【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 rds of a founder, “isn’t about capturing … what[’s] pretty or perfect … but … creates a space to … municat[e] with the full range of human emotion.”and so for four years you have been learning to retell things: finding your voices, putting yourself in a narrative, whether that was demanding action against climate change, discovering that you love statistics, or creating the powerful message of “i, too, am harvard.” you have seen things retold. even harvard’s story. last month one of my heroes, congressman john lewis, came to harvard yard to unveil a plaque on wadsworth house, documenting the presence of four enslaved inspaniduals who lived in the households of two harvard presidents. john lewis said, “we try to forget but the voices of generations have been calling us to remember.” titus, venus, bilhah and juba—their lives change our story. after three centuries, they have a voice. they, too, are harvard.telling a new story isn’t easy. it can take courage, and resolve. it often means leaving the safe path for the unknown, pelled, as john lewis put it, to “disturb the order of things.” and during your years here you have learned to make, as he urged, “good trouble, necessary trouble.”for years i have been telling students: find what you love. do what matters to you. it might be physics or neuroscience, or filmmaking or finance. but don’t settle for plot b, the safe story, the expected story, until you have tried plot a, even if it might require a miracle. i call this the parking space theory of life. don’t park 10 blocks away from your destination because you are afraid you won’t find a closer space. don’t miss your spot—don’t throw away your shot. go to where you think you want to be. you can always circle back to where you have to be. this can require patience and determination. steven spielberg was, in fact, late to class his first day as a student at california state university, because, as he put it, “i had to park so far away.” he went on to sneak onto movie sets, no matter how many times he got thrown off.“you shouldn39。t dream your film,” he has said, “you should make it!”perhaps this is the new jurassic parking space theory of life—don’t just tell your story, live it. your future is not a . it’s an attitude, a way of being that can create a new narrative no one may have thought possible, let alone probable:jeremy lin—harvard graduate, asianamerican—changed the narrative of professional basketball, still sizzling with “l(fā)insanity” when you arrived as freshmen.think about stephen hawking, who spoke to us last month through a speech synthesizer. he changed the narrative of the universe, a story about what ultimately will bee of all our stories—one he has been revising since he was your age, when he was given three years to live.and you are already changing the story:think of the astrophysics and mythology concentrator who started a mentorship program for women of color to change the narrative of who enters stem fields, and she wrote a science fiction novel to tell a new researchbased story about the galaxy.or think of the second lieutenant—one of 12 new harvard officers—who will serve her country in the . marines, battling not only the enemy, but persistent gender spanides. “how will that change,” she says, “unless we start now?”and think about the premed student who found himself literally running away from campus, fleeing in misery, until he suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned back, because he remembered he needed to be at a theater rehearsal where he had stage managing responsibilities. some 20 productions later, he has a theater directing fellowship for next year, and even his parents, as he puts it, now believe “that i am an artist.”value the ballast of custom, the foundations of knowledge, the weight of expectation. they, too, are important. but don’t be afraid to defy them.and don’t worry, as you feel the tug of these final days together. i am here to tell you that your harvard story is never done. in 1978, two freshmen watched a screening of the movielove story in the science center. three decades later, they met for the first time. and their wedding story appeared last month in the new york times.so, congratulations, class of 20xx. don’t forget from whence you came. change the narrative. rewrite the story. there is no one i would rather trust with that task.go well, 20xx.哈佛校長(zhǎng)福斯特演講中文人們也許會(huì)說(shuō)哈佛是天堂，充滿了各種難以想象的機(jī)遇和好運(yùn)——確實(shí)，我們每個(gè)人都有幸在她漫長(zhǎng)而成功的歷史中占有一席之地。但這也對(duì)我們提出了要求：我們有責(zé)任走出自己的舒適區(qū)，尋找屬于我們的挑戰(zhàn)，踐行哈佛奮斗不息的精神。在我準(zhǔn)備今天演講的時(shí)候， 我想到了音樂(lè)劇《漢密爾頓》中最后那首歌里的問(wèn)題：“誰(shuí)來(lái)講述你的故事?”我想這個(gè)問(wèn)題奠定了你們過(guò)去四年大學(xué)生活的基調(diào)，也將對(duì)你們未來(lái)作為哈佛畢業(yè)生和校友的生活產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)的影響，無(wú)論是作為公民或是領(lǐng)袖——誰(shuí)，來(lái)講述你的故事?是你，你要來(lái)講述你的故事!這就是今天我要對(duì)你們說(shuō)的話：講你自己的故事，一個(gè)充滿了無(wú)限可能性和新秩序的嶄新故事，這是每一代人的任務(wù)，也是現(xiàn)在擺在你面前的任務(wù)。你在哈佛所接受的文理博雅教育，將會(huì)用以下三種重要方式，幫助你去完成這項(xiàng)任務(wù)?！奥?tīng)別人的建議，做你自己的決定”講述你的故事意味著發(fā)現(xiàn)你自己是誰(shuí)——而不是成為別人認(rèn)為你的誰(shuí)。你要參考別人的意見(jiàn)，但要做出自己的決定。講述一個(gè)別人定義好的或別人希望聽(tīng)到的故事，那太容易了。哈佛的傳奇人物之一、可敬的彼得戈麥斯教授曾說(shuō)：“不要讓任何人替你把話說(shuō)完?！备犒溗菇淌谧约航?jīng)?！白韵嗝堋保钊穗y以捉摸，但永遠(yuǎn)忠于他自己：他是一位劍橋市的共和黨人(注：在哈佛所在的劍橋市，共和黨是少數(shù)派)。他是一位浸禮會(huì)的牧師，但同時(shí)是個(gè)同性戀(注：基督教大多不支持同性戀)。他是朝圣者協(xié)會(huì)的會(huì)長(zhǎng)，同時(shí)又是一位黑人(注：朝圣者協(xié)會(huì)白人居多)。他對(duì)自己的信仰堅(jiān)定不移，他不為外人的期望牽掛束縛。他說(shuō)：“我的不同尋常，讓開(kāi)啟新的對(duì)話變?yōu)榭赡?。”“開(kāi)啟與他人的對(duì)話，傾聽(tīng)他人的故事”開(kāi)啟新的對(duì)話，這是我的下一個(gè)重點(diǎn)。講述我們自己的故事并不意味著只關(guān)注我們自己。講故事是與他人對(duì)話，借此探尋更遠(yuǎn)大的目標(biāo)、探索其他的世界、探究不同的思維方式——你所受的教育不是一個(gè)真空的大泡沫。如果我們只講述單一的故事，那將是危險(xiǎn)的，就像諾大的場(chǎng)地只有一個(gè)逃生口，令所有人變得異常脆弱。單一的故事不一定是假的，但它是不完整的。所有的故事都很重要，不能把單一角度的故事變成唯一的故事。過(guò)去四年，你們感受到了傾聽(tīng)他人故事的益處，也體驗(yàn)到了忽略他人故事所帶來(lái)的危險(xiǎn)。只有意識(shí)到，世界上充滿了各種各樣的故事，我們才能想象一個(gè)不一樣的未來(lái)。21世紀(jì)的醫(yī)療是什么樣?能源是什么樣?移民是什么樣?城市將如何設(shè)計(jì)?面對(duì)這些問(wèn)題，你要問(wèn)的不是“我會(huì)成為什么樣的人”，而是“我能解決什么問(wèn)題”?“在不安和不確定中，不斷修正你的故事”這也引出了最后一個(gè)重點(diǎn)：不斷修正。每個(gè)故事其實(shí)都只是一個(gè)草稿，我們連最古老的傳說(shuō)都會(huì)不斷拿來(lái)重提——不管是漢密爾頓將軍的故事、美國(guó)獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的史詩(shī)、亦或是哈佛自己的歷史。好的教育之所以好，是因?yàn)樗屇阕⒉话玻鼜?qiáng)迫你不斷重新認(rèn)識(shí)我們自己和我們周遭的世界，并不斷去改變。斯蒂芬斯皮爾伯格將在畢業(yè)典禮上為我們演講，他就曾經(jīng)這樣解釋他創(chuàng)作的基石：“恐懼是我的動(dòng)力。當(dāng)我瀕臨走投無(wú)路的時(shí)候，那也是我遇見(jiàn)最好的想法的時(shí)候。”大學(xué)，不正是這樣一個(gè)讓每一個(gè)人都接受挑戰(zhàn)、讓每一個(gè)人都產(chǎn)生不確定性的地方嗎?就這樣，大學(xué)四年間，你都一直在學(xué)習(xí)重新講述你的故事：尋找你自己的聲音，將自己放入一個(gè)故事中——無(wú)論是對(duì)氣候變化采取反抗行動(dòng)，發(fā)現(xiàn)你對(duì)統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)的熱衷，還是發(fā)起了一項(xiàng)有意義的運(yùn)動(dòng)，你親眼目睹故事不斷被重新講述。“不要妥協(xié)，直奔你的目標(biāo)”這些年，我一直在告訴大家：追隨你所愛(ài)!去從事你真正關(guān)心的事業(yè)吧，無(wú)論是物理還是神經(jīng)科學(xué)，無(wú)論是金融還是電影制片。如果你想好了目的地，就直接往那里去吧。這就是我的“停車位理論”：不要因?yàn)橛X(jué)得肯定沒(méi)有停車位了，就把車停在距離目的地