【正文】 to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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。This was the start in my 17 years later, I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my workingclass parents39。她拒絕在領(lǐng)養(yǎng)書(shū)上簽字。于是，一對(duì)律師夫婦說(shuō)好了要領(lǐng)養(yǎng)我，然而最后一秒鐘，他們改變了主意，決定要個(gè)女孩兒。我的生母是一個(gè)年輕、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。ve got an unexpected baby you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later 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 go to ，但是在18個(gè)月之后我真正退學(xué)之前，我還常去學(xué)校。The first story is about connecting the ，如何串連生命中的點(diǎn)滴。s big three 。老實(shí)說(shuō)，我大學(xué)沒(méi)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 。第一篇：?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢４髮W(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講原稿和譯文喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講Thank 39。m honored to be with you today for your mencement from one of the finest universities in the be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I39。很榮幸能和你們，來(lái)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。Today I want to tell you three stories from my 39。沒(méi)什么大不了的，只是三個(gè)故事而已。I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a dropin for another 18 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 they really wanted a my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We39。為何我要選擇退學(xué)呢？這還得從我出生之前說(shuō)起。她有一個(gè)很強(qiáng)烈的信仰，認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該被一個(gè)大學(xué)畢業(yè)生家庭收養(yǎng)。然后我排在收養(yǎng)人名單中的養(yǎng)父母在一個(gè)深夜接到電話(huà)，“很意外，我們多了一個(gè)男嬰，你們要嗎？”“當(dāng)然要！”但是我的生母后來(lái)又發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母沒(méi)有大學(xué)畢業(yè)，養(yǎng)父連高中都沒(méi)有畢業(yè)。幾個(gè)月后，我的養(yǎng)父母保證會(huì)讓我上大學(xué)，她妥協(xié)了。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more 。六個(gè)月后，我覺(jué)得不值得。所以我決定退學(xué)，并且相信沒(méi)有做錯(cuò)。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(kāi)始旁聽(tīng)那些有意思得多的課。t all didn39。 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 。為了吃飯，我收集五分一個(gè)的舊可樂(lè)瓶，每個(gè)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。能夠遵循自己的好奇和直覺(jué)前行后來(lái)被證明是多么的珍貴。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。t capture, and I found it 。由于我已退學(xué)，不用修那些必修課，我決定選一門(mén)書(shū)法課上上。這是一種科學(xué)無(wú)法捕捉的微妙，楚楚動(dòng)人、充滿(mǎn)歷史底蘊(yùn)和藝術(shù)性，我覺(jué)得自己被完全吸引了。s likely that no personal puter would have 。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這么一門(mén)課，Macintosh計(jì)算機(jī)絕不會(huì)有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號(hào)。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(huì)碰巧選了這門(mén)書(shū)法課，個(gè)人電腦也可能不會(huì)有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。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(diǎn)上看到它與將來(lái)的關(guān)系。你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個(gè)點(diǎn)上看到將來(lái)；只有回頭看時(shí)，才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。你必須相信一些東西——你的勇氣、宿命、生活、因緣，隨便什么——因?yàn)橄嘈胚@些點(diǎn)滴能夠一路連接會(huì)給你帶來(lái)循從本覺(jué)的自信，它使你遠(yuǎn)離平凡，變得與眾不同。 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。d just turned 30, 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 30, I was out, and very publicly had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was really didn39。d been rejected but I was still in so I decided to start 。我二十歲的時(shí)候就和沃茨在父母的車(chē)庫(kù)里開(kāi)創(chuàng)了蘋(píng)果公司。我們剛剛推出了最好的創(chuàng)意，Macintosh操作系統(tǒng)，在這之前的一年，也就是我剛過(guò)三十歲，我被解雇了。一年后，我們對(duì)公司未來(lái)的看法產(chǎn)生分歧，董事會(huì)站在了他的一邊。我整個(gè)成年生活的焦點(diǎn)沒(méi)了，這很要命。我覺(jué)得我讓公司的前一代創(chuàng)建者們失望了，我把傳給我的權(quán)杖給弄丟了。帕珂德和鮑勃我敗得如此之慘以至于我想要逃離硅谷。這次失敗一點(diǎn)兒都沒(méi)有改變這一點(diǎn)。我決定重新開(kāi)始。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。成功的重?fù)?dān)被重新起步的輕松替代，對(duì)任何事情都不再特別看重，這讓我感覺(jué)如此自由，進(jìn)入一生中最有創(chuàng)造力的階段。Pixar出品了世界第一個(gè)電腦動(dòng)畫(huà)電影：“玩具總動(dòng)員”，現(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)是世界最成功的動(dòng)畫(huà)制作工作室了。s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family ，蘋(píng)果收購(gòu)了NeXT，我又回到了蘋(píng)果。I39。t been fired from was awfultasting medicine but I guess the patient needed life39。t lose 39。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 with all matters of the heart, you39。t ，如果我沒(méi)有被蘋(píng)果炒掉，這些就都不會(huì)發(fā)生。有些時(shí)候，生活會(huì)給你迎頭一棒。我確信唯一讓我一路走下來(lái)的是我對(duì)自己所做事情的熱愛(ài)。工作會(huì)占據(jù)你生命中很大的一部分，你只有相信自己做的是偉大的工作，你才能怡然自得。全心全意地找，當(dāng)你找到時(shí)，你會(huì)知道的。所以繼續(xù)找，不要停。ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and sin