財(cái)富精英勵(lì)志演講 01:我生命中的三個(gè)故事(1)
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universitiesin the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gottento a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No bigdeal. Just three stories.
今天與你們一起參加世界上最好的大學(xué)之一的畢業(yè)典禮，我感到很榮幸。我從來沒有從大學(xué)畢業(yè)。說實(shí)話，這是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮最近的一次。今天我想向你們講述我生活中的三個(gè)故事。就是這樣。不是什么大不了的事情，只是三個(gè)故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
第一個(gè)故事是關(guān)于把點(diǎn)串連成線的故事
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in foranother 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
我在里德學(xué)院(Reed College)只讀了六個(gè)月就退學(xué)了，但是我還經(jīng)常去學(xué)校旁聽，又過了大約18個(gè)月，我才真正離開校園。那么，我為什么要退學(xué)呢?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduatestudent, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should beadopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by alawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that theyreally wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of thenight 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 thatmy 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 tocollege.
這要從我出生前講起。母親懷上我時(shí)，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)。她非常強(qiáng)烈地希望我被上過大學(xué)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)。哪知我剛一出世，這對(duì)夫婦突然改變了主意，他們真正想要的是一個(gè)女孩。這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母——當(dāng)時(shí)還列在登記的申請(qǐng)人名單中——突然在半夜接到了一個(gè)電話：“我們有一個(gè)不期而至的男嬰，你們想要他嗎?”他們回答道：“當(dāng)然要。”但是我生母后來發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的養(yǎng)母并沒有大學(xué)學(xué)歷，而我的養(yǎng)父甚至沒從中學(xué)畢業(yè)。她拒絕在最終的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。但幾個(gè)月之后，我的父母承諾將來一定送我上大學(xué)，我的生母就松口了。
背景資料：
畢業(yè)典禮上的演講大多輕松愉快，但是容易被遺忘。然而喬布斯2005年6月在斯坦福大學(xué)的演講至今依然為人們所津津樂道。這位蘋果公司的創(chuàng)始人在演講中談到了他人生中的三個(gè)故事，這三個(gè)故事引起了巨大的反響。
