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乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲：我生命中的三个故事You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says★★★★★乔布斯说：你必须要找到你所钟爱的东西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.我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一（欢呼）。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了（笑）。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,也不是讲大道理，只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
我在里德学院（Reed College）读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在大约一年半以后——我真正作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校旁听。
那么，我为什么要退学呢?（呼声）故事的从我出生前讲起。
我的生母是一个年轻的、未婚的在校研究生。
她决定让别人收养我, 非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人。
所以，她已经安排好了一切，能使我一出生就被一名律师和他的妻子所收养。
但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。
所以我的生养父母（他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我生母随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父甚至从没有读过高中。
所以她拒绝在收养文件上签字。
没几个月,我的生母心软了，因为我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学。
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。
但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。
乔布斯的演讲三个故事读后感读完乔布斯演讲里的那三个故事，就感觉像是跟一个特酷的老大哥聊了会儿天，他把自己那些压箱底儿的人生经验就这么掏出来给你看了。
先说说第一个故事，关于串起生命中的点滴。
乔布斯讲他上大学的时候，各种瞎晃悠选课，还去学什么书法，当时看起来完全就是浪费时间嘛。
可是后来做苹果电脑的时候，那些书法知识就像魔法一样，让苹果电脑的字体和排版变得超级酷炫。
这就跟我们自己的生活一样啊，有时候我们干一些事儿，当下觉得没个卵用，就像我小时候特别爱拆小电器，我妈老骂我不务正业，可后来我对电子设备那些小零件啥的就特熟悉，捣鼓电脑啥的都比别人快。
乔布斯这故事就是告诉咱，人生就像一场寻宝游戏，那些看似没用的经历，指不定啥时候就变成宝藏了。
第二个故事是关于爱和失去。
他被自己亲手创立的苹果公司给踢出去了，这得多惨啊，就像自己养的娃突然不认自己了。
换做是我，估计得在家哭上个把月，然后就自暴自弃了。
可乔布斯呢，他说这是他人生中最棒的经历之一。
他在这期间又创立了皮克斯，做出了那些超棒的动画电影。
他就像是一个打不死的小强，而且在这个过程中，他发现了自己新的热爱。
这就好比你失恋了，觉得天都塌了，结果发现单身的时候能有更多时间做自己喜欢的事儿，还能遇见更好的人。
这个故事给我最大的启发就是，别害怕失败和失去，有时候这些就像是人生的一个急转弯，你以为要翻车了，其实是通往另一个精彩地方的入口。
最后那个关于死亡的故事，真的有点沉重但又特别醒脑。
乔布斯知道自己得了癌症，他把每一天都当成最后一天来过。
这让我想起我爷爷生病的时候，他就特别珍惜和家人在一起的时间。
乔布斯这么一说，我就觉得我们平常那些纠结的小事儿都太不值得了。
什么跟同事闹别扭啊，为了一点钱的事儿斤斤计较啊，在死亡面前都跟个屁似的。
我们就应该像乔布斯说的那样，勇敢地去追随自己的内心，别到死的时候才后悔自己没干这没干那。
乔布斯这三个故事啊，就像三把钥匙，打开了我对人生理解的新大门。
乔布斯演讲稿导读：范文乔布斯演讲稿【篇一：乔布斯演讲稿】这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEOSteveJobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
谢谢大家。
很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。
老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。
今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。
没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，但是在十八个月之后——我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。
为何我要选择退学呢？这还得从我出生之前说起。
我的生母是一个年轻、未婚的大学毕业生，她决定让别人收养我。
她有一个很强烈的信仰，认为我应该被一个大学毕业生家庭收养。
于是，一对律师夫妇说好了要领养我，然而最后一秒钟，他们改变了主意，决定要个女孩儿。
然后我的排在收养人名单中的养父母在一个深夜接到电话，“很意外，我们多了一个男婴，你们要吗？”“当然要！”但是我的生母后来又发现我的养母没有大学毕业，养父连高中都没有毕业。
她拒绝在领养书上签字。
几个月后，我的养父母保证会让我上大学，她妥协了。
这是我生命的开端。
十七年后，我上大学了，但是我很无知地选了一所差不多和斯坦福一样贵的学校，几乎花掉我那蓝领阶层养父母一生的积蓄。
六个月后，我觉得不值得。
我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不晓得大学会怎样帮我指点迷津，而我却在花销父母一生的积蓄。
所以我决定退学，并且相信没有做错。
一开始非常吓人，但回忆起来，这却是我一生中作的1最好的决定之一。
从我退学的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感兴趣的必修课，开始旁听那些有意思得多的课。
事情并不那么美好。
我没有宿舍可住，睡在朋友房间的地上。
为了吃饭，我收集五分一个的旧可乐瓶，每个星期天晚上步行七英里到哈尔-克里什纳庙里改善一下一周的伙食。
我喜欢这种生活方式。
能够遵循自己的好奇和直觉前行后来被证明是多么的珍贵。
苹果CEO乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学的演讲稿I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college. 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.我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
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Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。
我为什么要退学呢？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 go to college. This was the start in my life. 故事从我出生的时候讲起。
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乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲(英文)New York: 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 birthby 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 signthe 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, it's 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 thedots 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 down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with DavidPackard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but 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.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure 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 abrick. 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. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart,you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, allfear 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.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 isdoctor'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 avery 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 it's 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.(中文译文)我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲英文原文Stanford Report, June 14, 2005…You‟ve got to find what you love,‟ Jobs saysThis 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 unexpecte d 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 ca pture, 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 down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn‟t see it then, but 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.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 retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple‟s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I‟m pretty sure 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 h its 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. Don‟t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you‟ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don‟t settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you‟ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I‟ll be dead soon is the most important tool I‟ve ever encountered to help me make the big cho ices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fallaway 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.You r 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 other‟s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importan t, 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.。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：我人生的三个故事这是苹果电脑公司兼皮克斯动画公司的ＣＥＯ史蒂夫·乔布斯于2005年6月12日在斯坦佛大学毕业典礼上作的极富启发意义的演讲。
今天，我很荣幸能与你们一起参加你们的毕业典礼，斯坦佛大学是世界上最优秀的大学之一。
我根本不是一个大学毕业生。
说实话，这一次是我与大学毕业典礼最近距离的接触。
今天，我想给大家讲三个故事，它们来源于我的生活。
仅此而已，没什么大不了的，只是三个故事。
第一个故事是有关生活中的一切来龙去脉。
在呆了六个月之后，我便从里德学院辍学了，但在那之后，我以旁听者的身份在学院里又呆了18个月才真正离开大学。
那么，我为什么要辍学呢？话还要从我出生之前说起。
我的生母是一个年轻的未婚大学毕业生，她决定把我送去他人家收养，并坚持认为，收养我的人必须是大学毕业生。
在我出生前，所有关于收养我的事宜都已经安排妥当了。
我本该被一个律师和他的妻子收养，但等到我真正出生了，他和他的妻子却在最后时刻决定他们真正想要的是个女孩。
所以，我现在的养父母（他们当时在等候名单上）在半夜接到一通电话，“我们有一个意外出生的男孩，你们想收养他吗？”他们答复说，“当然想。
”但后来，我的生母发现了我的养母不是大学毕业生，而我的养父甚至连高中中学都没有毕业，于是她回绝在最终的收养文件上签字。
几个月后，她才最后妥协了，因为我的养父母保证以后会送我去上大学。
十七年过去了，我真地上了大学。
但我却很天真地挑了一个和斯坦福大学一样学费昂贵的学校，光是学费就花掉了我养父母辛辛苦苦积累多年的积蓄，他们只是工薪阶层。
在学校待了六个月后，我看不出这学费花得值得。
我不知道我的人生计划是什么，也不知道大学能够如何帮助我找到这一目的。
而且，我在学校念书会花掉养父母一生的积蓄。
于是，我决定辍学，并深信这是一个正确的决定。
当时，这是一个相当冒险的举动，但今天回头看看，那是我做出的最明智的决定之一。
辍学之后，我马上逃离了那些我对之乏味的课程，转而开始旁听那些看起来很有趣的科目。
品读乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿：三段故事的启示：大家好！今天我想和大家分享一下对于乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲的一些感悟与思考。
我相信这将会是一次很有意义的品读之旅。
他的演讲中，讲到了三段故事，为我们展示了在人生旅途中应该如何看待挫折和困难。
这三个故事与他的个人经历相联系，而在这三段经历之中，我们可以从中获得有趣的启示和深刻的思考。
第一个故事，是关于他在学院期间的自发兴趣学习经历。
乔布斯讲述了他在学院时即便没有注册的一些课程，也不会错过他所感兴趣的课程。
通过这些多样的学习经历，他获得了开阔的视野和独特的思维方式。
在这个过程中，乔斯并没有追逐所谓的“成功”或者眼花缭乱的奖项，他注重的是对于自己感兴趣的事情的认识和探究。
我们知道，创新和进步往往源于人类对于未知的好奇心和求知欲。
在学习中，如果我们仅仅局限于所谓的课程范围，不拓宽自己需要的知识和智慧，那么便会失去了创造性思考和信心。
因此，乔布斯引用卡拉韦罗的话：“Stay hungry, stay foolish,”告诉我们，无论是在学习还是在生活中，都要保持对于新事物的探究和欣赏，否则我们将永远受困于自己的舒适区。
第二个故事，是他创业失败的经历。
当时，他离开了苹果公司并创立了NeXT，然而NeXT公司最终也无法达到盈利目标而被苹果公司并购。
这是一次失败的经历，但他并没有因此而沮丧。
反而，他获得了创造另一种不同的技术蓝图和巨大的支持者群体。
他告诉我们，失败并不意味着绝望和沮丧，而是要像乔布斯一样，从失败中获得教训和洞察，并将这些作为不断改进的动力，迎接新的机会和挑战。
当我们面对失败时，不要抱怨和自怨自艾，而是要用积极的心态去看待一切，在失败中寻找新的可能。
第三个故事，是关于他的癌症、对人生价值的思考以及他发自内心对未来的期待和希望。
我们可以看到，乔布斯的人生经历充满了挫折、失败和痛苦。
然而他始终保持了积极的心态和对于人生的理解和思考。
他作为一名科技界领袖，始终认为科技的意义和价值在于为人类服务，在于提升人的生活质量和创新空间。
"You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says ★★★★★乔布斯说：你必须要找到你所钟爱的东西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.我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一（欢呼）。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了（笑）。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,也不是讲大道理，只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
我在里德学院（Reed College）读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在大约一年半以后——我真正作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校旁听。
那么，我为什么要退学呢?（呼声）故事的从我出生前讲起。
我的生母是一个年轻的、未婚的在校研究生。
她决定让别人收养我, 非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人。
所以，她已经安排好了一切，能使我一出生就被一名律师和他的妻子所收养。
但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。
所以我的生养父母（他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我生母随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父甚至从没有读过高中。
所以她拒绝在收养文件上签字。
没几个月,我的生母心软了，因为我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学。
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。
但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。
在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。
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故事要从我出生之前说起。
我的生母是一名年轻的未婚妈妈，我出生时她还在读研究生，于是决定把我送给其他人收养。
她坚持我应该被一对念过大学的夫妇收养，所以在我出生的时候，她已经为我被一名律师和他的太太收养做好了万全的准备。
但在最后一刻，这对夫妇改变了收养一名男孩的主意。
这时候选名单上的另外一对夫妇，也就是我的养父母决定收养我。
但事后，我的生母才发现养母根本就没有从大学毕业，而养父甚至连高中都没有毕业，所以她拒绝签署最后的收养文件，直到几个月后，我的养父母保证会把我送到大学，她的态度才有所转变。
17岁那年，我愚蠢地选择了一所几乎和斯坦福大学一样贵的学校。
我父母处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。
6个月之后，我发现自己完全不知道这样念下去究竟有什么用，所以决定退学。
当时做这个决定的时候我其实是非常害怕的，现在回头去看，这是我一生所作出的最正确的决定之一。
从我退学的那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些我毫无兴趣的必修课了，并且开始旁听那些看来比较有意思的科目。
但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。
因为自己没有宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房间的地板上；我去捡5美分的可乐瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子；在星期天的晚上，我需要走7英里的路程，穿过整个城市，只是为了能吃上饭———这个星期惟一一顿好一点的饭。
但是我喜欢这样。
我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走，遇到了很多东西，此后被证明是无价之宝。
由于已经退学，不用再去上那些常规的课程，于是我选择了一个书法班，想学学怎样才能写出一手漂亮字。
在这个班上，我学习了各种衬线和无衬线字体，改变不同字体组合间距的方法，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。
那是一种科学永远无法捕捉的充满美感、历史感和艺术感的微妙事物，这太有意思了。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲中文译文Steve Jobs说，你得找出你爱的(You’ve got to find what you love.)。
今天，有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。
我从来没从大学毕业。
说实话，这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。
今天，我只说三个故事，不谈大道理，三个故事就好。
第一个故事，是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。
我在里德学院（Reed college）待了六个月就办休学了。
到我退学前，一共休学了十八个月。
那么，我为什么休学？这得从我出生前讲起。
我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生，年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我。
她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我，所以我出生时，她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。
但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他们想收养女孩。
所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，我的养父母，在一天半夜里接到一通电话，问他们「有一名意外出生的男孩，你们要认养他吗？」而他们的回答是「当然要」。
后来，我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的爸爸则连高中毕业也没有。
她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签字。
直到几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。
十七年后，我上大学了。
但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学，我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。
六个月后，我看不出念这个书的价值何在。
那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助，而且我为了念这个书，花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄，所以我决定休学，相信船到桥头自然直。
当时这个决定看来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我这辈子做过最好的决定之一。
当我休学之后，我再也不用上我没兴趣的必修课，把时间拿去听那些我有兴趣的课。
这一点也不浪漫。
我没有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的，每个星期天晚上得走七里的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的Hare Krishna神庙吃顿好料。
我生命中的三个故事――乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼致辞或许，暂时的挫折在所难免。
但有首歌唱得好，“人生好比大海的波浪，有时起有时落……会拚才会赢”!在这里预先加油，希望你们愈挫愈勇，勇不可当，最终必定成就人生梦想!乔布斯XX年在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼致辞：我生命中的三个故事我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,也不是讲大道理，只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
我在里德学院(Reed College)读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在大约一年半以后——我真正作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校旁听。
那么，我为什么要退学呢?故事的从我出生前讲起。
我的生母是一个年轻的、未婚的在校研究生。
她决定让别人收养我, 非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人。
所以，她已经安排好了一切，能使我一出生就被一名律师和他的妻子所收养。
但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。
所以我的生养父母(他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道:“当然!”但是我生母随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父甚至从没有读过高中。
所以她拒绝在收养文件上签字。
没几个月,我的生母心软了，因为我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学。
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。
但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。
在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。
我不知道自己想要在一生中做什么,我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。
但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。
所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。
励志故事：乔布斯的三个故事史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Paul Jobs)苹果电脑公司和皮克斯动画公司(Pixar)首席执行官。
以下是Steve Jobs在2005年6月12日斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲。
今天，有荣幸来到各位从世界上最好的学校之一毕业的毕业典礼上。
我从来没从大学毕业。
说实话，这是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。
今天，我只说三个故事，不谈大道理，三个故事就好。
第一个故事：关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。
我在里德学院(Reed college)待了六个月就办休学了。
到我退学前，一共休学了十八个月。
那么，我为什么休学？这得从我出生前讲起。
我的亲生母亲当时是个研究生，年轻未婚妈妈，她决定让别人收养我。
她强烈觉得应该让有大学毕业的人收养我，所以我出生时，她就准备让我被一对律师夫妇收养。
但是这对夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他们想收养女孩。
所以在等待收养名单上的一对夫妻，我的养父母，在一天半夜里接到一通电话，问他们有一名意外出生的男孩，你们要认养他吗？而他们的回答是当然要。
后来，我的生母发现，我现在的妈妈从来没有大学毕业，我现在的爸爸则连高中毕业也没有。
她拒绝在认养文件上做最后签字。
直到几个月后，我的养父母同意将来一定会让我上大学，她才软化态度。
十七年后，我上大学了。
但是当时我无知选了一所学费几乎跟史丹佛一样贵的大学，我那工人阶级的父母所有积蓄都花在我的学费上。
六个月后，我看不出念这个书的价值何在。
那时候，我不知道这辈子要干什么，也不知道念大学能对我有什么帮助，而且我为了念这个书，花光了我父母这辈子的所有积蓄。
所以我决定休学，相信船到桥头自然直。
当时这个决定看来相当可怕，可是现在看来，那是我这辈子做过最好的决定之一。
当我休学之后，我再也不用上我没兴趣的必修课，把时间拿去听那些我有兴趣的课。
这一点也不浪漫。
我没有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家里的地板上，靠着回收可乐空罐的五先令退费买吃的，每个星期天晚上得走七里的路绕过大半个镇去印度教的HareKrishna神庙吃顿好料。
乔布斯最精彩的演讲：这三个故事决定了我的⼀⽣从对电脑的痴迷到挚爱，25岁就成为亿万富翁的背后，是努⼒和执着。
乔布斯在斯坦福⼤学毕业演讲上讲述⽣命中的三个故事，描述他对⽣命、对商业的超凡理解，回味经典，品味⼈⽣。
这是乔布斯⽣前最著名的⼀次演讲。
演讲的视频在Youtube上累计有数亿阅览量。
看完视频，或许你能理解为什么苹果会成为经典、会成为绝⼤多数⼈的不⼆选择！▲乔布斯演讲中英⽂字幕▲以下为演讲全⽂：很荣幸能和你们，来⾃世界最好⼤学之⼀的毕业⽣们，⼀块⼉参加毕业典礼。
⽼实说，我⼤学没有毕业，⽽今天恐怕是我⼀⽣中离⼤学毕业最近的⼀次。
今天我想告诉⼤家来⾃我⽣活的三个故事。
没什么⼤不了，只是三个故事⽽已。
1第⼀个故事：如何串连⽣命中的点滴我在⾥得⼤学读了六个⽉就退学了，但是在18个⽉之后，在真正退学之前还常去学校。
为何我要选择退学呢？这还得从我出⽣之前说起。
我的⽣母是⼀个年轻、未婚的⼤学毕业⽣，她决定让别⼈收养我。
她有很强烈的信仰，想让我成长在⼀个⼤学毕业⽣的家庭⾥。
有⼀对律师夫妇说好了要领养我，然⽽最后时刻，他们改变了主意，决定要个⼥孩。
然后，我排在收养⼈名单中的养⽗母在⼀个深夜接到电话，"很意外，我们多了⼀个男婴，你们要吗？""当然要！"但是我的⽣母后来⼜发现养母没有⼤学毕业，养⽗甚⾄连⾼中都没有毕业，于是她拒绝在领养书上签字。
⼏个⽉后，我的养⽗母保证会让我上⼤学，她妥协了。
这便是我⽣命的开端。
⼗七年后，我上⼤学了，但是我⽆知地选了⼀所和斯坦福⼀样贵的学校，⼏乎花掉蓝领阶层养⽗母⼀⽣的积蓄。
六个⽉后，我觉得这并不值得，我看不出⾃⼰以后要做什么，也不知晓⼤学会怎样帮我指点迷津，⽽我却在花销⽗母⼀⽣的积蓄。
所以我决定退学，并且相信没有做错。
⼀开始⾮常吓⼈，但回忆起来，这却是我⼀⽣中作的最好的决定之⼀。
从我退学的那⼀刻起，我可以停⽌⼀切不感兴趣的必修课，开始旁听那些有意思得多的课。
励志故事：乔布斯的三个故事【3篇】史蒂夫·乔布斯是苹果电脑公司和皮克斯动画公司首席执行官。
下面是书包范文为小伙伴们精心整理的励志故事：乔布斯的三个故事【3篇】，希望能够对您的写作有一点启发。
篇一：苹果CEO乔布斯篇一大会上，当人们聚焦于今年的盖茨的笑料的时候，像往常一样穿着黑色高领衫加牛仔裤的苹果首席执行官史蒂夫。
乔布斯没让他的Fans失望，还是发出了名言：“微软再次抄我们，这很有意思。
”乔布斯说：“从抄袭最初的Mac开始的10年间，它们的确改进了不少，但是还是有很大的差距。
我过去经常告诉比尔，我们是最便宜的研究与设计。
”不过不管怎么说，10年间，苹果电脑的全球市场份额从9.4%下降到2.3%，其他都是由微软控制着。
回想1 997年初，也就是乔布斯重返苹果电脑不久，他还无比认真地朝盖茨讲：“比尔，我们共同控制了100%的桌面系统。
”当然，骄傲的盖茨对此报以沉默，盖茨或许在想：事实上我基本独自控制了整个产业。
但在谈判之后，盖茨私下里告诉他的朋友，自己一直惧怕乔布斯的光芒：“这家伙太可怕了。
”的确，无论在财富方面，还是市场上，盖茨都超越了很多人，但在心理上，以及财富所能控制以外的一些领域，乔布斯都是盖茨永远无法战胜的就像无论《指环王》里的魔王索隆多么强大，他都无法在阿拉贡前面讨得便宜，而且，阿拉贡才是人们心目中的国王他不仅是苹果电脑的创始人，动画业新贵Pixar的所有者，最重要的是，他还是全球最酷最特立独行的企业家、IT产业的艺术家、商界与文艺界的时尚先锋，以及黑客们不朽的偶像。
连甲骨文的CEO埃利森这种玩世不恭的花花公子都不得不承认自己一直嫉妒乔布斯，即使在后者的财富远不如自己的时候，他还是无法在影响力上超越乔布斯。
虽然乔布斯比盖茨更早成为亿万富翁，但在之后的日子里，他的经历远比盖茨更加跌宕。
尽管如此，至今乔布斯仍是硅谷乃至全世界的风云人物，这至少说明，面对失控的局面，他有多么强韧。
就仿佛海明威笔下那个与大海搏斗的老人：“你可以xxxx他，但你就是打不败他。
Thank you.I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement(开始开端，毕业典礼) from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never gradua ted from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduatio n. 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 aft er the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 mo nths 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 gradu ate 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 pop ped 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 ni ght asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high sch ool. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few mo nths later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.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 t he money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. It was pr etty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I eve r 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 in teresting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in fr iends' rooms. I returned coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food wit h, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get o ne good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of w hat I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be p riceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in th e country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have t o take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how t o do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amo unt of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typ ography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that scien ce 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 c ollege, the "Mac" would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally s paced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no perso nal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have nev er dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connec t the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 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 -- because believing that the dots will connect down the road will g ive you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the w ell-worn path, and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky -- I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz1 and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 year s Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a two billion dol lar company with over 4000 employees. We'd 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? W ell, 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. And so at 30, I was o ut. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life wa s gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the pre vious generation of entrepreneurs down -- that I had dropped the baton（接力棒）as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyceand tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, a nd 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 h ad not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the be st thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successf ul was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about ev erything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another compan y named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature fi lm, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation（动画）studio in th e world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure 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. Someti me life -- Sometimes life going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't los e 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 goin g 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 settl e. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like an y great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking -- don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each da y as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an i mpression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I've looked in the mir ror 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 someth ing.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encou ntered 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 th e trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There i s 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 m orning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know wh at a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of ca ncer 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 and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a fe w 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（切片检查）, where they stuck an endoscope（内视镜）down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines（肠）, put a needle into my pancreas（胰腺）and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated（安静的）, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the do ctors 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, thankfully, I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I ge t 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 ye t death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that i s as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Lif e. It's Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Rig ht now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradual ly become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trap ped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. D on't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And mo st important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They someho w 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 broug ht it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 60s, before personal co mputers 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, overflowing with neat tools and g reat 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-197 0s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photogra ph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhi king 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've always wished that for myself. And now, as you grad uate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.。
