【正文】 。眼下正值諸位大學(xué)畢業(yè)、開始新生活之際，我同樣愿大家: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.好學(xué)若饑、謙卑若愚。求知若渴，大智若愚。照片下面寫道: 好學(xué)若饑、謙卑若愚。那是 20 世紀(jì) 70 年代中期，我也就是你們現(xiàn)在的年紀(jì)。這份刊物太完美了，查閱手段齊備、構(gòu)思不凡。那是 20 世紀(jì) 60 年代末，還沒有個人電腦和桌面印刷系統(tǒng)，全靠打字機(jī)、剪刀和寶麗萊照相機(jī)（Polaroid）。布蘭德（Stewart Brand），就住在離這兒不遠(yuǎn)的門洛帕克市。s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.我年輕時有一本非常好的刊物，叫《全球概覽》（The Whole Earth Catalog），這是我那代人的寶書之一，創(chuàng)辦人名叫斯圖爾特amp。無論如何，感覺和直覺早就知道你到底想成為什么樣的人，其他都是次要的。不要讓別人觀點(diǎn)的聒噪聲淹沒自己的心聲。 opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to bee. Everything else is secondary.你們的時間都有限，所以不要按照別人的意愿去活，這是浪費(fèi)時間。s thinking. Don39。s life. Don39。Your time is limited, so don39?，F(xiàn)在，你們就是新的，但在不久的將來，你們也會逐漸成為舊的，也會被淘汰。我們注定會死，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡苁巧詈玫囊豁?xiàng)發(fā)明。就是那些想進(jìn)天堂的人也不愿意死后再進(jìn)。s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.這是我和死神離得最近的一次，我希望也是今后幾十年里最近的一次。ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having 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 die. Even people who want to go to heaven don39。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在好了。到了晚上，我做了一次組織切片檢查，他們把一個內(nèi)窺鏡通過喉嚨穿過我的胃進(jìn)入腸子，用針頭在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些細(xì)胞組織。I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later 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 tumor. I 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 surgery. I had the surgery and I39。醫(yī)生建議我回去把一切都安排好，其實(shí)這是在暗示“準(zhǔn)備后事”。d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.大約一年前，我被診斷患了癌癥。t even know what a pancreas was. The 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 months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor39。你已經(jīng)一無所有了，還有什么理由不跟著自己的感覺走呢。因?yàn)閹缀跛械臇|西─所有對自身之外的希求、所有的尊嚴(yán)、所有對困窘和失敗的恐懼─在死亡來臨時都將不復(fù)存在，只剩下真正重要的東西。ll be dead soon is the most important tool I39?！蔽矣涀×诉@句話，從那時起，33 年過去了，我每天早晨都對著鏡子自問: “假如今天是生命的最后一天，我還會去做今天要做的事嗎？”如果一連許多天我的回答都是“不”，我知道自己應(yīng)該有所改變了。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 something.我的第三個故事與死亡有關(guān)。不要半途而廢。就像任何一種美妙的東西，歷久彌新。你們?nèi)绻€沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡什么，那就不斷地去尋找，不要急于做出決定。所以，一定得知道自己喜歡什