【原声视界】Day 25 乔布斯的励志演讲

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乔布斯的励志演讲

Steve Jobs Motivational Speech

【背景扩展】乔布斯在斯坦福大学的励志演讲片段。讲述了他的人生感悟。视频内容大概：从他刚开始创业到被苹果公司开除。期间他并没有放弃而是坚持做自己热爱的事，最后走向成功道路的故事。以此来激励我们，生活可能不会一帆风顺，但不要失去信心。

I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage (车库) when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started?

我很幸运, 在早年时就找到了自己喜欢做的事情。20岁时，我和Woz 在父母的车库里建立了苹果公司。我们很努力地工作，10年之内，苹果由最初车库中的两个人变成一家拥有4000多员工、价值20亿美元的公司。那时我们最棒的产品Macintosh 刚刚推出一年，而我刚刚30岁，之后我被解雇了。你怎么可能被你创立的公司解雇？

What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did.

一直以来都是我成年生活核心的东西，忽然不复存在了，那感觉相当可怕。有几个月的时间，我完全不知道该干什么。我感到自己辜负了前辈企业家的期望，就像接力棒交到我的手里，而我却把它丢掉了。我成了一名众所周知的失败者，我甚至想过离开硅谷。然而有一种东西慢慢地照亮了我。我依然爱着我所爱的东西。

We’re gonna make it or break it, based on whether we can provide products to higher education, and services and relationships to higher education, that no one else provides. And I think we got to spend a 100 percent of our time thinking about that. And if we can’t do that, then we ought to go broke.

我们要么成功，要么失败，取决于我们是否能够为高等教育提供别人无法提供的产品，服务和关系。而且我认为我们要花100％的时间来思考这个问题。如果我们不能这样做，那么我们就应该失败。

And so I decided to start over. I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life.

于是我决定重新开始。我当时没有意识到，但事后证明，被苹果解雇是我遇到过的最好的事情。事业成功伴随的沉重不见了，取而代之的是重回起跑线的那种轻盈，对于一切都不再确信无疑。我获得了解放，进而开始了我一生中最富有创造力的时期。

During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

在接下去的五年中，我建立了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司，另一家公司是Pixar，并与一位出色的女士堕入爱河，她后来成为了我的太太。我很确定，如果苹果没有开除我我，这一切都不会发生。我想，这就是良药苦口利于病吧。有时生活会给你当头一棒。不要失去信心。