向经典致敬，永远的传奇！
父亲没有高中毕业，母亲没有大学毕业，大学学费可以耗费他父母毕生积蓄的乔布斯，有勇气遵从自己的内心，辍学后选择自己喜欢的书法课，这让个人电脑拥有了漂亮的字体排版。
他三十岁走上巅峰又马上被驱逐出苹果摔入谷底，这成为他人生中经历的最好的事情，因为他虽然被苹果拒绝，但仍然热爱自己的事业，轻装上阵，重新开始，建立了两家公司，一家NEXT被苹果收购，他也重回到苹果，一家Pixer，被迪士尼收购，做出了第一部由计算机制作的动画片-玩具总动员，他也进入他人生最具创造力的十年，并找到毕生的爱人。（顺便提一下：乔布斯的妻子劳伦娜·鲍威尔·乔布斯裸捐250亿美元，称个人累积太多财富是不对的！）
他每一天都像最后一天那样，做真正重要的事情，而不是害怕尴尬，失败。
最讨厌的一句话-寒门再难出贵子
你的目标不是成为贵子，这也不是你能够决定的。
你只是要每天做更好的自己。
这世上，肉眼可见的，甚至就在我身边，这样励志的故事太多太多，不要给自己不努力的理由！
This is a 7'30" mock speech from Steve Jobs’ Commencement address on June 12, 2005.
https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲（中英字幕）_哔哩哔哩_bilibili
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.
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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 far more interesting.
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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 sans 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 10 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. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 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. Because believing the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it lead you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
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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 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the 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 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 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 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 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. and Don’t settle.
My third story is about death.
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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.
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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.
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I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one ofthe finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated fromcollege. 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 thenstayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. Sowhy 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. Shefelt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everythingwas all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except thatwhen I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted agirl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle ofthe 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 nevergraduated 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 monthslater when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was a start inmy life.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose acollege that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-classparents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, Icouldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my lifeand no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I wasspending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decidedto drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at thetime, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minuteI 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 onthe floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buyfood with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to getone good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what Istumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to bepriceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphyinstruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label onevery drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out anddidn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy classto learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, aboutvarying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about whatmakes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtlein a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in mylife. But 10 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 firstcomputer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that singlecourse in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces orproportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likelythat no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I wouldhave never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers mightnot have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible toconnect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, veryclear looking backward 10 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. Because believing the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it lead 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 Istarted Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billioncompany with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation —the 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 hiredsomeone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for thefirst year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began todiverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board ofDirectors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What hadbeen 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 hadlet the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped thebaton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce andtried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and Ieven thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began todawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had notchanged that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so Idecided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired fromApple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness ofbeing successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, lesssure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods ofmy life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, anothercompany named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become mywife. 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 aremarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and thetechnology 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 beenfired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient neededit. Sometimes life’s gona 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 Idid. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as itis for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, andthe only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. Andthe only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found ityet, keep looking. And Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’llknow when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets betterand 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 youlive 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 havelooked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the lastday of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And wheneverthe answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to changesomething.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’veever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almosteverything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment orfailure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only whatis truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way Iknow to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are alreadynaked. 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 evenknow what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a typeof cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer thanthree to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs inorder, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try and tell yourkids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just afew months. It means everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy aspossible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had abiopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach andinto my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from thetumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewedthe cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned outto be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I hadthe surgery and thankfully I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s theclosest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now saythis to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purelyintellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t wantto die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one hasever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely thesingle best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the oldto make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too longfrom now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be sodramatic, 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’sthinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own innervoice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else issecondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The WholeEarth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created bya fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought itto life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personalcomputers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissorsand Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years beforeGoogle came along: It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and greatnotions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole EarthCatalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. Itwas the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issuewas a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might findyourself 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.