【正文】 h of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later me give you one example:但是這并不是那么羅曼蒂克。t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends39。It wasn39。在我做出退學(xué)決定的那一刻, 我終于可以不必去讀那些令我提不起絲毫興趣的課程了。所以我決定要退學(xué),我覺(jué)得這是個(gè)正確的決定。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大學(xué)能幫助我找到怎樣的答案。但是我很愚蠢的選擇了一個(gè)幾乎和你們斯坦福大學(xué)一樣貴的學(xué)校, 我父母還處于藍(lán)領(lǐng)階層，他們幾乎把所有積蓄都花在了我的學(xué)費(fèi)上面。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。And 17 years later I did go to I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents39。她拒絕簽這個(gè)收養(yǎng)合同。但是她沒(méi)有料到,當(dāng)我出生之后,律師夫婦突然決定他們想要一個(gè)女孩。她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我, 她十分想讓我被大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)。do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high refused to sign the final adoption only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to 。I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a dropin for another 18 months or so before I really why did I drop out?我在Reed大學(xué)讀了六個(gè)月之后就退學(xué)了,但是在十八個(gè)月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前,我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三個(gè)故事而已。說(shuō)實(shí)話,今天也許是在我的生命中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一天了。s big three ，斯坦福大學(xué)是世界上最好的大學(xué)之一。I am honored to be with you today at your mencement from one of the finest universities in the never graduated from be told, this is the closest I39。 Jobs saysJobs說(shuō)，你必須要找到你所愛(ài)的東西。You39。喬布斯對(duì)操場(chǎng)上擠的滿滿的畢業(yè)生、校友和家長(zhǎng)們說(shuō)：―你的時(shí)間有限，所以最好別把它浪費(fèi)在模仿別人這種事上。t let the noise of others39。t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people39。t waste it living someone else39。it clears out the old to make way for the now, the new is someday, not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared to be so dramatic, but it39。s life39。s 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 one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don39。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。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 doctors39。ll be dead soon is the most important thing I39。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。t with all matters of the heart, you39。ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for 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 work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you you haven39。t lose 39。t been fired from was awfultasting medicine but I guess the patient needed life39。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family 39。t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my the next five years I started a pany named NeXT, another pany named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would bee my went on to create the world39。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。d just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I39。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 was found what I loved to do early in and I started Apple in my parents39。t capture, and I found it of this had even a hope of any practical application in my ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh puter, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the was the first puter with beautiful I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it39。 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 yo