Steve Jobs：我的第三个故事是关于死亡

【演讲】Steve Jobs谈“死”前人生Steve Jobs：How to live before you die【演讲全文】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 usin 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 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 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. Ifyou haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like："If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself："If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is 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 moredecades. 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翻译：史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲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。

2023年乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿2023年乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿1我当时没有觉察，但后来发现，被苹果公司解雇可能是我这辈子发生的'最好的事情。

一个成功者的包袱没有了，有的只是一个初出茅庐者的轻松感觉，我对各种事情也不再那么胸有成竹。

这让我轻装上阵，进入了我生命中最有创造力的阶段之一。

今天，我很荣幸能来到贵校这所世界顶尖大学，参加你们的毕业典礼。

我没有念完大学。

老实说，今天是我一生中最接近大学毕业的日子。

今天我想告诉你们我生活中的三个故事，仅此而已。

不是什么大不了的事情，只是三个故事。

第一个故事是关于串连起生活的点滴我在里德大学读了六个月之后就退学了，但之后我又像在校生一样读了十八个月左右才彻底退学。

那么，我为什么要退学呢？这要从我出生前讲起。

我母亲生我的时候还是一个年轻、未婚的在校研究生，所以她决定让别人收养我。

她十分希望收养者是大学毕业生，并办妥了一切，我出生后就会由一位律师和他的妻子收养。

意外的是，我出生后，那对夫妻突然变卦，说他们其实想要一个女孩。

于是，当时还在等待名单上的我的养父母在半夜接到了一个电话，问他们说：“我们这儿有一个未婚出生的男婴，你们想要他吗？”他们回答：“当然要。

”但是，随后我的生母发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的养父甚至连高中都没读完。

她拒绝签订收养合同。

几个月以后，我的养父母承诺一定会让我上大学，她才让步。

十七年之后，我真的上了大学。

但是，我很幼稚地选择了一所学费几乎和你们斯坦福一样贵的学校。

我父母是工薪阶层，他们倾尽积蓄，支付了我的学费。

过了六个月，我却看不到这笔钱的价值。

我不知道我想要做什么，也不知道大学会怎样帮我找到答案，而我却在浪费着我父母一辈子的积蓄。

所以我决定退学，并坚信这是个正确的决定。

我当时非常害怕，但是现在回头看，那是我一生中最棒的决定之一。

一退学，我就可以不去读那些我不感兴趣的必修课，并开始上那些看起来很有意思的课程。

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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：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。

乔布斯斯坦福演讲：活出你自己[2009-12-18]坚信、坚持、坚定-- 生命中的三个故事编者按：2005年6月12日，在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上，苹果公司CEO乔布斯发表了精彩演讲。

已被确诊身患癌症的乔布斯对在场学子讲述了自己经历的三个故事，与学子们分享自己的创业心得，并以此激励年轻一代勇敢、积极、快乐地面对人生。

乔布斯朴实而真诚的演讲不但赢得了全场数次热烈鼓掌和尖叫，也成为近年美国毕业典礼演讲中最具影响力的一篇。

时至今日，这一演讲仍然对广大学子和创业者产生着深远影响。

以下为乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲全文：一、关于信仰：坚信“你要坚信，你现在所经历的，将在你未来的生命中串联起来。

正是这种信仰让我没有失去希望，它使我的人生与众不同”很荣幸今天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，而我从来没拿过大学毕业证。

说实话，在我的生命中，今天也许是我距离大学毕业最近的一天了。

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，只是三个故事而已。

第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点滴串连起来。

我在里德大学读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后——我真正作出退学决定之前，我还经常去学校。

我为什么要退学呢？故事得从我出生时讲起。

我的生母是一个年轻的、未婚的大学毕业生。

她决定让别人收养我，她非常希望我被受过高等教育的人收养。

所以在我出生的时候，她已经做好了一切准备工作，使我得以被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。

让她意外的是，当我出生之后，律师夫妇突然决定生个女孩。

所以我的养父母（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，你们想要吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我的生母随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学，我的养父甚至没读过高中。

她拒绝签收养合同。

直到几个月以后，我的养父母答应她一定会让我上大学，她才同意。

在十七岁那年，我真的上了大学。

但是我很愚蠢地选择了一个几乎和斯坦福大学一样昂贵的学校，我的养父母是工人，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上。

编者按：下文为苹果公司CEO史蒂夫?乔布斯（Steve Jobs）于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。

第一个故事即是乔布斯如何在职业生涯后期串联起生命的点滴。

串联自己的过去，可以帮助我们认识自己。

追寻自己的直觉和好奇心，在当前看来可能没有实际价值，但在自己生涯未来的某一天，在回顾时被串联起来，我们才能明白这些直觉和倾向对我们来说多么弥足珍贵！下划线部分可能会给大家些许启示。

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,今天也许是我有生以来离大学毕业典礼最近的一天了。

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,只是三个故事而已。

第一个故事是关于如何串起生命中的点点滴滴。

我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但之后作为旁听生又混了十八个月以后才真正离开。

我为什么要退学呢故事从我出生的时候讲起。

我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的、没有结婚的大学毕业生。

她决定让别人收养我, 但她觉得我一定要被大学毕业生收养。

所以她安排好了我出生时将被一个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（他们在待选名单上）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！"但是我亲生母亲随后发现，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。

她拒绝签署收养合同。

只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才软化同意。

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, 我父母是蓝领阶层，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。

我不知道我真正想要做什么,我也不知道大学能怎样帮助我找到答案。

但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的全部积蓄。

"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。

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。