名校勵志英語演講 第43期:我人生中的三個故事

[00:00.00]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. 雖然當(dāng)時我并沒有意識到，但事實證明，被蘋果公司炒魷魚是我一生中碰到是最好的事情。 [00:06.24]The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. 盡管前景未卜，但從頭開始的輕松感取代了成功的沉重感。 [00:13.00]It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. 這使我輕松踏入了一生中最富有創(chuàng)造力的時期之一。 [00:16.73]During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, 在此后的五年里，我開了一家名叫NeXT的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司， [00:21.49]and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. 我還愛上了一位了不起的女人，后來娶了她。 [00:24.34]Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, 皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部電腦制作的動畫片《玩具總動員》， [00:29.01]and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. 它現(xiàn)在是全球最成功的動畫制作室。 [00:33.08]In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I retuned to Apple, 世道輪回，蘋果公司買下NeXT后，我又回到了蘋果公司， [00:40.14]and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. 我們在NeXT公司開發(fā)的技術(shù)成了蘋果公司這次重新崛起的核心。 [00:44.46]And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. 我和勞倫娜也建立了美滿的家庭。 [00:48.63]I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. 我確信，如果不是被蘋果公司解雇，這一切絕不可能發(fā)生。 [00:52.93]It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometime life. 這是一劑苦藥，可我認為良藥苦口利于病。 [00:58.29]Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. 有時生活會給你當(dāng)頭一棒，但不要灰心。 [01:02.62]I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. 我堅信讓我不斷前行的唯一力量就是我熱愛我所做的一切。 [01:06.99]You've got to find what you love. 所以，我們一定得知道自己喜歡什么， [01:09.39]And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. 選擇愛人時如此，選擇工作時也如此。 [01:12.51]Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, 工作將是生活中的一大部分， [01:15.50]and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. 讓自己真正滿意的唯一辦法，是做自己認為有意義的工作。 [01:19.75]And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 做有意義的工作的唯一辦法，是熱愛自己的工作。 [01:23.52]If you haven't found it yet, keep looking—and don't settle. 如果你們還沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡什么，那就不斷地去尋找，不要急于做出決定。 [01:28.06]As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. 就像一切要憑感覺去做事情一樣，一旦找到了自己喜歡的事，感覺就會告訴你。 [01:31.77]And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. 就像任何一種美妙的東西，歷久彌新。 [01:36.91]So keep looking, don't settle. 所以說，要不斷尋找，直到找到自己喜歡的東西。不要半途而廢。

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