財富精英勵志演講 03:我生命中的三個故事(3)

[00:01.93]My second story is about love and loss. 我的第二個故事是關(guān)于熱愛和得失 [00:07.39]I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. 我很幸運，因為我早早便發(fā)現(xiàn)了自己喜歡做什么。 [00:12.17]Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. 我在20歲的時候和沃茲(Steve Wozniak)一起在我父母的車庫里開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。 [00:15.73]We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollars company with over 4000 employees. 我們工作十分努力，十年里后，蘋果從車庫里只有我們兩人發(fā)展成為一家擁有4,000多名員工、市值20億的公司。 [00:23.40]We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. 在第九年的時候，我們剛剛發(fā)布了我們最棒的產(chǎn)品——麥金托什電腦，而我剛到30歲。然后我被炒了魷魚。 [00:32.31]How can you get fired from a company you started? 你怎么能被自己創(chuàng)辦的公司炒魷魚呢? [00:35.69]Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, 是這樣的，隨著蘋果的發(fā)展，我們聘用了一個我認為頗有才能的人來和我一起運營公司， [00:42.22]and for the first year or so things went well. 最初的一年里，一切進展順利。 [00:44.42]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. 但之后我們對未來的看法開始出現(xiàn)了分歧，最終我們吵翻了，這時，我們的董事會站在了他那邊。 [00:52.27]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. 于是，我在30歲的時候離開了，而且弄得人人皆知。我成年后全部生活的重心不復(fù)存在，這對我是一個毀滅性的打擊。 [01:01.74]I really didn't know what to do for a few months. 有幾個月我都真的不知道該做些什么。 [01:04.36]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. 我覺得，我讓創(chuàng)業(yè)先輩們失望了——我丟掉了傳到我手上的接力棒。 [01:11.29]I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. 我去見了戴維·帕卡德(David Packard)和鮑勃·諾伊斯(Bob Noyce)，試圖為我把事情搞砸而道個歉。 [01:17.67]I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. 這個失敗弄得滿城皆知，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。 [01:21.78]But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. 但我漸漸地開始有了明確的想法——我仍然熱愛我做過的一切。 [01:27.34]The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. 蘋果公司發(fā)生的變故并沒有絲毫改變這一點。 [01:31.60]I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. 我被驅(qū)逐了，但我仍然熱愛我的事業(yè)。所以我決定重新開始。 [01:38.07]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. 那時候我還沒有意識到，但后來事實卻證明，被蘋果炒魷魚是發(fā)生在我身上的最好的事情。 [01:44.23]The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. 我放下了已有成就的重擔(dān)，取而代之的是重新創(chuàng)業(yè)、探索未來的輕松。 [01:51.36]It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. 這使我輕裝上陣，進入了我一生中最富創(chuàng)造力的時期之一。 [01:54.69]During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, 在接下來的五年之中，我創(chuàng)辦了NeXT公司，還有皮克斯(Pixar)公司， [01:59.52]and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. 我愛上了一位了不起的女人，她后來成為我的妻子。 [02:03.04]Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, 皮克斯公司制作了世界第一部用電腦制作的動畫片《玩具總動員》， [02:07.64]and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. 它現(xiàn)在是世界上最成功的動畫工作室。 [02:13.14]In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, 接下來峰回路轉(zhuǎn)，蘋果在一個特殊的機遇下收購了NeXT，我又回到了蘋果公司， [02:18.45]and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. 我們在NeXT開發(fā)的技術(shù)是讓蘋果現(xiàn)在起死回生的核心技術(shù)。 [02:22.97]And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. 并且，勞倫(Laurence)和我共同擁有一個幸福的家庭。 [02:27.21]I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. 我十分確定，如果我沒有被蘋果解雇，這一切都不會發(fā)生。 [02:31.45]It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. 這是一劑苦藥，但是我認為對病人有好處。 [02:35.52]Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. 有時候，生活會給你當(dāng)頭一棒，但是不要失去信心。 [02:41.43]I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. 我相信促使我一往無前的唯一動力就是我熱愛我所做的一切。 [02:45.51]You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. 你們一定要找到你們的所愛。對愛人是如此，對工作亦如此。 [02:51.40]Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, 你的工作將占據(jù)你的大部分生活， [02:53.85]and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. 真正令人滿意的唯一辦法就是做你認為偉大的工作。 [02:58.18]And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. 而做偉大的工作的唯一途徑就是熱愛你的工作。如果你還沒有找到你喜歡做的事情，請繼續(xù)尋找。 [03:05.30]Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, 不要停頓。用你全部身心去尋找，當(dāng)你找到的時候你會有所感知。而且，正如任何美好的事物一樣， [03:12.20]it just gets better and better as the years roll on. 日久彌新。 [03:15.57]So keep looking. Don't settle. 因此要不斷地尋找，不要放棄。不要半途而廢。

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