【正文】 ce 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。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。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。t see the value in had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it here I was spending all of 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。 rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5162。t connect the dots looking forward。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 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 you39。s 39。t waste it living someone else39。t let the noise of other39。最重要的，擁有跟隨內(nèi)心和直覺(jué)的勇氣。我從來(lái)沒(méi)從大學(xué)畢業(yè)過(guò)，說(shuō)實(shí)話(huà)，這是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一刻。到我退學(xué)前，一共休學(xué)了18個(gè)月。但是這對(duì)夫妻到了最后一刻反悔了，他們想收