福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿

1、福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿哈佛大学 (Harvard University)，简称哈佛，坐落于美国马萨诸塞州剑桥市，是一所享誉世界的私立研究型大学，是著名的常春藤盟校成员。下面分享了福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿，希望你喜欢。福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿英文版全文如下Youve got to find what you love, Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, xx.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement fromone of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.Truth be told, this is the closest Ive ever gotten t

2、o a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.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. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I shoul

3、d be adopted by college福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle ofthe night 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 that my father had never graduate

4、d 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 to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a collegethat was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldnt see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me

5、figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had savedtheir entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didnt interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasnt all romantic. I didnt have adorm room, so I slept on the福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿floor in friends room

6、s, I returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphyinstruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully

7、 hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didnt have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying theamount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science cant capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But te

8、n years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personalcomputer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have福布斯哈佛经典演讲稿never dropped in on this calligraphy

9、class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was luckyI found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and Istarted Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just t

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