【正文】 蘋果公司創(chuàng)始人之一 Wozon 的昵稱——譯注）在我父母的車庫(kù)里辦起了蘋果公司。你們必須信賴某些東西——直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。當(dāng)然，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點(diǎn)上看到它與將來(lái)的關(guān)系。這是第一臺(tái)有這么漂亮的文字版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價(jià)值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點(diǎn)科學(xué)就做不到，而我覺得它妙不可言。我給大家舉個(gè)例子:當(dāng)時(shí)，里德學(xué)院的書法課大概是全國(guó)最好的。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來(lái)買吃的。當(dāng)年做出這個(gè)決定時(shí)心里直打鼓，但現(xiàn)在回想起來(lái)，這還真是我有生以來(lái)做出的最好的決定之一。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。但是，我的生母后來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母不是大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，我的養(yǎng)父甚至連中學(xué)都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕在最后的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決定將我送給別人收養(yǎng)。今天我想給大家講三個(gè)我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個(gè)故事。you can only connect them looking you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingI 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 creationa 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 really didn’t know what to do for a few felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downI 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 didn’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 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 worlds first puter animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the 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 Laurene and I have a wonderful family ’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits you in the head with a ’t lose ’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I ’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 haven’t found it yet, keep ’t with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find , like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll keep looking until you find ’t third story is about 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 that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in almost everythingthese 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 a year ago I was diagnosed with had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my didn’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 doctor’s code for prepare to means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’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 and 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 I’m fine was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its 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 don’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 is Life’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 it is quite time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s ’t be trapped by dogmawhich is living with the results of other people’s ’t let the noise of other’s 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 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 1960’s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was