【正文】 we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple39。m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn39。t lose 39。ve got to find what you that is as true for your 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 the only way to do great work is to love what you you haven39。t with all matters of the heart, you39。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。ll be dead soon is the most important tool I39。s 39。s opinions drown out your own inner most important, have the courage to follow your heart and somehow already know what you truly want to else is I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic was in the late 196039。我從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。今天，我想給你們講我生活中的三個故事。沒什么大不了的。第一個故事是關(guān)于把我生活中過去的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴聯(lián)系起來。但是，在我真正離開那里前，我又呆了大約18個月。我的親生母親是一個年輕的未婚大學(xué)生。她堅(jiān)持認(rèn)為，我應(yīng)該被有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人收養(yǎng)。但是當(dāng)我出生以后，律師夫婦在最后一分鐘決定他們真正想要的是一個女孩。他們在半夜接到了一個電話，“我們有一個意料之外的男嬰?！蔽业挠H生母親后來發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，而我的養(yǎng)父高中都沒有畢業(yè)。過了幾個月后，我的養(yǎng)父母向她保證我將來會上大學(xué)后，她才同意了。但是我天真的選擇了一個幾乎和斯坦福一樣昂貴的學(xué)院。六個月后，我看不到這有任何價值。我不知道大學(xué)如何能幫我找到這一問題的答案。所以，我決定輟學(xué)，而且相信所有的這一切都會解決的。但是，回過頭來看，這是我做過的最好的決定之一。這并不浪漫。我回收可樂瓶，用得到的5美分買吃的。我喜歡那的飯。讓我給你們舉一個例子：那時，Reed學(xué)院提供了當(dāng)時可能是全國最好的書法課程。因?yàn)槲逸z學(xué)了，不用再去上正常的課程，我決定上書法課，去學(xué)學(xué)如何寫書法。這一切都很優(yōu)美，有歷史感，具有科學(xué)無法獲得的藝術(shù)的精巧。對書法的學(xué)習(xí)看起來沒有任何機(jī)會在我的一生中得到實(shí)際的應(yīng)用。我們把字體的設(shè)計(jì)都放入了Mac，第一個有著優(yōu)美字體的電腦。因?yàn)?Windows只是照搬了Mac，有可能沒有任何個人電腦會有這樣的字體。當(dāng)然，當(dāng)我在大學(xué)時，把我當(dāng)時的一點(diǎn)一滴串起來并不能預(yù)測到我后來的結(jié)果。當(dāng)然，你不能把事情聯(lián)系在一起而預(yù)測未來。所以，你一定要相信那些點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴在將來一定會以某種形式聯(lián)系起來。這一方法從沒有讓我失望過。我的第二個故事是有關(guān)熱愛與失去。在我20歲的時候，Woz和我在我父母的車庫里創(chuàng)建了蘋果公司。10年內(nèi)，蘋果從一個只有我們兩個人的車庫公司成長到20億美金，有4000員工的公司。然后，我被解雇了。第一年，都還不錯。最終我們鬧翻了。結(jié)果是，我在30歲的時候被踢出了公司，而且是以盡人皆知的方式被踢出。有幾個月的時間，我真的不知道做什么好。我找到David Packard和Bob Noyce并向他們道歉，為我把事情搞得如此之糟道歉。我甚至想到從硅谷逃走。在蘋果所發(fā)生的事情絲毫沒有改變這一點(diǎn)。所以，我決定重新開始。成功所帶來的沉重感被重新開始，對一切都不確定的輕松感所代替。之后的5年，我創(chuàng)辦了一家叫NeXT的公司和另外一家叫Pixar的公司，還愛上了一個非常好的女人，后來她成為了我的妻子。現(xiàn)在，Pixar是世界上最成功的動畫工作室。我重返了蘋果。Laurene和我有一個美好的家庭。這是一計(jì)苦藥，但是我想我這個病人需要它。別失去信心。你一定要找到你所熱愛的。你的事業(yè)將會占據(jù)你生活的很大一部分，你真正得到滿足的唯一途徑就是去做你堅(jiān)信是偉大的事業(yè)。如果你還沒有找到，繼續(xù)找。就像其他一切需要用心靈去感受的事物，當(dāng)你找到的時候，你會知道的。所以，繼續(xù)找吧，直到你找到。我的第三個故事是有關(guān)死亡的?！边@句話給我留下了深刻的印象，從那以后，在之后的33年里，我每天早晨都會對著鏡子問自己“如果今天是我生命的最后一天，我還會去做我今天將要做的事情嗎？”而每當(dāng)連續(xù)幾天我的回答總是“不”時，我知道我需要做些改變。因?yàn)閹缀跞魏问虑?— 所有外界的期望，所有的自尊，所有對失敗或丟臉的恐懼 — 在死亡面前都會煙消云散，只剩下那些真正重要的東西。你已經(jīng)赤條條無牽掛。一年前我被診斷為癌癥。掃描清楚的顯示在我的胰臟上有一個腫瘤。醫(yī)生們告訴我?guī)缀蹩梢钥隙ㄟ@類癌癥是無法治愈的。我的醫(yī)生建議我回家把后事準(zhǔn)備好，這也是醫(yī)生對準(zhǔn)備去死的說法。也就是說確保一切安頓停當(dāng)，讓你的家人盡可能的從容一些。我?guī)е@一診斷結(jié)果生活了一整天。他們把內(nèi)窺鏡插下我的喉嚨，穿過我的胃，進(jìn)入腸子，用一根針穿入我的胰臟從腫瘤上提取一些細(xì)胞。但是我的妻子在現(xiàn)場。因?yàn)檫@原來是一種極為罕見形式的胰腺癌，可以通過手術(shù)治愈。這是我面臨死亡最近的一次。經(jīng)歷過這一切，現(xiàn)在我可以更確信的對你說這一切，死亡不僅僅是一個有用但抽象的概念。即使是想進(jìn)入天堂的人們也不想通過死亡進(jìn)入那里。沒有人能逃脫。因?yàn)樗劳鲆苍S是生命中最好的發(fā)明。它清理老的，給新的讓出路。但是，不久，你們會慢慢變成老的，然后被清理掉。你的時間是有限的。不要被教條所禁錮，被動接受別人思想的結(jié)果。最重要的是，有勇氣去追隨你的內(nèi)心與直覺。其他的一切都不重要。一個叫Stewart Branch的人在離這不遠(yuǎn)的Menlo Park用他詩人般的靈感創(chuàng)造了這一刊物。所以，這本刊物全部是用打字機(jī)，剪刀和寶利來相機(jī)做出來的。Stewart和他的團(tuán)隊(duì)出版了幾期The Whole Earth Catalog。當(dāng)時我正處在你們的年紀(jì)。如果你樂于冒險搭便車旅行就會看到這一種景象。固執(zhí)愚見。保持渴望。我一直這樣勉勵我自己。保持渴望。多謝你們第二篇：喬布斯斯坦福演講稿喬布斯斯坦福演講稿You39。 Jobs says Jobs說，你必須要找到你所愛的東西。ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。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 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 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 since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal puter would have I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal puters might not have the wonderful typography that they course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years , you can39。you can only connect them looking you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your have to trust in somethingthe Macintoshthat 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 me – I still loved what I turn of events at Apple had not changed that one had been rejected, but I was still in so I decided to start didn39。s current Laurene and I have a wonderful family 39。t been fired from was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed life hits you in the head with a 39。m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I 39。t found it yet, keep 39。ll know when you find , like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll keep looking until you find 39。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 that I39。ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurewhich is living with the results of other people39。t let the noise of other39。s, before personal puters and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it