【正文】 don39。s change agent。t want to die to get there, and 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 39。ve been to facing death, and I hope it39。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在，我痊愈了。后來有天晚上我做了一個活切片檢查，他們將一個內(nèi)窺鏡伸進我的喉嚨，穿過胃，到達腸道，用一根針在我的胰腺腫瘤上取了幾個細(xì)胞。就是意味著把要對你小孩說十年的話在幾個月內(nèi)說完；意味著把所有東西搞定，盡量讓你的家庭活得輕松一點；意味著你要說“永別”了。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家，整理一切。我當(dāng)時都不知道胰腺是什么東西。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 ，我被診斷出患了癌癥。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。你已經(jīng)赤裸裸了，沒有理由不聽從于自己的心愿。因為幾乎任何事——所有的榮耀、驕傲、對難堪和失敗的恐懼——在死亡面前都會消隱，留下真正重要的東西。從那以后，過去的三十三年，每天早上我都會對著鏡子問自己：“如果今天是我的最后一天，我會不會做我想做的事情呢？”當(dāng)答案持續(xù)否定一些次數(shù)后，我知道我需要改變一些東西了。我十七歲的時候讀到過一句話“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作最后一天過，有一天你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的”。ll be dead soon is the most important thing I39。My 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。就像任何真誠的關(guān)系，隨著時間的流逝，只會越來越緊密。如果你還沒有找到，那么就繼續(xù)找，不要停。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。不要喪失信心。這個藥的味道太糟了，但是我想病人需要它。ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll keep 39。t found it yet, keep looking, and don39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。s going to hit you in the head with a 39。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。我們在NeXT開發(fā)的技術(shù)在蘋果的復(fù)興中起了核心作用，另外勞琳和我組建了一個幸福的家庭。In 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。接下來的五年，我創(chuàng)立了一個叫NeXT的公司，接著又建立了Pixar，然后與后來成為我妻子的女人相愛。成功的重?fù)?dān)被重新起步的輕松替代，對任何事情都不再特別看重。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。我決定重新開始。這次失敗一點兒都沒有改變這一點。有個東西在慢慢地叫醒我。我與戴維德帕珂德和鮑勃諾埃斯見面，試圖為這徹頭徹尾的失敗道歉。一開始的幾個月我真的不知道該干什么。于是，在我三十歲的時候，我出局了，很公開地出局了。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(rèn)為非常聰明，可以和我一起經(jīng)營公司的人。我們工作得很努力，十年后，蘋果公司成長為擁有四千名員工，價值二十億的大公司。很早就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做的事情。d been rejected but I was still in so I decided to start 。d just turned thirty, and then I got can you get fired from a pany you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the pany with me, and for the first year or so, things went then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was really didn39。 garage when I was worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion pany with over 4,000 39。你必須相信一些東西你的勇氣、宿命、生活、因緣，隨便什么因為相信這些點滴能夠一路連接會給你帶來循從本覺的自信，它使你走離平凡，變得與眾不同。你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個點上看到將來；只有回頭看時，才會發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。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 ，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點上看到它與將來的關(guān)系。If 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 ，我決不會碰巧選了這門書法課，個人電腦也可能不會有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這么一門課，Macintosh 計算機絕不會有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計進了計算機中。s likely that no personal puter would have 。這是一種科學(xué)無法捕捉的微妙，楚楚動人、充滿歷史底蘊和藝術(shù)性，我覺得自己被完全吸引了。由于我已退學(xué)，不用修那些必修課，我決定選一門書法課上上。t capture, and I found it 。Reed 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。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。 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 。t all didn39。從我退學(xué)的那一刻起，我可以停止一切不感興趣的必修課，開始旁聽那些有意思得多的課。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒有做錯。六個月后，我覺得不值得。t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more 。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會讓我上大學(xué)，她妥協(xié)了。然后我的排在收養(yǎng)人名單中的養(yǎng)父母在一個深夜接到電話，“很意外，我們多了一個男嬰，你們要嗎？”“當(dāng)然要！”但是我的生母后來又發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母沒有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，養(yǎng)父連高中都沒有畢業(yè)。她有一個很強烈的信仰，認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該被一個大學(xué)畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。為何我要選擇退學(xué)呢？這還得從我出生之前說起。第一個故事，如何串連生命中的點滴I 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 theyreallywanted a my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We39。s big three first story is about connecting the 。老實說，我大學(xué)沒有畢業(yè)，今天恐怕是我一生中離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一次了。ve ever gotten to a college 。Thank 39。ve got to find what you love39。第二篇：喬布斯演講稿39。這也是我一直想做到的。那是他們?？暗母鎰e辭。最后一期的封底上是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，就是那種愛冒險的人等在那兒搭便車的那種小路。斯圖爾特和他的同事們出了好幾期《全球概覽》，到最后辦不下去時，他們出