【正文】 9。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事。我為什么要退學(xué)呢？It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for 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 that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy。所以在我出生的時候，她已經(jīng)做好了一切的準備工作，能使得我被一個律師和他的妻子所收養(yǎng)。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。t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked ,我真的上了大學(xué)。但是在這里，我?guī)缀趸ü饬宋腋改高@一輩子的所有積蓄。然后我還可以去修那些看起來有點意思的課程。 rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5162。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。在這個大學(xué)里面的每個海報, 每個抽屜的標簽上面全都是漂亮的美術(shù)字。None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh puter, it all came back to we designed it all into the was the first puter with beautiful I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Macwould have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal puter would have I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal puters might not have the wonderful typography that they course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years ，好像都沒有什么實際應(yīng)用的可能。如果我當時沒有退學(xué), 就不會有機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。t connect the dots looking forward。我把事情弄得糟糕透頂了。所以我決定從頭再來。這讓我覺得如此自由, 進入了我生命中最有創(chuàng)造力的一個階段。在后來的一系列運轉(zhuǎn)中,Apple收購了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。ve got to find what you 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 ,如果我不被Apple開除的話, 這其中一件事情也不會發(fā)生的。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。你只有相信自己所做的是偉大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。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。Remembering that I39。t let the noise of other39。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。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,、剪刀還有偏光鏡制造的。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。Thank you all very 。s big three first story is about connecting the dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a dropin for another eighteen months or so before I really why did I drop out? It started before I was biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for 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 my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We39。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn39。 returned Coke bottles for the fivecent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna loved much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later me give you one College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully I had dropped out and didn39。t connect the dots looking can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny, life, karma, whateverbecause believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the wellworn path, and that will make all the second story is about love and was found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents39。t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that 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 still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one 39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。t lose 39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。ll be dead soon is the most important thing I39。d have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few means to make sure that 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 doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine was the closest I39。s life39。t waste it living someone else39。t let the noise of others39。我從來沒有從大學(xué)中畢業(yè)。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點滴滴串連起來。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。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