视频地址: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av7300325?from=search&seid=9973964268915197677
原文: https://www.jianshu.com/p/bb3ca7059747
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be told,I never graduated from college,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.
今天,我很荣幸能参加你们的毕业典礼,斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学毕业。说真的,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
第一个故事是生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
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?
我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正地作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。那么,我为什么要退学呢?
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.
故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的生母当时是一个年轻的,尚未结婚的研究生,她决定让别人收养我。她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候,她已经做好了一切的准备工作,我将被一位律师和他的妻子收养。但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要的是一个女孩。
So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boydo 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.
所以我的养父母(他们在候选名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个亲生父母无法抚养的男婴,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道:“当然!”但是我亲生母亲随后发现,我的养母大学没毕业,我的父亲甚至高中没毕业。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才同意。
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.
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 而我父母只是蓝领阶层,我的学费几乎要花光了他们所有积蓄。而六个月后, 我却看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大学能怎么样帮助我找到答案。
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.
但是在这里,我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学,并且相信一切会有办法的。我当时确实非常的害怕, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中曾经做过的最棒的一个决定。在我退学的那一刻, 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了,然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。
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 5¢ 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:
但是事实并不是那么浪漫。我没有了宿舍住,所以我只能睡在朋友房间的地板上,我去捡可乐瓶子,以五分一个的价格卖掉,这样我就可以有点钱买吃的, 在每个星期天的晚上,我会走七英里的路程,到城市另一端的Hare Krishna寺庙(注:位于纽约Brooklyn下城),可以吃上每星期唯一一顿饱饭。我爱圣餐。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走, 遇到了很多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。我来举个例子吧:
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.
在那时,Reed大学提供全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里,每张海报, 每个抽屉的每个标签,全都是漂亮的手写美术字。因为我退学了, 不用去上那些常规的课程, 所以我决定去参加这个课程,去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。
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.
我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、历史性的艺术精妙, 我发现那实在是太美妙了。
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.
当时这些东西好像都没有什么会在我生命中实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候,它就回归到我身边。我把当时我学的那些家伙全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我在大学里从没有学那门课,麦金塔电脑就不会有多种字体或者适当分隔的字体。
And since Windows just copied the Mac, its 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.
因为微软都是抄Mac电脑的,很可能在个人电脑上都不会有这些了。如果我没有退学,那我就不会旁听这门书法课,然后个人电脑就不会像现在这样有神奇的排印术了。当然在大学的时候,我还不可能把未来的点点滴滴串连起来,但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forwardyou 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 something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.(此处有缺失待补充)
再次说明下,你不可能将未来的片断串连起来你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会以某种方式在未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西:你的勇气、命运、生命、因缘,随便是什么。这种方法从来没有令我失望(let me down),只是让我的生命更加地与众不同。
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烦恼总是走了又来
我们大家可能都有过这样的体会,当你烦恼的时候,你可能会很慌乱,可能会情绪低落,可能会沉浸在这种不良情绪中,久久不能自拔,仿佛烦恼会被无限放大,而自己也不知道什么时候才能走出困境,除了被动地等待光明的来临之外,自己好像什么都做不了,这种感觉真是让人很无助。
其实烦恼每个人都有过,而且还经常有,旧的烦恼走了,新的烦恼又来了,无穷无尽。要是每次我们遇到烦恼时都沉浸在那种状态当中,被动地等待救赎的话,不仅时间浪费了,而且还影响心情,消磨意志。
难道真的没有办法吗?
俗话说,只要思想不滑坡,方法总比困难多。人类文明发展经过这么长的时间,很多问题早已有答案。而解决以上问题的方法也是有的。
上学的时候,在数学课上,老师出一道题,出了之后会让大家说怎么个解法,大家回答之后,老师又会问大家有没有其他的解法,最后你自己可以根据自己的情况,在实际考试的时候选择一种自己比较擅长的解法来做。
其实解决生活中的问题也是一样,不止一种解法,有时这种解法你解不出来的时候,你可以换另一种解法。
那我们再回到最开始的问题上,当你产生烦恼时你该怎么办?如果你解决不了这个烦恼,但你还要一根筋的停留在这个烦恼上的话,那只会越来越糟,相反,如果你在这个时候换个思路, 既然现在解决不了这个烦恼,那你就先做点别的,转移下注意力,说不定还能在做其他事情的时候找到一些灵感,获得一些意外收获呢。
不要觉得这个方法不靠谱,其实它是有科学依据的。人的大脑不可能同时想两件事情,如果你悲伤的时候做一点快乐的事,那大脑不可能既快乐又悲伤。所以,我们在烦恼的时候如果去做不烦恼的事情,那就不会深陷于烦恼之中。
还有,其实有些时候做些看似无关的事情,可能会给你带来一些意外惊喜。
你可能在看一些人物传记的时候会发现,一些杰出的人往往除了自己专业的领域之外,还有一些擅长的业余爱好,比如爱因斯坦他除了是位伟大的科学家之外,他还会拉小提琴。可能一般人会觉得这个爱好跟做科学完全不相干,可就是这么感觉完全不相关的事情,有时却会给人带来一些意想不到的收获。爱因斯坦常常会在思考一些问题找不到思路的时候先搁置一下,偶尔去拉下小提琴,而有的难题就在他拉小提琴的过程中出现了灵感,想到了一点点解决的思路。你说这神不神奇?
再举一个例子,乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼[1]上曾说过他的一段经历。他在大一的时候辍学,但是他没有马上离开学校,而是留在学校去旁听了很多他感兴趣的课程,其中有一门是美术字课程。当时他也不知道去听这个课有什么用,但是他还是去听了。很多年后,当他做了苹果电脑,再回忆起那段旁听美术字课程的经历时,他说,要是没有去听那个课的话,他也不会在苹果里创造出那么丰富那么漂亮的印刷字体。所以,很多我们有些时候觉得看似无关的事情,可能会给你带来一些意外惊喜。
因此,下次如果你再遇到烦恼,感觉痛苦不堪,不知如何走出困境时,你可以先去做点其他的事情,换一下思路,情绪调整了,感觉变好了,可能在某个瞬间你以前的烦恼也有解决方法了。
参考资料:
[1] 乔布斯演讲视频 http://open.163.com/movie/2006/8/3/8/M7BC8JMHJ_M7BC8PA38.html
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