【正文】 做什么事。我二十歲時，跟SteveWozniak在我爸媽的車庫里開始了蘋果計(jì)算機(jī)的事業(yè)。我們拼命工作，蘋果計(jì)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，在那之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品－麥金塔，而我才剛邁入人生的第三十個年頭，然后被炒魷魚。要怎么讓自己創(chuàng)辦的公司炒自己魷魚？Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the pany with me, and for the first year or so things went then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling we did, our Board of Directors sided with so at 30, I was very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was ，當(dāng)蘋果計(jì)算機(jī)成長后，我請了一個我以為他在經(jīng)營公司上很有才干的家伙來，他在頭幾年也確實(shí)干得不錯。可是我們對未來的愿景不同，最后只好分道揚(yáng)鑣，董事會站在他那邊，炒了我魷魚，公開把我請了出去。曾經(jīng)是我整個成年生活重心的東西不見了，令我不知所措。I really didn39。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthat I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the something slowly began to dawn on me: I still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one had been rejected, but I was still in so I decided to start ，我實(shí)在不知道要干什么好。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DavidPackard跟創(chuàng)辦Intel的BobNoyce，跟他們說我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厲害了。我成了公眾的非常負(fù)面示范，我甚至想要離開硅谷。但是漸漸的，我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我還是喜愛著我做過的事情，在蘋果的日子經(jīng)歷的事件沒有絲毫改變我愛做的事。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。I didn39。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my ，但是現(xiàn)在看來，被蘋果計(jì)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。During the next five years, I started a pany named NeXT, another pany named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would bee my went on to create the world39。s first puteranimated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the 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 Apple39。s current Laurene and I have a wonderful family together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，也跟后來的老婆談起了戀愛。Pixar接著制作了世界上第一部全計(jì)算機(jī)動畫電影，玩具總動員，現(xiàn)在是世界上最成功的動畫制作公司。然后，蘋果計(jì)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(jì)算機(jī)后來復(fù)興的核心。我也有了個美妙的家庭I39。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed lifeSometimes life going to hit you in the head with a 39。t lose 39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。ve got to find what you ，如果當(dāng)年蘋果計(jì)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(jì)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，這就是這些年來讓我繼續(xù)走下去的唯一理由。你得找出你愛的，工作上是如此，對情人也是如此。And that is as true for your work as it is for 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 the only way to do great work is to love what you you haven39。t found it yet, keep lookingand don39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。ll know when you find like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll keep lookingdon39。t settle你的工作將填滿你的一大塊人生，唯一獲得真正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。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，如同任何偉大的關(guān)系，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。My third story is about death我的第三個故事，關(guān)于死亡When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you39。ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I39。ve 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?！惯@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，我今天要干些什么？」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變革了。Remembering that I39。ll be dead soon is the most important tool I39。ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in almost everythingall external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to are already is no reason not to follow your heart提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中下重大決定時，所用過最重要的工具。因?yàn)閹缀趺考拢型饨缙谕?、所有名譽(yù)、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最重要的東西才會留下。提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入自己有東西要失去了的陷阱里最好的方法。人生不帶來，死不帶去，沒什么道理不順心而為。About a year ago I was diagnosed with had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my didn39。t even know what a pancreas 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 doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor39。s code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you39。d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your means to say your goodbyes。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，我大概活不到三到六個月了。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I lived with that diagnosis all that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the 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 had the surgery and, thankfully, I39。m fine ，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內(nèi)視鏡，從胃進(jìn)腸子，插了根針進(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?yàn)槟鞘欠浅Ｉ僖姷囊环N胰臟癌，可以用手術(shù)治好。所以我接受了手術(shù)，康復(fù)了。This was th