財富精英勵志演講 01:我生命中的三個故事(1)

[00:00.54] I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. 今天與你們一起參加世界上最好的大學之一的畢業(yè)典禮，我感到很榮幸。 [00:12.07] I never graduated from college. 我從來沒有從大學畢業(yè)。 [00:14.41] Truth be told, this is the closest I 've ever gotten to a college graduation. 說實話，這是我離大學畢業(yè)典禮最近的一次。 [00:19.10] Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. 今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個故事。 [00:25.05] That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. 就是這樣。不是什么大不了的事情，只是三個故事而已。 [00:29.43] The first story is about connecting the dots. 第一個故事是關(guān)于把點串連成線的故事 [00:34.45] 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. 我在里德學院只讀了六個月就退學了，但是我還經(jīng)常去學校旁聽，又過了大約18個月，我才真正離開校園 [00:43.11] So why did I drop out? 那么，我為什么要退學呢? [00:45.26] It started before I was born. 這要從我出生前講起。 [00:49.05] My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. 母親懷上我時，她還是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，于是她決定把我送給別人來收養(yǎng)。 [00:56.07] 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. 她非常強烈地希望我被上過大學的人收養(yǎng)，所以，我的一切都被安排好，等我一出生就由一名律師和他的妻子收養(yǎng)。 [01:05.36] Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. 哪知我剛一出世，這對夫婦突然改變了主意，他們真正想要的是一個女孩。 [01:11.40] 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?" 這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母——當時還列在登記的申請人名單中——突然在半夜接到了一個電話：“我們有一個不期而至的男嬰，你們想要他嗎?” [01:21.15]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. 他們回答道：“當然要?！钡俏疑负髞戆l(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母并沒有大學學歷，而我的養(yǎng)父甚至沒從中學畢業(yè)。 [01:32.53] She refused to sign the final adoption papers. 她拒絕在最終的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。 [01:37.09] She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. 但幾個月之后，我的父母承諾將來一定送我上大學，我的生母就松口了。

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