財(cái)富精英勵(lì)志演講第16期:亞馬遜國王杰夫·貝索斯母校演講(2)

[00:00.47]I have a vivid memory of what happened, and it was not what I expected. 我清晰地記得接下來發(fā)生了什么，而那是我意料之外的。 [00:09.11]I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. 我本期待著小聰明和算術(shù)技巧能贏得掌聲。 [00:17.40]"Jeff, you're so smart.You had to have made some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division." “杰夫，你很聰明，你做了些復(fù)雜的估算，計(jì)算出一年中有多少分鐘，還做了些除法?！? [00:31.08]That's not what happened. 但那并沒有發(fā)生。 [00:33.54]Instead, my grandmother burst into tears. 相反，我的祖母哭泣起來。 [00:42.47]I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. 我坐在后座不知道該怎么辦。 [00:46.26]While my grandmother sat crying, my grandfather, who had been driving in silence, pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. 我的祖母坐在那里一直哭，而我的祖父之前在一直在默默開車，這時(shí)他把車停在了高速路邊， [00:55.30]He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. 走下車來，打開了我的車門，等著我跟他下車。 [01:01.42]Was I in trouble? 我惹麻煩了嗎? [01:03.48]My grandfather was a highly intelligent, quiet man. 我的祖父是一個(gè)智慧而安靜的人。 [01:08.08]He had never said a harsh word to me, and maybe this was to be the first time? 他從來沒有對我說過嚴(yán)厲的話，難道這會(huì)是第一次? [01:12.40]Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car and apologize to my grandmother. 還是他會(huì)讓我回到車上跟祖母道歉? [01:19.13]I had no experience in this realm with my grandparents and no way to gauge what the consequences might be. 我以前從未遇到過這種狀況，因而也無從知曉會(huì)有什么后果發(fā)生。 [01:28.22]We stopped beside the trailer. 我們在房車旁停下來。 [01:31.21]My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, 祖父注視著我，沉默片刻， [01:36.55]he gently and calmly said, "Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever." 然后輕輕地、平靜地說：“杰夫，有一天你會(huì)明白，善良比聰明更難?！? [01:54.38]What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. 今天我想對你們說的是，天賦和選擇不同。 [02:01.48]Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. 聰明是一種天賦，而善良是一種選擇。 [02:06.56]Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. 天賦得來很容易——畢竟它們與生俱來。 [02:11.00]Choices can be hard. 而選擇則頗為不易。 [02:13.18]You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, 如果一不小心，你可能被天賦所誘惑， [02:17.10]and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices. 這可能會(huì)損害到你做出的選擇。 [02:22.38]This is a group with many gifts. 在座各位都擁有許多天賦。 [02:25.15]I'm sure one of your gifts is the gift of a smart and capable brain. 我確信你們的天賦之一就是擁有精明能干的頭腦。 [02:30.27]I'm confident that's the case because admission is competitive 之所以如此確信，是因?yàn)槿雽W(xué)競爭十分激烈， [02:34.46]and if there weren't some signs that you're clever, the dean of admission wouldn't have let you in. 如果你們不能表現(xiàn)出聰明智慧，便沒有資格進(jìn)入這所學(xué)校。 [02:42.49]Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. 你們的聰明才智必定會(huì)派上用場，因?yàn)槟銈儗⒃谝黄錆M奇跡的土地上行進(jìn)。 [02:48.27]We humans, plodding as we are,will astonish ourselves. 我們?nèi)祟?，盡管跬步前行，卻終將令自己大吃一驚。 [02:53.46]We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. 我們能夠想方設(shè)法制造清潔能源， [02:58.17]Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. 也能夠一個(gè)原子一個(gè)原子地組裝微型機(jī)械，使之穿過細(xì)胞壁，然后修復(fù)細(xì)胞。 [03:05.09]This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. 這個(gè)月，有一個(gè)異常而不可避免的事情發(fā)生了——人類終于合成了生命。 [03:11.42]In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications. 在未來幾年，我們不僅會(huì)合成生命，還會(huì)按說明書驅(qū)動(dòng)它們。 [03:18.14]I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. 我相信你們甚至?xí)吹轿覀兝斫馊祟惖拇竽X， [03:22.16]Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. 儒勒·凡爾納，馬克·吐溫，伽利略，牛頓——所有那些充滿好奇之心的人都希望能夠活到現(xiàn)在。 [03:35.12]As a civilization,we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me. 作為文明人，我們會(huì)擁有如此之多的天賦，就像是坐在我面前的你們，每一個(gè)生命個(gè)體都擁有許多獨(dú)特的天賦。

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