【正文】 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 do. 你的工作將會(huì)占據(jù)生活中很大的一部分。If you haven39。t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you39。And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don39。所以繼續(xù)找，直到你找到它，不要停下來(lái)！ My third story is about death. 我的第三個(gè)故事是關(guān)于死亡的。ll most certainly be right. 當(dāng)我十七歲的時(shí)候, 我讀到了一句話:“如果你把每一天都當(dāng)作生命中最后一天去生活的話,那么有一天你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你是正確的。從那時(shí)開(kāi)始,過(guò)了33 年,我在每天早晨都會(huì)對(duì)著鏡子問(wèn)自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你會(huì)不會(huì)完成你今天想做的事情呢？” And whenever the answer has been No for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. 當(dāng)答案連續(xù)很多次被給予“不是”的時(shí)候, 我知道自己需要改變某些事情了。ll be dead soon is the most important tool I39。它幫我指明了生命中重要的選擇。leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. 我看到的是留下的真正重要的東西。You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.你已經(jīng)赤身裸體了, 你沒(méi)有理由不去跟隨自己的心一起跳動(dòng)。我在早晨七點(diǎn)半做了一個(gè)檢查, 檢查清楚的顯示在我的胰腺有一個(gè)腫瘤。t even know what a pancreas 。 My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor39。d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. 我的醫(yī)生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是醫(yī)生準(zhǔn)備死亡的程序。 I lived with that diagnosis all day. 我整天和那個(gè)診斷書(shū)一起生活。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. 我當(dāng)時(shí)很鎮(zhèn)靜,因?yàn)槲冶蛔⑸淞随?zhèn)定劑。I had the surgery and I39。 This was the closest I39。 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: 從死亡線上又活了過(guò)來(lái), 死亡對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，只是一個(gè)有用但是純粹是知識(shí)上的概念的時(shí)候，我可以更肯定一點(diǎn)地對(duì)你們說(shuō)： No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don39。And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. 但是死亡是我們每個(gè)人共同的終點(diǎn)。And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life39。因?yàn)樗劳鼍褪巧凶詈玫囊粋€(gè)發(fā)明。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. 你們現(xiàn)在是新的, 但是從現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始不久以后, 你們將會(huì)逐漸的變成舊的然后被清除。 Your time is limited, so don39。s life. 你們的時(shí)間很有限, 所以不要將他們浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)其他人的生活上。t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people39。Don39。s opinions drown out your own inner voice. 不要被其他人喧囂的觀點(diǎn)掩蓋你真正的內(nèi)心的聲音。 When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my , 有一本叫做“整個(gè)地球的目錄”振聾發(fā)聵的雜志，它是我們那一代人的圣經(jīng)之一。This was in the late 196039。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. 有點(diǎn)像用軟皮包裝的google, 在google出現(xiàn)三十五年之前：這是理想主義的，其中有許多靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。 It was the mid1970s, and I was your age. 那是在七十年代的中期, 你們的時(shí)代。 Beneath it were the words: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. 在照片之下有這樣一段話：“保持饑餓,保持愚蠢。 Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. “保持饑餓,保持愚蠢。 Thank you all very much. 非常感謝