【正文】 hat the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my ；只有回頭看時，才會發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。所以，要相信這些點遲早會連接到一起。你們必須信賴某些東西——直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。這樣做從來沒有讓我的希望落空過，而且還徹底改變了我的生活。My second story is about love and was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion pany with over 4000 had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned then I got can you get fired from a pany you started? 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 at 30 I was very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was 。幸運的是，我在很小的時候就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做什么。我在 20 歲時和沃茲（Woz，蘋果公司創(chuàng)始人之一 Wozon 的昵稱——譯注）在我父母的車庫里辦起了蘋果公司。我們干得很賣力，十年后，蘋果公司就從車庫里我們兩個人發(fā)展成為一個擁有 20 億元資產(chǎn)、4000 名員工的大企業(yè)。那時，我們剛剛推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品——Macintosh 電腦——那是在第 9 年，我剛滿 30 歲?？珊髞恚冶唤夤土?。你怎么會被自己辦的公司解雇呢？是這樣，隨著蘋果公司越做越大，我們聘了一位我認為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。在開始的一年多里，一切都很順利?？墒?，隨后我倆對公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。這時，董事會站在了他那一邊，所以在 30 歲那年，我離開了公司，而且這件事鬧得滿城風雨。我成年后的整個生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。I really didn39。t know what to do for a few 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 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 ，記住生命隨時都有可能結(jié)束。因為幾乎所有的東西——所有對自身之外的希求、所有的尊嚴、所有對困窘和失敗的恐懼——在死亡來臨時都將不復存在，只剩下真正重要的東西。記住自己隨時都會死去，這是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已經(jīng)一無所有了，還有什么理由不跟著自己的感覺走呢？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 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 ，我被診斷出癌癥。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描，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)生對臨終病人的標準建議。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，從胃進腸子，插了根針進胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。我打了鎮(zhèn)靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場。她后來跟我說，當醫(yī)生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞后，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)，康復了。This was the closest I39。ve been to facing death, and I hope it39。s the closest I get for a few more 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 people who want to go to heaven don39。t want to die to get yet death is the destination we all one has ever escaped that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of 39。s Life39。s change clears out the old to make way for the now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it39。s quite ，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，我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念時要更肯定告訴你們下面這些：沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。但是死亡是我們共有的目的地，沒有人逃得過。這是注定的，因為死亡簡直就是生命中最棒的發(fā)明，是生命變化的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代留下空間?，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。Your time is limited, so don39。t waste it living someone else39。s 39。t be trapped by dogmawhich is living with the results of other people39。s 39。t let the noise of others39。 opinions drown out your own inner most important, have the courage to follow your heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is ，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活里。不要被信條所惑——盲從信條就是活在別人思考的結(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，擁有跟隨內(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。任何其它事物都是次要的。When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the “bibles” of my was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late 60s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great ，有本神奇的雜志叫做 《Whole Earth Catalog》，當