关键词：英文原版视频学习方法论
针对类似的文章一直是我想写的，网上也有类似演讲稿（如果你看过会发现，其实并不准确，有些缺句子，有些缺单词，很多都是互相COPY），只要不是官方的演讲稿我觉得都仅仅是参考。所以考虑了下，我想还是自己边听边打吧，这样对自己的提升也更大一些，所以就花了2个小时的笨功夫听打了一遍（至于为何这么折磨自己，也许只有亲身经历的人才能体会的到），之后基本可以做到脱稿听懂原文了，然后重点记忆下里面的疑难单词和常用表达以便学以致用。
针对类似原版英文视频我总结了经过践行后的学习方法论，如下；
1.不看文稿直接看视频，看能理解多少；
2.不看视频看文稿，吃透文稿（如果有文稿）-限定时间完成，最好是15分钟左右的视频文稿；
3.脱稿再看几遍视频看能理解多少；
4.对照文稿再看几遍视频；
5.脱稿再重新看视频。
经过上面几轮下来我基本可以做到不看文稿直接看视频理解98%内容以上了。之后也要经常看这些你曾经吃透的视频，争取做到可以输出以及可以背诵里面普世的经典段落，并践行其中你认可的观点。
希望以上的学习方法论对你能有帮助，其中的关键是要践行和持续的迭代。
以下是Steve Jobs 2005年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲原文，这几天已经听了几十遍了，和官方稿子对照过。正确率应该在99%左右，如果哪里有错误也请朋友们不吝赐教。
虽然是10多年前乔爷的演讲，仍旧百听不厌...是提高英语演讲能力难得的好材料。
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish-Steve Jobs
I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told I never graduated from college and 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 also 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 that they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents who were on the waiting list got a call in the middle of the night, asking: we got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him, they said of course. My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college. And 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 go to college. This was the start in my life.
And17 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 my 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 the required classes that didn’t interest meand begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting. It wasn’t all romantic I didn’t have a dorm room, so l slept on the floor in friends’rooms.I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent 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. Historicalartistically 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 backward ten years later. Again you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backward. 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. believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give your confidence to follow your heart. Even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference.
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 just released our finest creation, the Macintosh a year earlier and I had just turned 30. And 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 andBob 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 world's first computer-animated feature film “Toy Story” and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In the remarkable turn of eventsApple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple. And the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurence and I have a wonderful family together. I’m pretty sure none of this would happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine. But I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life gonna hit 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 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 and 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 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 was 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 everything, all 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 7:30in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas, I didn’t 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 thankfully I am fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its 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 own 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 “TheWhole 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 was 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 a new, I wish that for you Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.