【正文】 nd 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 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 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 thankfully 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 dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s ’t let the noise of others’ 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 all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final was the mid1970s, and I was your the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so it were the words: “Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed I have always wished that for now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you all very much.第二篇：喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)演講稿喬布斯斯坦福演講謝謝大家。很榮幸能和你們，來自世界最好大學(xué)之一的畢業(yè)生們，一塊兒參加畢業(yè)典禮。她有一個很強烈的信仰，認為我應(yīng)該被一個大學(xué)畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不曉得大學(xué)會怎樣幫我指點津，而我卻在花銷父母一生的積蓄。能夠遵循自己的好奇和直覺前行后來被證明是多么的珍貴。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計進了計算機中。所以你必須相信，那些點點滴滴，會在你未來的生命里，以某種方式串聯(lián)起來。你怎么可能被一個親手創(chuàng)立的公司解雇？事情是這樣的，在公司成長期間，雇傭了一個我們認為非常聰明，可以和我一起經(jīng)營公司的人。有些東西在呼喚我：我還愛著我從事的行業(yè)。Pixar出品了世界第一個電腦動畫電影：“玩具總動員”，現(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)是世界最成功的動畫制作工作室了。你必須去找你熱愛的東西，對工作如此，對你的愛人也是這樣的。這句話給我留下了深刻的印象。我當(dāng)時都不知道腺是什么東西。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在，我痊愈了。抱歉，這很戲劇性，但卻是真的。他用詩一般的觸覺將這份雜志帶到世界。這是他們的告別語，“求知若渴，虛心若我常以此勉勵自己。到我退學(xué)前，一共休學(xué)了18個月。直到幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證將來一定會讓我上大學(xué)，我生母的態(tài)度才軟化。這一點也不浪漫。書寫的美好、歷史感、藝術(shù)感是科學(xué)所不具備的，我覺得這很迷人。you can only connect them looking backwards）。在那事件之前1年推出了我們最棒的作品——麥金塔（Macintosh）電腦，那時我才剛開始30歲；然后，我被解雇了。但是漸漸地，我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我還是喜愛那些我做過的事情，在蘋果電腦中經(jīng)歷的那些事絲毫沒有改變我愛做的事。我很確定，如果當(dāng)年蘋果電腦沒開除我，就不會發(fā)生這些事情。如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續(xù)找，別停下來。此生當(dāng)我面臨重大抉擇時，提醒自己“馬上就要死了”，是我用過的最重要的方法。那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會盡量輕松。但是死亡是我們共同的終點，沒有人逃得過。那是位住在離這不遠的Menlo Park 的Stewart Brand發(fā)行的，他把雜志辦得很有詩意。那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。s likely that no personal puter would have I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals puters might not have the wonderful typography that they course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years , you can39。s first puteranimated feature film, “Toy Story,” and is now the most successful animation studio in the a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。t found it yet, keep looking, and don39。 code for “prepare to die.” It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you39。s quite time is limited, so don39。很榮幸能和你們，來自世界最好大學(xué)之一的畢業(yè)生們，一塊兒參加畢業(yè)典禮。她有一個很強烈的信仰，認為我應(yīng)該被一個大學(xué)畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。我看不出自己以后要做什么，也不曉得大學(xué)會怎樣幫我指點迷津，而我卻在花銷父母一生的積蓄。能夠遵循自己的好奇和直覺前行后來被證明是多么的珍貴。為了吃飯，我收集五分一個的舊可樂瓶，每個星期天晚上步行七英里到哈爾克里什納廟里改善一下一周的伙食。十七年后，我上大學(xué)了，但是我很無知地選了一所差不多和斯坦福一樣貴的學(xué)校，幾乎花掉我那藍領(lǐng)階層養(yǎng)父母一生的積蓄。為何我要選擇退學(xué)呢？這還得從我出生之前說起。 opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in