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  • Thank you I am honored to be with you today at your

  • commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.

  • Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want

  • to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

  • The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first

  • 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really

  • quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological

  • mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for

  • adoption. She 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 girl. So my parents,

  • who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an

  • unexpected baby boy; 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 school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented

  • a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

  • And 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 working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college

  • tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted

  • to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here

  • I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided

  • to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but

  • looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could

  • stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the

  • ones that looked interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm

  • room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the

  • deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night

  • to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled

  • into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me

  • give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps

  • the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every

  • label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and

  • didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn

  • how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount

  • of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It

  • was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I

  • found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical

  • application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh

  • computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer

  • with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,

  • the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since

  • Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I

  • had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and

  • personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was

  • impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very

  • clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking

  • forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots

  • will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in somethingyour gut, destiny,

  • life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference

  • in my life. My second story is about love and loss.

  • I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in

  • my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from

  • just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just

  • released our finest creationthe Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned

  • 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as

  • Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with

  • me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began

  • to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided

  • with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. 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 - that I

  • had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce

  • and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. 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. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had

  • been rejected, but I was still in love. 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 of my life. 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. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film,

  • Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable

  • turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed

  • at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful

  • family together. 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 hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced

  • that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find

  • what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. 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 do.

  • If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart,

  • you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and

  • better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

  • My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something

  • like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'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 something.

  • Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered

  • to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everythingall external expectations,

  • all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face

  • of death, 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. You are already

  • naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  • About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it

  • clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The 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 months. My doctor advised me to go home and

  • get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to

  • tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just

  • a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy

  • as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

  • I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck

  • an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into

  • my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. 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. I had

  • the surgery and I'm fine now. This was the closest I've been to facing death,

  • and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. 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: No one wants to die. Even people who want

  • to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share.

  • No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely

  • the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make

  • way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will

  • gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma

  • which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of

  • others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage

  • to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

  • Everything else is secondary. When I was young, there was an amazing publication

  • called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was

  • created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought

  • it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers

  • and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.

  • 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.

  • Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when

  • it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your

  • age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country

  • road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it

  • were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed

  • off. 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.

  • Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much.

Thank you I am honored to be with you today at your

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