say, “I'm getting ready to go to Stanford.” 我為她的父母感到驕傲，她的父母給了她很大幫助，還有她的哥哥Will。我對Kirby大學(xué)四年真的沒有什么幫助。但是在過去的幾周里，每當(dāng)人們問我在做什么時，我都會說：“我正準(zhǔn)備去斯坦?！?/p>

I just love saying “Stanford.” Because the truth is, I know I would have never gotten my degree at all, 'cause I didn't go to Stanford.I went to Tennessee State University.But I never would have gotten my diploma at all, because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but I was short one credit.And I figured, I'm just going to forget it, 'cause, you know, I'm not going to march with my class.Because by that point, I was already on television.I'd been in television since I was 19 and a sophomore.Granted, I was the only television anchor person that had an 11 o'clock curfew doing the 10 o'clock news.我就是喜歡這樣說Stanford（用一種奇怪的語調(diào)）。因為這是真的，我知道根本不會拿到我的學(xué)位，因為我沒有去斯坦福念書。我去了Tennessee 州立大學(xué)。但是我本來不會拿到我的畢業(yè)證，因為我本應(yīng)該在1975年畢業(yè)，但是我少了一個學(xué)分。我認(rèn)為我還是會忘了這件事。你們知道，我不會比得上我的同班同學(xué)。因為我已經(jīng)上了電視。我在19歲還是大學(xué)二年級的時候就已經(jīng)上了電視。我是唯一一個電視節(jié)目主持人，雖然有11點(diǎn)的宵禁，卻做著10點(diǎn)鐘的新聞。

Seriously, my dad was like, “Well, that news is over at 10:30.Be home by 11.” But that didn't matter to me, because I was earning a living.I was on my way.So, I thought, I'm going to let this college thing go and I only had one credit short.But, my father, from that time on and for years after, was always on my case, because I did not graduate.He'd say, “Oprah Gail”—that's my middle name—“I don't know what you're gonna do without that degree.” And I'd say, “But, Dad, I have my own television show.” 嚴(yán)肅地說，我爸爸告訴我，“好吧，新聞10：30結(jié)束。11點(diǎn)之前到家。”但是這對我并不重要，因為我已經(jīng)自食其力了。我在走我自己的路。所以我想，我不能讓關(guān)于我大學(xué)的那件事就這么過去，我還少一個學(xué)分。但是我的父親從那時起卻成了問題。由于我沒有畢業(yè)，他總是說：“Oprah Gail（我的中間名字），我不知道沒有學(xué)位你能做些什么?！比缓笪艺f：“但是，爸爸，我已經(jīng)有我自己的電視節(jié)目啦?！?/p>

And he'd say, “Well, I still don't know what you're going to do without that degree.” And I'd say, “But, Dad, now I'm a talk show host.” He'd say, “I don't know how you're going to get another job without that degree.”

他說：“好吧，但是我還是不知道沒有那個學(xué)位你能干什么?！蔽艺f：“但是，爸爸，現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)是脫口秀的主持人了”。他還是說：“我不知道沒有那個學(xué)位你怎么去找其他的工作。”

So, in 1987, Tennessee State University invited me back to speak at their commencement.By then, I had my own show, was nationally syndicated.I'd made a movie, had been nominated for an Oscar and founded my company, Harpo.But I told them, I cannot come and give a speech unless I can earn one more credit, because my dad's still saying I'm not going to get anywhere without that degree.在1987年，Tennessee州立大學(xué)邀請我回去做他們的畢業(yè)典禮演講。在那時，我已經(jīng)有了自己的電視節(jié)目，并加入了國家聯(lián)合會。我制作了一部電影，并被奧斯卡提名，而且成立了我自己的公司Harpo?？晌腋嬖V他們，我不能去演講除非我得到那一個學(xué)分，因為我爸爸總是說沒了那學(xué)位我將一事無成。

So, I finished my coursework, I turned in my final paper and I got the degree.And my dad was very proud.And I know that, if anything happens, that one credit will be my salvation.因此，我完成了我的課程，上交了我的畢業(yè)論文，然后拿到了學(xué)位。我的爸爸非常的驕傲。從此我知道，無論什么事發(fā)生，那一個學(xué)分是我的救世主

But I also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma, because, as B.B.King put it, “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you.” And learning is really in the broadest sense what I want to talk about today, because your education, of course, isn't ending here.In many ways, it's only just begun.但是我知道為什么我爸爸總是堅持讓我獲得文憑，因為，正如B.B.King所說：“關(guān)于學(xué)習(xí)的美好在于別人不會把知識從你身上拿走”學(xué)習(xí)正是我今天想說的，因為你們的教育并沒有在這里結(jié)束。在很多情況下，這才是剛剛開使。

The world has so many lessons to teach you.I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school and our life the classrooms.And sometimes here in this Planet Earth school the lessons often come dressed up as detours or roadblocks.And sometimes as full-blown crises.And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest university of all, that is, the universe itself.這個世界將會教會你們很多。我認(rèn)為這個世界，這個地球，就像一個學(xué)校和我們?nèi)松慕淌?。有時這些課程會是彎路和障礙。有時會充滿危機(jī)。我所學(xué)的應(yīng)付這一切的秘密就是去勇于面對，正如我們面對大學(xué)課程一樣。

It's being able to walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, 'cause that's really why we're here, to evolve as human beings.To grow into more of ourselves, always moving to the next level of understanding, the next level of compassion and growth.我們能夠充滿激情的去生活和自我提高，這就是我們存在的意義。不斷自我提高，去追求人生的更高境界，去追求更高級別的憐憫和自我提高。

I think about one of the greatest compliments I've ever received: I interviewed with a reporter when I was first starting out in Chicago.And then many years later, I saw the same reporter.And she said to me, “You know what? You really haven't changed.You've just become more of yourself.” 我記得我所受到的最大的贊揚(yáng)就是當(dāng)我剛剛在芝加哥開始工作時，我采訪了一個記者。很多年以后我們又見面了。她對我說：“你知道嗎？你一點(diǎn)也沒有變。你變得更為自我了?！?/p>

And that is really what we're all trying to do, become more of ourselves.And I believe that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward.It's how you enrich your spirit.And, trust me, I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth.The more you spend it, the more you gain.這就是我們一直努力在做的，去做我們自己。我堅信你們會從每一件做過的事上學(xué)到經(jīng)驗，這樣你們就會取得進(jìn)步。這樣你們豐富了心靈。相信我，內(nèi)在的智慧比外在的財富更加珍貴。你越是使用它，你就得到更多。

So, today, I just want to share a few lessons—meaning three—that I've learned in my journey so far.And aren't you glad? Don't you hate it when somebody says, “I'm going to share a few,” and it's 10 lessons later? And, you're like, “Listen, this is my graduation.This is not about you.” So, it's only going to be three.今天我想和大家分享我人生的三個經(jīng)驗。你們難道不覺得高興嗎？你們是否會反感，當(dāng)有人對你說：“我想分享一些”但事實上卻是10個經(jīng)驗。你們肯定在想：“聽著，這是我的畢業(yè)典禮，不是你的”。因此這里只有三個經(jīng)驗我想和大家分享。

The three lessons that have had the greatest impact on my life have to do with feelings, with failure and with finding happiness.這三個經(jīng)驗對我的人生產(chǎn)生了很大影響，它們是關(guān)于感情，失敗和追求幸福。

A year after I left college, I was given the opportunity to co-anchor the 6 o'clock news in Baltimore, because the whole goal in the media at the time I was coming up was you try to move to larger markets.And Baltimore was a much larger market than Nashville.So, getting the 6 o'clock news co-anchor job at 22 was such a big deal.It felt like the biggest deal in the world at the time.當(dāng)我離開大學(xué)一年后，在Baltimore我得到了一個共同主持6點(diǎn)新聞的機(jī)會。在那時媒體界的最大目標(biāo)就是獲得更大的市場，而Baltimore是一個比Nashville大得多的市場，因此在22歲時得到這個機(jī)會對我來說非常重要。它那時對我來說它仿佛是世界上最重要的事。

And I was so proud, because I was finally going to have my chance to be like Barbara Walters, which is who I had been trying to emulate since the start of my TV career.So, I was 22 years old, making $22,000 a year.And it's where I met my best friend, Gayle, who was an intern at the same TV station.And once we became friends, we'd say, “Ohmigod, I can't believe it!You're making $22,000 and you're only 22.Imagine when you're 40 and you're making $40,000!” 我非常自豪，因為我終于有機(jī)會去效法barbara Walters。而她正是我從業(yè)以來一直效法的對象。那時我22歲，每年掙22,000美元。我遇到了在電視臺做實習(xí)生的Gayle，我們立刻成了好朋友。我們說：“我的天啊，真難以置信。你在22歲時掙每年能掙22,000美元。想象一下吧，當(dāng)你40歲時你每年就會掙40,000美元”

When I turned 40, I was so glad that didn't happen.當(dāng)我真的40歲時，我很高興這并沒有成真。

So, here I am, 22, making $22,000 a year and, yet, it didn't feel right.It didn't feel right.The first sign, as President Hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my name.The news director said to me at the time, “Nobody's going to remember Oprah.So, we want to change your name.We've come up with a name we think that people will remember and people will like.It's a friendly name: Suzie.” 這就是我，22歲時每年掙22,000美元，然而，這種感覺并不好。首先，正如Hennessy校長所說，當(dāng)他們試圖讓我改名字。那時導(dǎo)演對我說：“沒人會記住Oprah這個名字。因此我們想讓你改名字。我們已經(jīng)為你想了一個大家都會記住和喜歡的名字——Suzie?！?/p>

Hi, Suzie.Very friendly.You can't be angry with Suzie.Remember Suzie.But my name wasn't Suzie.And, you know, I'd grown up not really loving my name, because when you're looking for your little name on the lunch boxes and the license plate tags, you're never going to find Oprah.Suzie，一個很友善的名字。你不會厭惡Suzie。記住Suzie吧。但是我的名字不是Suzie。你們可以看到，自小我就不怎么喜歡我的名字。因為當(dāng)你在午餐箱和牌號尋找你的名字時，你永遠(yuǎn)也不會找Oprah。

So, I grew up not loving the name, but once I was asked to change it, I thought, well, it is my name and do I look like a Suzie to you? So, I thought, no, it doesn't feel right.I'm not going to change my name.And if people remember it or not, that's OK.我從小就不怎么喜歡我的名字，但是當(dāng)我被告知去改名字時，我想，好吧，那時我的名字，但是Suzie真的適合我嗎？因此我想，它并不適合我。我不會改我的名字。我也不介意人們是否記得住我的名字，這沒什么大不了的。

And then they said they didn't like the way I looked.This was in 1976, when your boss could call you in and say, “I don't like the way you look.” Now that would be called a lawsuit, but back then they could just say, “I don't like the way you look.” Which, in case some of you in the back, if you can't tell, is nothing like Barbara Walters.So, they sent me to a salon where they gave me a perm, and after a few days all my hair fell out and I had to shave my head.And then they really didn't like the way I looked.Because now I am black and bald and sitting on TV.Not a pretty picture.然后他們還對我說他們不喜歡我的長相。那是在1976年，你的老板可以那么說。但是如果是現(xiàn)在的話，那就是一件很嚴(yán)重的事了。可是那時他們還是說：“我不喜歡你的造型?！蔽腋静幌馚arbara Walters。于是他們把我送到沙龍，給我燙了發(fā)?？墒菐滋旌笪业念^發(fā)一團(tuán)糟。我不得不剃光我的頭發(fā)。此時他們更不喜歡我的造型了。因為作為一個光頭黑人坐在攝影機(jī)前，我肯定不漂亮的。

But even worse than being bald, I really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on other people's tragedies as a part of my daily duty, knowing that I was just expected to observe, when everything in my instinct told me that I should be doing something, I should be lending a hand.比光頭更令我討厭的是我不得不把播報別人遭受的痛苦作為我的日常工作。我深知我期待去觀察，我的內(nèi)心告訴我，我應(yīng)該做些什么了。我需要為他人提供幫助。

So, as President Hennessy said, I'd cover a fire and then I'd go back and I'd try to give the victims blankets.And I wouldn't be able to sleep at night because of all the things I was covering during the day.正如Hennessy校長所說的那樣，我播報了一起火災(zāi)，然后應(yīng)當(dāng)去給受害者拿毯子。由于白天播報的那些新聞導(dǎo)致我晚上難以入睡。

And, meanwhile, I was trying to sit gracefully like Barbara and make myself talk like Barbara.And I thought, well, I could make a pretty goofy Barbara.And if I could figure out how to be myself, I could be a pretty good Oprah.I was trying to sound elegant like Barbara.And sometimes I didn't read my copy, because something inside me said, this should be spontaneous.So, I wanted to get the news as I was giving it to the people.So, sometimes, I wouldn't read my copy and it would be, like, six people on a pileup on I-40.Oh, my goodness.與此同時我盡量表現(xiàn)的優(yōu)雅一些，使我更像Barbara。我認(rèn)為我可能會成為一個傻傻的Barbara。如果我做回我自己，我就會成為一個很棒的Oprah。我努力像Barbara那樣優(yōu)雅。有時我并不讀我的稿件，因為我的內(nèi)心告訴我這是不自主的。所以我想為大家播報一些我想要的新聞。有時，我不會播報像6個人在連環(huán)車禍中受傷這類的新聞。哦，我的天啊。

And sometimes I wouldn't read the copy—because I wanted to be spontaneous—and I'd come across a list of words I didn't know and I'd mispronounce.And one day I was reading copy and I called Canada “ca nada.” And I decided, this Barbara thing's not going too well.I should try being myself.有時出于內(nèi)心的本能，我不會去播報一些新聞。我還會遇到一些不認(rèn)識的和念錯的詞。一天當(dāng)我播新聞時，我把加拿大讀錯了。我想這樣下去學(xué)Barbara可不大好。我應(yīng)該做回我自己。

But at the same time, my dad was saying, “Oprah Gail, this is an opportunity of a lifetime.You better keep that job.” And my boss was saying, “This is the nightly news.You're an anchor, not a social worker.Just do your job.” 但那是我爸爸卻對我說：“這是你一生的機(jī)會。你最好繼續(xù)那份工作。”我的老板也說：“這是晚間新聞。你是播報員，不是福利工作者。還是做你的本職工作吧?！?/p>

So, I was juggling these messages of expectation and obligation and feeling really miserable with myself.I'd go home at night and fill up my journals, 'cause I've kept a journal since I was 15—so I now have volumes of journals.So, I'd go home at night and fill up my journals about how miserable I was and frustrated.Then I'd eat my anxiety.That's where I learned that habit.我歪曲了這些期待和義務(wù)，并感覺很糟。晚上回到家后我會記日記。自從15歲時我就開始記日記了，于是現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)有了好幾卷日記。我晚上回到家后，我會記錄下我是多么的不幸和沮喪。然后我消除了焦慮。這就是我如何養(yǎng)成了那個習(xí)慣。

And after eight months, I lost that job.They said I was too emotional.I was too much.But since they didn't want to pay out the contract, they put me on a talk show in Baltimore.And the moment I sat down on that show, the moment I did, I felt like I'd come home.I realized that TV could be more than just a playground, but a platform for service, for helping other people lift their lives.And the moment I sat down, doing that talk show, it felt like breathing.It felt right.And that's where everything that followed for me began.8個月后我失去了那份工作。他們說我太情緒化了。但因為他們不想違背合約，他們就讓我去Baltimore主持一檔脫口秀節(jié)目。從我開始主持那檔節(jié)目的一刻開始，我感覺好像回到了家一樣。我意識到電視不應(yīng)該僅僅是一個娛樂場，更應(yīng)該是一個以服務(wù)為目的的平臺，以幫助他人更好的生活。當(dāng)我開始主持節(jié)目的時間侯，就像呼吸一樣。感覺好極啦。這就是我工作的真正開始。

And I got that lesson.When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.這就是我學(xué)到的經(jīng)驗。當(dāng)你做的是一份你喜歡的工作時，那感覺棒極了。無論你能掙到多少錢，你都會有很大收獲。

It's true.And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so.What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life.When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.Every right decision I've made—every right decision I've ever made—has come from my gut.And every wrong decision I've ever made was a result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.這是真的。但是你怎么知道你所做的是對的呢？你怎么知道呢？我所知道的就是你的內(nèi)心是你人生的導(dǎo)航系統(tǒng)。當(dāng)你應(yīng)該或者不應(yīng)該改做某事時，你的內(nèi)心會告訴你怎樣去做。關(guān)鍵是去面對你自己，面對你自己的內(nèi)心。我所做過的所有正確選擇都是源自我內(nèi)心的。我所做過的所有錯誤選擇都是因為沒有聽取來自我內(nèi)心的聲音。

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.That's the lesson.And that lesson alone will save you, my friends, a lot of grief.Even doubt means don't.This is what I've learned.There are many times when you don't know what to do.When you don't know what to do, get still, get very still, until you do know what to do.如果感覺不好，就不要去做。這就是我的經(jīng)驗。我的朋友，這個經(jīng)驗會幫你避免很多痛苦。甚至懷疑都意味著不要去做。這就是我所學(xué)到的。有很多次當(dāng)你不知道如何去做時，什么也不要做，直到你知道怎么做為止。

And when you do get still and let your internal motivation be the driver, not only will your personal life improve, but you will gain a competitive edge in the working world as well.Because, as Daniel Pink writes in his best-seller, A Whole New Mind, we're entering a whole new age.And he calls it the Conceptual Age, where traits that set people apart today are going to come from our hearts—right brain—as well as our heads.It's no longer just the logical, linear, rules-based thinking that matters, he says.It's also empathy and joyfulness and purpose, inner traits that have transcendent worth.當(dāng)你什么也不要做時，讓你的內(nèi)心作為驅(qū)動力。不僅僅你的個人生活會提高，你在工作中也會獲得競爭力。正如Daniel Pink在他的暢銷書A Whole New Mind中所說的那樣，我們進(jìn)入了一個新時代，一個他稱之為概念時代的時代。人們的內(nèi)心使人與人之間產(chǎn)生隔閡。他說，重要的不僅僅是邏輯上的，線性的，直尺式的思維方式。移情，快樂，目標(biāo)和內(nèi)部特質(zhì)同樣也有卓越的價值。

These qualities bloom when we're doing what we love, when we're involving the wholeness of ourselves in our work, both our expertise and our emotion.當(dāng)我們做自己喜歡的事時，當(dāng)我們?nèi)硇牡耐度氲焦ぷ髦袝r，這些特質(zhì)就會煥發(fā)生機(jī)。

So, I say to you, forget about the fast lane.If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.Honor your calling.Everybody has one.Trust your heart and success will come to you.因此我對你說，忘掉那些快車道吧。如果你真的像飛翔，就把你的力量投入到你的激情當(dāng)中。尊重你內(nèi)心的召喚。每一個人都會有的。相信你的心靈，你會成功的。

So, how do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice.I'm not going to stand up here and tell you that it's not about money, 'cause money is very nice.I like money.It's good for buying things.那么我是如何定義成功的呢？讓我告訴你，錢很美好。我不會告訴你們成功與錢無關(guān)，因為錢是好東東。我喜歡錢。它能買東西。

But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person.What you want is money and meaning.You want your work to be meaningful.Because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.What you really want is to be surrounded by people you trust and treasure and by people who cherish you.That's when you're really rich.So, lesson one, follow your feelings.If it feels right, move forward.If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.但是擁有很多錢并不能使你自然而然的成為一個成功者。你想要的是錢和意義。你想你的工作更有意義。因為有意義使你的生活更加充實。你所希望得到的是被信任你珍視你的人包圍。這才是你真正富有的時候。因此，第一個經(jīng)驗，跟隨你的心靈。如果感覺對了，就繼續(xù)前進(jìn)。如果感覺不對，就不要做了。

Now I want to talk a little bit about failings, because nobody's journey is seamless or smooth.We all stumble.We all have setbacks.If things go wrong, you hit a dead end—as you will—it's just life's way of saying time to change course.So, ask every failure—this is what I do with every failure, every crisis, every difficult time—I say, what is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on.If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class.If you don't get the lesson, it shows up wearing another pair of pants—or skirt—to give you some remedial work.現(xiàn)在我想談?wù)勈　]有人他的一生是一帆風(fēng)順的。我們都會遇到困難，受到挫折。如果事情出錯了，你進(jìn)入了死胡同，這正是生活在告訴你是時候改變了。所以，每當(dāng)遇到困難和危機(jī)時，我都會問它教會了我什么？只要你吸取了教訓(xùn)，你就會繼續(xù)前進(jìn)。如果你真正吸取了教訓(xùn)，你就會順利通過考驗，不用再取經(jīng)受失敗了。如果你沒有吸取教訓(xùn)，它會以另外一種形式給出現(xiàn)在你面前并給你一些補(bǔ)救。

And what I've found is that difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper, because life always whispers to you first.And if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.Whatever you resist persists.But, if you ask the right question—not why is this happening, but what is this here to teach me?—it puts you in the place and space to get the lesson you need.我注意到當(dāng)你沒有仔細(xì)對待生活的細(xì)節(jié)時，困難就會出現(xiàn)。因為生活總是提前低聲的告戒你。如果你忽視了這個低聲的告誡，過不了多久你就會得到一個驚聲尖叫，無論你怎樣反抗。但是如果你不去想為什困難會發(fā)生，而是去反思困難會教給我什么時，你就會學(xué)到你需要的東西。

My friend Eckhart Tolle, who's written this wonderful book called A New Earth that's all about letting the awareness of who you are stimulate everything that you do, he puts it like this: He says, don't react against a bad situation;merge with that situation instead.And the solution will arise from the challenge.Because surrendering yourself doesn't mean giving up;it means acting with responsibility.我的朋友Eckhart Tolle。他寫了一本非常棒的書，名叫A New Earth。這本書就是關(guān)于讓你的意識激勵你去做事。他說，不要去反抗困境，相反，要融入到其中。事情會變的越來越好的。因為暫時的屈服并不意味著放棄，它意味著一種責(zé)任感。

Many of you know that, as President Hennessy said, I started this school in Africa.And I founded the school, where I'm trying to give South African girls a shot at a future like yours—Stanford.And I spent five years making sure that school would be as beautiful as the students.I wanted every girl to feel her worth reflected in her surroundings.So, I checked every blueprint, I picked every pillow.I was looking at the grout in between the bricks.I knew every thread count of the sheets.I chose every girl from the villages, from nine provinces.And yet, last fall, I was faced with a crisis I had never anticipated.I was told that one of the dorm matrons was suspected of sexual abuse.你們當(dāng)中很多人都知道，正如Hennessy校長所說，我在非洲創(chuàng)辦了一個學(xué)校。我希望給南非的女孩們一個像你們一樣的未來。我花了5年時間來確保學(xué)校會像學(xué)生們一樣好。我想讓每一個女孩感覺到自己的價值受到重視。所以我檢查了每一個設(shè)計圖，親自挑選每個枕頭，甚至檢查磚塊間的水泥。我知道每一個細(xì)節(jié)。每一學(xué)生都是我從9個省的村落里親自選出來的。然而，去年的秋天我卻遇到了一個我從未預(yù)料的危機(jī)。我被告知有一名宿舍管理員涉嫌性虐待。

That was, as you can imagine, devastating news.First, I cried—actually, I sobbed—for about half an hour.And then I said, let's get to it;that's all you get, a half an hour.You need to focus on the now, what you need to do now.So, I contacted a child trauma specialist.I put together a team of investigators.I made sure the girls had counseling and support.And Gayle and I got on a plane and flew to South Africa.你們可以想象得到這是多么令人沮喪的消息啊。首先，我哭了，啜泣了大約半個小時。然后我說，我們得面對它。一個半小時，這就是你全部所能得到的。你需要把注意力集中到現(xiàn)在，現(xiàn)在你因該做些什么。所以我聯(lián)系了一位兒科創(chuàng)傷專家。我派了一隊調(diào)查人員。我確定女孩們得到了安慰和支持。Gayle和我坐上飛機(jī)飛向南非。

And the whole time I kept asking that question: What is this here to teach me? And, as difficult as that experience has been, I got a lot of lessons.I understand now the mistakes I made, because I had been paying attention to all of the wrong things.I'd built that school from the outside in, when what really mattered was the inside out.So, it's a lesson that applies to all of our lives as a whole.What matters most is what's inside.What matters most is the sense of integrity, of quality and beauty.I got that lesson.And what I know is that the girls came away with something, too.They have emerged from this more resilient and knowing that their voices have power.整個過程中我都在問自己：“這件事教會了我什么？”雖然這個經(jīng)歷十分困難，但是我學(xué)到了很多。我意識到自己所犯的錯誤，因為我一直以來都把注意力集中在錯事上。我從外向內(nèi)建造了那所學(xué)校，然而正真對我有意義的是從內(nèi)向外的去建造它。最重要的是我對正直，品質(zhì)和美好的理解。我學(xué)到了那個教訓(xùn)。我也明白女孩們也學(xué)到了一些事。她們從中恢復(fù)了過來并意識到她們的聲音是有影響力的。

And their resilience and spirit have given me more than I could ever give to them, which leads me to my final lesson—the one about finding happiness—which we could talk about all day, but I know you have other wacky things to do.她們的恢復(fù)力和精神給了我很多東西，以至于比我給她們的還多。接下來是我最后的經(jīng)驗—關(guān)于尋找幸福，我可以談?wù)撘徽?，但是我有其他古怪的事要做?/p>

Not a small topic this is, finding happiness.But in some ways I think it's the simplest of all.Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a poem for her children.It's called “Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward.” And she says at the end, “Live not for battles won./ Live not for the-end-of-the-song./ Live in the along.” She's saying, like Eckhart Tolle, that you have to live for the present.You have to be in the moment.Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.追求幸福并不是一個小話題。但在某種程度上來說它又是最簡單的話題。Gwendolyn Brooks為她的孩子寫了一首詩，詩名是Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward.在詩的最后她說到，不要為了戰(zhàn)勝而生活，不要為了歌曲的結(jié)尾而生活，要享受生活。她說，你應(yīng)當(dāng)為了現(xiàn)在而生活，無論過去發(fā)生了什么都不應(yīng)該影響到現(xiàn)在，因為生活就是過好現(xiàn)在。

But I think she's also saying, be a part of something.Don't live for yourself alone.This is what I know for sure: In order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand for something larger than yourself.Because life is a reciprocal exchange.To move forward you have to give back.And to me, that is the greatest lesson of life.To be happy, you have to give something back.我想她還說過，去參與一些事。不要僅僅為了自己而生活。我可以非?？隙ǖ氖菫榱俗非笳嬲目鞓?，你必須為了一些更有意義的事而生活。生活是互動的。為了前進(jìn)，你必須后退。對于我而言，這是人生中最重要的經(jīng)驗。想要獲得快樂你必須付出。

I know you know that, because that's a lesson that's woven into the very fabric of this university.It's a lesson that Jane and Leland Stanford got and one they've bequeathed to you.Because all of you know the story of how this great school came to be, how the Stanfords lost their only child to typhoid at the age of 15.They had every right and they had every reason to turn their backs against the world at that time, but instead, they channeled their grief and their pain into an act of grace.Within a year of their son's death, they had made the founding grant for this great school, pledging to do for other people's children what they were not able to do for their own boy.我知道你們已經(jīng)很了解了，因為這個經(jīng)驗已經(jīng)深深的融入了斯坦福。這個經(jīng)驗是Jane and Leland傳承給你們的。因為你們所有的人都知道這座偉大的大學(xué)是如何建成的。斯坦福夫婦的獨(dú)子在15歲時得了傷寒離開了他們。他們有權(quán)利和理由去恨這個世界，但是他們卻用優(yōu)雅的行動疏導(dǎo)了心中的悲傷。在他們兒子死后不到一年內(nèi)，他們已經(jīng)這所偉大的大學(xué)籌集了建設(shè)經(jīng)費(fèi)，并發(fā)誓要為別人的孩子做一些他們自己的孩子不能得到事。The lesson here is clear, and that is, if you're hurting, you need to help somebody ease their hurt.If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.And when you're in a mess, you get yourself out of the mess helping somebody out of theirs.And in the process, you get to become a member of what I call the greatest fellowship of all, the sorority of compassion and the fraternity of service.這個經(jīng)驗非常明顯，那就是，如果你受了傷，你需要幫助他人減輕傷痛。如果你感到痛苦，幫助他人減輕痛苦。如果你的生活一團(tuán)糟，去幫助其他處在困難中的人擺脫困境。這樣一來，你就變成了婦女聯(lián)誼會或是互助會中最偉大的一個員。

The Stanfords had suffered the worst thing any mom and dad can ever endure, yet they understood that helping others is the way we help ourselves.And this wisdom is increasingly supported by scientific and sociological research.It's no longer just woo-woo soft-skills talk.There's actually a helper's high, a spiritual surge you gain from serving others.So, if you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.斯坦福夫婦遭受了世上父母所能遭受的最大痛苦，然而他們懂得通過幫助他人來幫助自己。這種智慧漸漸的被科學(xué)和社會學(xué)研究所證實。這不僅僅是某種軟技能的談話。這事實上是在幫助者的高度，一種從幫助別人而獲得的精神大爆發(fā)。所以如果你想快樂，去幫助別人吧。

But when you do good, I hope you strive for more than just the good feeling that service provides, because I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.So, whatever field you choose, if you operate from the paradigm of service, I know your life will have more value and you will be happy.但是當(dāng)你做好事時，我希望你不僅僅是為了獲得的快樂，因為我深知做好事可以讓你變得更棒。所以無論你怎樣選擇，若你能以服務(wù)他人為榜樣，我相信你的生活會更有價值，你也會更快樂。

I was always happy doing my talk show, but that happiness reached a depth of fulfillment, of joy, that I really can't describe to you or measure when I stopped just being on TV and looking at TV as a job and decided to use television, to use it and not have it use me, to use it as a platform to serve my viewers.That alone changed the trajectory of my success.我也很高興做我的脫口秀節(jié)目，那種快樂是一種更深層次的成就感，我很難去表達(dá)和衡量。我決定以電視作為我的職業(yè)，我要用電視這個平臺來為我的觀眾服務(wù)，而不是讓電視利用我。這改變了我成功的軌跡。

So, I know this—that whether you're an actor, you offer your talent in the way that most inspires art.If you're an anatomist, you look at your gift as knowledge and service to healing.Whether you've been called, as so many of you here today getting doctorates and other degrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if you choose to offer your skills and talent in service, when you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.And I know you haven't spent all this time at Stanford just to go out and get a job.我知道無論你是否是一名演員，你都應(yīng)該把你的才智貢獻(xiàn)給能夠鼓舞他人的事業(yè)。如果你是一名剖析家，你應(yīng)當(dāng)把你們的智慧投入到醫(yī)治他人當(dāng)中。無論你是否被召喚，你們中的很多人在經(jīng)濟(jì)，法律，人權(quán)，科學(xué)，醫(yī)藥方面都獲得了諸如博士一類的學(xué)位，如果你們決定把你們的技能和智慧奉獻(xiàn)給服務(wù)他人們，選擇把服務(wù)他人作為榜樣，你們的工作就會變成一種天賦。我知道你們在斯坦福所在的一切就是為了出去找一份工作。

You've been enriched in countless ways.There's no better way to make your mark on the world and to share that abundance with others.My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.你們在很多方面都得到了提高。沒有其它更好的方式能夠分享你的豐富的才智了。我永恒的祈禱就是讓自己能夠為他人提供更好的服務(wù)

So, let me end with one of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King.Dr.King said, “Not everybody can be famous.” And I don't know, but everybody today seems to want to be famous.就讓我引用馬丁路德金的話來作為結(jié)束語吧。他說：“不是所有人都會出名?！蔽也恢?，但似乎今天所有人都想出名。

But fame is a trip.People follow you to the bathroom, listen to you pee.It's just—try to pee quietly.It doesn't matter, they come out and say, “Ohmigod, it's you.You peed.” 但是成名也是一種代價。有些人會尾隨你到衛(wèi)生間，聽你尿尿。你會盡量尿的輕一些。這沒什么大不了的。他們會對你說：“我的天啊，是你！你尿尿啦?！?/p>

That's the fame trip, so I don't know if you want that.這就是成名的代價，我不知道你們是否喜歡。

So, Dr.King said, “Not everybody can be famous.But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” Those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that passage.He said, “You don't have to have a college degree to serve.You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.You don't have to know about Plato or Aristotle to serve.You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.” 所以，正如馬丁路德金所說，“不是所有人都會成名。但每個人都可以變的偉大，因為偉大是通過為他人服務(wù)而界定的?！?你們當(dāng)中學(xué)歷史的人可能會知道他接下來的話，“為別人提供服務(wù)，并不一定要有大學(xué)學(xué)歷，并不一定要主謂一致，并不一定要認(rèn)識柏拉圖和亞里士多德，并不一定要會愛因斯坦的相對論，并不一定要了解熱力學(xué)第二定律。你所需要的是一顆優(yōu)雅的心靈和充滿愛的靈魂?！?/p>

In a few moments, you'll all be officially Stanford's '08.不久你們就會正式成為斯坦福大學(xué)2008年的畢業(yè)生了。

You have the heart and the smarts to go with it.And it's up to you to decide, really, where will you now use those gifts? You've got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, 'cause I know great things are sure to come.你們有聰明才智。你們將會決定如何利用它。說真的，你們將會如何利用它呢？你們拿到了學(xué)位。走向社會吧，我堅信偉大的事將會發(fā)生的。

You know, I've always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before I go, I wanted to share a graduation gift with you.Underneath your seats you'll find two of my favorite books.Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is my current book club selection.Our New Earth webcast has been downloaded 30 million times with that book.And Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future has reassured me I'm in the right direction.你們知道，我一直堅信，如果你和他人分享，那么事情就會變得更好。所以在我離開之前，我想和大家分享一下畢業(yè)禮物。在你們的座位底下，你們會發(fā)現(xiàn)兩本我最喜歡的書。Eckhart Tolle的A New Earth流行書俱樂部的精選品。我們的New Earth廣播已經(jīng)被下載3億次。Daniel Pink的A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future 使我確定我在人生的正軌上。

I really wanted to give you cars but I just couldn't pull that off!Congratulations, '08!我真的想送大家轎車，只是開不過來！祝賀大家！08年的畢業(yè)生們！

第五篇：喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮演講稿

喬布斯2005年斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮演講稿

You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

Jobs說，你必須要找到你所愛的東西。

這是蘋果公司和Pixar動畫工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12號在斯坦福大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮上面的演講稿。

我今天很榮幸能和你們一起參加畢業(yè)典禮，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一。我從來沒有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)。說實話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個故事而已。

第一個故事是關(guān)于如何把生命中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來。

我在Reed大學(xué)讀了六個月之后就退學(xué)了,但是在十八個月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前,我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？

故事從我出生的時候講起。我的親生母親是一個年輕的,沒有結(jié)婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我, 她十分想讓我被大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)。所以在我出生的時候，她已經(jīng)做好了一切的準(zhǔn)備工作，能使得我被一個律師和他的妻子所收養(yǎng)。但是她沒有料到,當(dāng)我出生之后,律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個女孩。所以我的生養(yǎng)父母（他們還在我親生父母的觀察名單上）突然在半夜接到了一個電話:“我們現(xiàn)在這兒有一個不小心生出來的男嬰,你們想要他嗎？”他們回答道:“當(dāng)然！”但是我親生母親隨后發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有上過大學(xué),我的父親甚至從沒有讀過高中。她拒絕簽這個收養(yǎng)合同。只是在幾個月以后,我的父母答應(yīng)她一定要讓我上大學(xué),那個時候她才同意。

在十七歲那年,我真的上了大學(xué)。但是我很愚蠢的選擇了一個幾乎和你們斯坦福大學(xué)一樣貴的學(xué)校, 我父母還處于藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上面。在六個月后, 我已經(jīng)看不到其中的價值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大學(xué)能幫助我找到怎樣的答案。但是在這里，我?guī)缀趸ü饬宋腋改高@一輩子的所有積蓄。所以我決定要退學(xué),我覺得這是個正確的決定。不能否認(rèn),我當(dāng)時確實非常的害怕, 但是現(xiàn)在回頭看看,那的確是我這一生中最棒的一個決定。在我做出退學(xué)決定的那一刻, 我終于可以不必去讀那些令我提不起絲毫興趣的課程了。然后我還可以去修那些看起來有點(diǎn)意思的課程。但是這并不是那么羅曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房間的地板上面睡覺,我去撿5美分的可樂瓶子，僅僅為了填飽肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程，穿過這個城市到Hare Krishna寺廟（注：位于紐約Brooklyn下城）,只是為了能吃上飯——這個星期唯一一頓好一點(diǎn)的飯。但是我喜歡這樣。我跟著我的直覺和好奇心走, 遇到的很多東西,此后被證明是無價之寶。讓我給你們舉一個例子吧：

Reed大學(xué)在那時提供也許是全美最好的美術(shù)字課程。在這個大學(xué)里面的每個海報, 每個抽屜的標(biāo)簽上面全都是漂亮的美術(shù)字。因為我退學(xué)了, 沒有受到正規(guī)的訓(xùn)練, 所以我決定去參加這個課程，去學(xué)學(xué)怎樣寫出漂亮的美術(shù)字。我學(xué)到了san serif 和serif字體, 我學(xué)會了怎么樣在不同的字母組合之中改變空格的長度, 還有怎么樣才能作出最棒的印刷式樣。那是一種科學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)不能捕捉到的、美麗的、真實的藝術(shù)精妙, 我發(fā)現(xiàn)那實在是太美妙了。

當(dāng)時看起來這些東西在我的生命中，好像都沒有什么實際應(yīng)用的可能。但是十年之后,當(dāng)我們在設(shè)計第一臺Macintosh電腦的時候,就不是那樣了。我把當(dāng)時我學(xué)的那些家伙全都設(shè)計進(jìn)了Mac。那是第一臺使用了漂亮的印刷字體的電腦。如果我當(dāng)時沒有退學(xué), 就不會有機(jī)會去參加這個我感興趣的美術(shù)字課程,Mac就不會有這么多豐富的字體，以及賞心悅目的字體間距。那么現(xiàn)在個人電腦就不會有現(xiàn)在這么美妙的字型了。當(dāng)然我在大學(xué)的時候，還不可能把從前的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來,但是當(dāng)我十年后回顧這一切的時候,真的豁然開朗了。

再次說明的是,你在向前展望的時候不可能將這些片斷串連起來；你只能在回顧的時候?qū)Ⅻc(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來。所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。你必須要相信某些東西：你的勇氣、目的、生命、因緣。這個過程從來沒有令我失望（let me down）,只是讓我的生命更加地與眾不同而已。

我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛和損失的。

我非常幸運(yùn), 因為我在很早的時候就找到了我鐘愛的東西。Woz和我在二十歲的時候就在父母的車庫里面開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。我們工作得很努力, 十年之后, 這個公司從那兩個車庫中的窮光蛋發(fā)展到了超過四千名的雇員、價值超過二十億的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我們剛剛發(fā)布了最好的產(chǎn)品,那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十歲了。在那一年, 我被炒了魷魚。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司炒了魷魚呢? 嗯,在蘋果快速成長的時候，我們雇用了一個很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個公司, 在最初的幾年,公司運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)的很好。但是后來我們對未來的看法發(fā)生了分歧, 最終我們吵了起來。當(dāng)爭吵不可開交的時候, 董事會站在了他的那一邊。所以在三十歲的時候, 我被炒了。在這么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱離自己遠(yuǎn)去, 這真是毀滅性的打擊。

在最初的幾個月里，我真是不知道該做些什么。我把從前的創(chuàng)業(yè)激情給丟了, 我覺得自己讓與我一同創(chuàng)業(yè)的人都很沮喪。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce見面，并試圖向他們道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透頂了。但是我漸漸發(fā)現(xiàn)了曙光, 我仍然喜愛我從事的這些東西。蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些事情絲毫的沒有改變這些, 一點(diǎn)也沒有。我被驅(qū)逐了,但是我仍然鐘愛它。所以我決定從頭再來。

我當(dāng)時沒有覺察, 但是事后證明, 從蘋果公司被炒是我這輩子發(fā)生的最棒的事情。因為，作為一個成功者的極樂感覺被作為一個創(chuàng)業(yè)者的輕松感覺所重新代替: 對任何事情都不那么特別看重。這讓我覺得如此自由, 進(jìn)入了我生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個階段。

在接下來的五年里, 我創(chuàng)立了一個名叫NeXT的公司, 還有一個叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一個后來成為我妻子的優(yōu)雅女人相識。Pixar 制作了世界上第一個用電腦制作的動畫電影——“”玩具總動員”,Pixar現(xiàn)在也是世界上最成功的電腦制作工作室。在后來的一系列運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)中,Apple收購了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我們在NeXT發(fā)展的技術(shù)在Apple的復(fù)興之中發(fā)揮了關(guān)鍵的作用。我還和Laurence 一起建立了一個幸福的家庭。

我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple開除的話, 這其中一件事情也不會發(fā)生的。這個良藥的味道實在是太苦了,但是我想病人需要這個藥。有些時候, 生活會拿起一塊磚頭向你的腦袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我無比鐘愛。你需要去找到你所愛的東西。對于工作是如此, 對于你的愛人也是如此。你的工作將會占據(jù)生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是偉大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。如果你現(xiàn)在還沒有找到, 那么繼續(xù)找、不要停下來、全心全意的去找, 當(dāng)你找到的時候你就會知道的。就像任何真誠的關(guān)系, 隨著歲月的流逝只會越來越緊密。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它，不要停下來！

我的第三個故事是關(guān)于死亡的。

當(dāng)我十七歲的時候, 我讀到了一句話:“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作生命中最后一天去生活的話,那么有一天你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的。”這句話給我留下了深刻的印象。從那時開始,過了33年,我在每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你會不會完成你今天想做的事情呢？”當(dāng)答案連續(xù)很多

次被給予“不是”的時候, 我知道自己需要改變某些事情了。

“記住你即將死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它幫我指明了生命中重要的選擇。因為幾乎所有的事情, 包括所有的榮譽(yù)、所有的驕傲、所有對難堪和失敗的恐懼,這些在死亡面前都會消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的東西。你有時候會思考你將會失去某些東西,“記住你即將死去”是我知道的避免這些想法的最好辦法。你已經(jīng)赤身裸體了, 你沒有理由不去跟隨自己的心一起跳動。

大概一年以前, 我被診斷出癌癥。我在早晨七點(diǎn)半做了一個檢查, 檢查清楚的顯示在我的胰腺有一個腫瘤。我當(dāng)時都不知道胰腺是什么東西。醫(yī)生告訴我那很可能是一種無法治愈的癌癥, 我還有三到六個月的時間活在這個世界上。我的醫(yī)生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是醫(yī)生準(zhǔn)備死亡的程序。那意味著你將要把未來十年對你小孩說的話在幾個月里面說完.；那意味著把每件事情都搞定, 讓你的家人會盡可能輕松的生活；那意味著你要說“再見了”。

我整天和那個診斷書一起生活。后來有一天早上我作了一個活切片檢查，醫(yī)生將一個內(nèi)窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸進(jìn)去,通過我的胃, 然后進(jìn)入我的腸子, 用一根針在我的胰腺上的腫瘤上取了幾個細(xì)胞。我當(dāng)時很鎮(zhèn)靜,因為我被注射了鎮(zhèn)定劑。但是我的妻子在那里, 后來告訴我，當(dāng)醫(yī)生在顯微鏡地下觀察這些細(xì)胞的時候他們開始尖叫, 因為這些細(xì)胞最后竟然是一種非常罕見的可以用手術(shù)治愈的胰腺癌癥。我做了這個手術(shù), 現(xiàn)在我痊愈了。

那是我最接近死亡的時候, 我還希望這也是以后的幾十年最接近的一次。從死亡線上又活了過來, 死亡對我來說，只是一個有用但是純粹是知識上的概念的時候，我可以更肯定一點(diǎn)地對你們說：

沒有人愿意死, 即使人們想上天堂, 人們也不會為了去那里而死。但是死亡是我們每個人共同的終點(diǎn)。從來沒有人能夠逃脫它。也應(yīng)該如此。因為死亡就是生命中最好的一個發(fā)明。它將舊的清除以便給新的讓路。你們現(xiàn)在是新的, 但是從現(xiàn)在開始不久以后, 你們將會逐漸的變成舊的然后被清除。我很抱歉這很戲劇性, 但是這十分的真實。

你們的時間很有限, 所以不要將他們浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)其他人的生活上。不要被教條束縛,那意味著你和其他人思考的結(jié)果一起生活。不要被其他人喧囂的觀點(diǎn)掩蓋你真正的內(nèi)心的聲音。還有最重要的是, 你要有勇氣去聽從你直覺和心靈的指示——它們在某種程度上知道你想要成為什么樣子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。

當(dāng)我年輕的時候, 有一本叫做“整個地球的目錄”振聾發(fā)聵的雜志，它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。它是一個叫Stewart Brand的家伙在離這里不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park書寫的, 他象詩一般神奇地將這本書帶到了這個世界。那是六十年代后期, 在個人電腦出現(xiàn)之前, 所以這本書全部是用打字機(jī),、剪刀還有偏光鏡制造的。有點(diǎn)像用軟皮包裝的google, 在google出現(xiàn)三十五年之前：這是理想主義的，其中有許多靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。

Stewart和他的伙伴出版了幾期的“整個地球的目錄”,當(dāng)它完成了自己使命的時候, 他們做出了最后一期的目錄。那是在七十年代的中期, 你們的時代。在最后一期的封底上是清晨鄉(xiāng)村公路的照片（如果你有冒險精神的話，你可以自己找到這條路的），在照片之下有這樣一段話：“保持饑餓,保持愚蠢?！边@是他們停止了發(fā)刊的告別語?！氨３逐囸I,保持愚蠢。”我總是希望自己能夠那樣,現(xiàn)在, 在你們即將畢業(yè)，開始新的旅程的時候, 我也希望你們能這樣：

保持饑餓，保持愚蠢。

Thank you all very much.非常感謝你們。

喬布斯2005年在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講及讀后感

今天，很榮幸來到各位從世界上最好的學(xué)校之一畢業(yè)的畢業(yè)典禮上。我從來沒從大學(xué)畢業(yè)過，說實話，這是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一刻。

今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三個故事就好。

第一個故事，是關(guān)于人生中的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴如何串連在一起。

我在里德學(xué)院（Reed College）待了六個月就辦休學(xué)了。到我退學(xué)前，一共休學(xué)了十八個月。那么，我為什么休學(xué)？

這得從我出生前講起。

我的親生母親當(dāng)時是個研究生，年輕未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。她強(qiáng)烈覺得應(yīng)該讓有大學(xué)畢業(yè)的人收養(yǎng)我，所以我出生時，她就準(zhǔn)備讓我被一對律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。但是這對夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他們想收養(yǎng)女孩。所以在等待收養(yǎng)名單上的一對夫妻，我的養(yǎng)父母，在一天半夜里接到一通電話，問他們“有一名意外出生的男孩，你們要認(rèn)養(yǎng)他嗎？”而他們的回答是“當(dāng)然要”。后來，我的生母發(fā)現(xiàn)，我現(xiàn)在的媽媽從來沒有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，我現(xiàn)在的爸爸則連高中畢業(yè)也沒有。她拒絕在認(rèn)養(yǎng)文件上做最后簽字。直到幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證將來一定會讓我上大學(xué)，她的態(tài)度才軟化。

十七年后，我上大學(xué)了。但是當(dāng)時我無知地選了一所學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學(xué)，我那工人階級的父母將所有積蓄都花在我的學(xué)費(fèi)上。六個月后，我看不出念這個書的價值何在。那時候，我不知道這輩子要干什么，也不知道念大學(xué)能對我有什么幫助，只知道我為了念這個書，花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄，所以我決定休學(xué)，相信船到橋頭自然直。

當(dāng)時這個決定看來相當(dāng)可怕，可是現(xiàn)在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。

當(dāng)我休學(xué)之后，我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課，把時間拿去聽那些我有興趣的課。

這一點(diǎn)也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠著回收可樂空罐的退費(fèi)五分錢買吃的，每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個鎮(zhèn)去印度教的Hare Krishna神廟吃頓好料，我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好料。

就這樣追隨我的好奇與直覺，大部分我所投入過的事務(wù)，后來看來都成了無比珍貴的經(jīng)歷（And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on）。舉個例來說。

當(dāng)時里德學(xué)院有著大概是全國最好的書寫教育。校園內(nèi)的每一張海報上，每個抽屜的標(biāo)簽上，都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學(xué)了，可以不照正常選課程序來，所以我跑去上書寫課。我學(xué)了serif與sanserif字體，學(xué)到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學(xué)到活字印刷偉大的地方。書寫的美好、歷史感與藝術(shù)感是科學(xué)所無法掌握的，我覺得這很迷人。

我沒預(yù)期過學(xué)這些東西能在我生活中起些什么實際作用，不過十年后，當(dāng)我在設(shè)計第一臺麥金塔時，我想起了當(dāng)時所學(xué)的東西，所以把這些東西都設(shè)計進(jìn)了麥金塔里，這是第一臺能印刷出漂亮東西的計算機(jī)。

如果我沒沉溺于那樣一門課里，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟等比例間距字體了。又因為Windows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式，因此，如果當(dāng)年我沒有休學(xué)，沒有去上那門書寫課，大概所有的個人計算機(jī)都不會有這些東西，印不出現(xiàn)在我們看到的漂亮的字來了。當(dāng)然，當(dāng)我還在大學(xué)里時，不可能把這些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴預(yù)先串連在一起，但在十年后的今天回顧，一切就顯得非常清楚。

我再說一次，你無法預(yù)先把點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴串連起來；只有在未來回顧時，你才會明白那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴是如何串在一起的（you can‘t connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards）。所以你得相信，眼前你經(jīng)歷的種種，將來多少會連結(jié)在一起。你得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運(yùn)也好，生命也好，或者因果報應(yīng)。這種作法從來沒讓我失望，我的人生因此變得完全不同。我的第二個故事，是有關(guān)愛與失去。

我很幸運(yùn)－年輕時就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己愛做什么事。我二十歲時，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫里開始了蘋果計算機(jī)的事業(yè)。我們拼命工作，蘋果計算機(jī)在十年間從一間車庫里的兩個小伙子擴(kuò)展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億美金的公司，在那事件之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品－麥金塔計算機(jī)（Macintosh），那時我才剛邁入三十歲，然后我被解雇了。

我怎么會被自己創(chuàng)辦的公司給解雇了？

嗯，當(dāng)蘋果計算機(jī)成長后，我請了一個我以為在經(jīng)營公司上很有才干的家伙來，他在頭幾年也確實干得不錯?？墒俏覀儗ξ磥淼脑妇安煌詈笾缓梅值罁P(yáng)鑣，董事會站在他那邊，就這樣在我30歲的時候，公開把我給解雇了。我失去了整個生活的重心，我的人生就這樣被摧毀。

有幾個月，我不知道要做些什么。我覺得我令企業(yè)界的前輩們失望－我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創(chuàng)辦HP的David Packard跟創(chuàng)辦Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說很抱歉我把事情給搞砸了。我成了公眾眼中失敗的示范，我甚至想要離開硅谷。

但是漸漸的，我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我還是喜愛那些我做過的事情，在蘋果計算機(jī)中經(jīng)歷的那些事絲毫沒有改變我愛做的事。雖然我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來過。

當(dāng)時我沒發(fā)現(xiàn)，但現(xiàn)在看來，被蘋果計算機(jī)開除，是我所經(jīng)歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重被從頭來過的輕松所取代，每件事情都不那么確定，讓我自由進(jìn)入這輩子最有創(chuàng)意的年代。

接下來五年，我開了一家叫做NeXT的公司，又開一家叫做Pixar的公司，也跟后來的老婆（Laurene）談起了戀愛。Pixar接著制作了世界上第一部全計算機(jī)動畫電影，玩具總動員（Toy Story），現(xiàn)在是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司。然后，蘋果計算機(jī)買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發(fā)展的技術(shù)成了蘋果計算機(jī)后來復(fù)興的核心部份。

我也有了個美妙的家庭。

我很確定，如果當(dāng)年蘋果計算機(jī)沒開除我，就不會發(fā)生這些事情。這帖藥很苦口，可是我想蘋果計算機(jī)這個病人需要這帖藥。有時候，人生會用磚頭打你的頭。不要喪失信心。我確信我愛我所做的事情，這就是這些年來支持我繼續(xù)走下去的唯一理由（I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did）。

你得找出你的最愛，工作上是如此，人生伴侶也是如此。

你的工作將占掉你人生的一大部分，唯一真正獲得滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事（And the only way to do great work is to love what you do）。如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續(xù)找，別停頓。盡你全心全力，你知道你一定會找到。而且，如同任何偉大的事業(yè)，事情只會隨著時間愈來愈好。所以，在你找到之前，繼續(xù)找，別停頓。

我的第三個故事，是關(guān)于死亡。

當(dāng)我十七歲時，我讀到一則格言，好像是“把每一天都當(dāng)成生命中的最后一天，你就會輕松自在。（If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you‘ll most certainly be right）”

這對我影響深遠(yuǎn)，在過去33年里，我每天早上都會照鏡子，自問：“如果今天是此生最后一日，我今天要做些什么？”每當(dāng)我連續(xù)太多天都得到一個“沒事做”的答案時，我就知道我必須有所改變了。提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中面臨重大決定時，所用過最重要的方法。因為幾乎每件事－所有外界期望、所有的名聲、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最真實重要的東西才會留下（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 everythingthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important）。提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入畏懼失去的陷阱里最好的方法。人生不帶來、死不帶去，沒理由不能順心而為。

一年前，我被診斷出癌癥。我在早上七點(diǎn)半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現(xiàn)一個腫瘤，我連胰臟是什么都不知道。醫(yī)生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之癥，預(yù)計我大概活不了三到六個月。醫(yī)生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫(yī)生對臨終病人的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)建議。那代表你得試著在幾個月內(nèi)把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會盡量輕松。那代表你得跟人說再見了。我整天想著那個診斷結(jié)果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內(nèi)視鏡，穿過胃進(jìn)到腸子，將探針伸進(jìn)胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細(xì)胞出來。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場。她后來跟我說，當(dāng)醫(yī)生們用顯微鏡看過那些細(xì)胞后，他們都哭了，因為那是非常少見的一種胰臟癌，可以用手術(shù)治好。所以我接受了手術(shù)，康復(fù)了。

這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續(xù)是未來幾十年內(nèi)最接近的一次。經(jīng)歷此事后，我可以比先前死亡只是純粹想象時，要能更肯定地告訴你們下面這些：

沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。

但是死亡是我們共同的終點(diǎn)，沒有人逃得過。這是注定的，因為死亡很可能就是生命中最棒的發(fā)明，是生命交替的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代開出道路?，F(xiàn)在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞臺。抱歉講得這么戲劇化，但是這是真的。

你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費(fèi)時間活在別人的生活里。不要被教條所局限--盲從教條就是活在別人思考結(jié)果里。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內(nèi)在的心聲。最重要的，擁有追隨自己內(nèi)心與直覺的勇氣，你的內(nèi)心與直覺多少已經(jīng)知道你真正想要成為什么樣的人（have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become），任何其它事物都是次要的。

在我年輕時，有本神奇的雜志叫做《Whole Earth Catalog》，當(dāng)年這可是我們的經(jīng)典讀物。那是一位住在離這不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發(fā)行的，他把雜志辦得很有詩意。那是1960年代末期，個人計算機(jī)跟桌上出版還沒出現(xiàn)，所有內(nèi)容都是打字機(jī)、剪刀跟拍立得相機(jī)做出來的。雜志內(nèi)容有點(diǎn)像印在紙上的平面Google，在Google出現(xiàn)之前35年就有了：這本雜志很理想主義，充滿新奇工具與偉大的見解。

Stewart跟他的團(tuán)隊出版了好幾期的《Whole Earth Catalog》，然后很自然的，最后出了?？枴．?dāng)時是1970年代中期，我正是你們現(xiàn)在這個年齡的時候。在?？柕姆獾?，有張清晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，那種你四處搭便車冒險旅行時會經(jīng)過的鄉(xiāng)間小路。

在照片下印了行小字：求知若饑，虛心若愚（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish）。

那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。當(dāng)你們畢業(yè)，展開新生活，我也以此祝福你們。求知若饑，虛心若愚（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish）。

非常謝謝大家。

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