【正文】 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.你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個(gè)點(diǎn)上看到將來；只有回頭看時(shí)，才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。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 pany 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 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 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.我的第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于好惡與得失。那時(shí)，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。可是，隨后我倆對(duì)公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。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.一連幾個(gè)月，我真的不知道應(yīng)該怎么辦。這次失敗弄得沸沸揚(yáng)揚(yáng)的，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。于是，我決定從頭開始。盡管前景未卜，但從頭開始的輕松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。世道輪回，蘋果公司買下 NeXT 后，我又回到了蘋果公司，我們?cè)?NeXT 公司開發(fā)的技術(shù)成了蘋果公司這次重新崛起的核心。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. Don39。t found it yet, keep looking. Don39。這是一劑苦藥，可我認(rèn)為苦藥利于病。工作將是生活中的一大部分，讓自己真正滿意的唯一辦法，是做自己認(rèn)為是有意義的工作；做有意義的工作的唯一辦法，是熱愛自己的工作。所以說，要不斷地尋找，直到找到自己喜歡的東西。17 歲那年，我讀到過這樣一段話，大意是:“如果把每一天都當(dāng)作生命的最后一天，總有一天你會(huì)如愿以償。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.讓我能夠做出人生重大抉擇的最主要辦法是，記住生命隨時(shí)都有可能結(jié)束。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 didn39。那天早上七點(diǎn)半，我做了一次掃描檢查，結(jié)果清楚地表明我的胰腺上長(zhǎng)了一個(gè)瘤子，可那時(shí)我連胰腺是什么還不知道呢！醫(yī)生告訴我說，幾乎可以確診這是一種無法治愈的惡性腫瘤，我最多還能活 3 到 6 個(gè)月。m fine now.那一整天里，我的腦子一直沒離開這個(gè)診斷。This was the closest I39。有了這次經(jīng)歷之后，現(xiàn)在我可以更加實(shí)在地和你們談?wù)撍劳?，而不是純粹紙上談兵，那就? 誰都不愿意死。它推進(jìn)生命的變遷，舊的不去，新的不來。t waste it living someone else39。t let the noise of others39。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感覺和直覺走的勇氣。S226。它就像一種紙質(zhì)的 Google，卻比 Google 早問世了 35 年。最后一期的封底上是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，就是那種愛冒險(xiǎn)的人等在那兒搭便車的那種小路。這也是我一直想