乔布斯励志演讲稿
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乔布斯励志演讲稿 篇1
My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion pany with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned 30, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a pany you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the pany with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. 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, and 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. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. 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. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. 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. The heaviness of being suessful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a pany named NeXT, another pany named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would bee my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first puter-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most suessful animation studio in the world.
In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was
awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.
My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the
乔布斯励志演讲稿 篇2
我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼,斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事。
而已第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢?故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的,没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我,她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候,她已经做好了一切的准备工作,能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。所以我的生养父母,他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上,突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道:“当然!”
但是我亲生母亲随后发现,我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才同意。在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校,我父母还处于蓝领阶层,他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后,我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。但是在这里,我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。不能否认,我当时确实非常的害怕,但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。自我退学开始,我就可以不再去上那些无趣的必修课,而去旁听那些更有意思的课程了。当然也不是真那么浪漫,当时我连宿舍都没有所以只能在朋友寝室打地铺。我*收集可乐瓶子,每个五分来养活自己。每周日晚上,我都步行七里地,到神庙去蹭一顿像样的饭菜,我乐此不疲。我那些听从自己的直觉和好奇心,而遇到的事后来都令我收获颇丰。举个例子说,那时候里德学院开设了,或许是全美最好的书法课,大学里每张海报上,每个抽屉的标签上,全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了不必去上正规的课程,所以我决定去练练书法。我学到了有衬线体和无衬线体,懂得了如何把握词间距,以及如何做出漂亮的版式。优雅、沧桑和科学无法描述的那种艺术气息。真是妙不可言。
这些东西无论怎么看,都算不上对未来有实际用处。但是十年之后,当我们设计第一台苹果电脑的时候,却全都用上了。全都融入了苹果电脑的设计当中。那是第一台使用艺术字的电脑。如果我当时在大学没有学习这门课程,苹果电脑就不会有这么丰富的字体和比例匀称的字体。因为微软只知道山寨苹果那很可能世上所有电脑都不会有那些漂亮字体了。要是我没有退学,我就不会选修书法,那么,各种个人电脑就不会有如今的精美字体了。当然,我当时不可能预知这一件事之间的“因”和“果”,只有回过头来看,才一目了然。再次强调,没人可以未卜先知。事事间的`“因”“果”往往只在回首时显现。你得相信,“因”和“果”会在未来生活中联系起来。人总要有些信仰才行,直觉也好,命运也罢,因果轮回,不管什么,去相信“因”与“果”的联系。会给你信心去跟从自己的意愿,哪怕离经叛道也绝不止步。只有这样,才能有所成。
我的第二个故事关于兴趣与得失。我很幸运,能在年轻时就找到兴趣所在,二十岁的时候,就在父母的车库里开创了苹果公司。我们非常努力,苹果用了10年,从两个穷小子和一个破车库发展成了拥有四千多名雇员,市值过二十亿的大公司。一年前,我们刚刚发布了我们史上最棒的产品苹果电脑。我也刚满三十,然而之后我却被公司炒鱿鱼了。怎么会有人被自己创立的公司炒了呢?在苹果的发展期,我们雇了一个我当时很看重的人物和我一起来管理公司。在最初一年中一切都很顺利,但是后来我们对公司的未来发展产生了分歧,最终闹翻了。而此时,董事会站在了他的一边,我就在而立之年被当众扫地出门。突然我人生的重心不见了,这对我是非常沉重的打击。最初的几个月里,我不知所措,觉得自己无颜面对上一辈的企业家们。我没有接好他们交给我的接力棒,我拜访了DavidPackard和BobNoyce。去向他们道歉自己搞砸了。
我的惨败闹得满城风雨,我甚至都想干脆离开硅谷一走了之,但我又渐渐意识到我对事业的热爱没有变,我的意外出局,并没有动摇我的热爱。虽然被拒绝,但是我心依旧,所以我决定从头再来。我当时没有感觉,但是回头看被苹果炒掉其实是我一生中最有意义的事情。成功的巨大压力变成了新人接受挑战的轻盈,不再受固有思维羁绊,我轻盈地进入了我人生中最具创造力的时期。在接下来的五年里,我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司和一个叫皮克斯的公司。还与一位杰出的女性相知相爱。她后来成为我的妻子。皮克斯后来制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——玩具总动员。现在已经是世界上最成功的动画工作室。
峰回路转,苹果收购了NeXT,我也回归了苹果。而且正是我们在NeXT研发的技术带来了苹果的复兴。我还和我的太太组建了美满的家庭。我很肯定,这一切反而都要归功于当年我被苹果开除的经历。所以说良药苦口利于病。有些时候,生活会给你迎头一击,不要灰心丧气,我坚信,唯一可以让我坚持下去的就是我对自己事业的热爱。你必须去寻找自己所爱,无论是工作还是爱情都是如此。工作是生活中很主要的部分。要真正获得满足感就必须做你相信是有价值的工作。要做有价值的事业,你就必须热爱你做的事业,如果你还没找到,千万不好放弃,要继续寻找。只要倾听你的心声。当你真的发现时,你就会感到就像任何伟大的感情关系一样,岁月的更迭只会让这份感情愈发深刻。所以千万不要放弃,要继续寻找。第三个故事是关于死亡的。十七岁时,我读到过一句话,假如你把每一天都当做最后一天来过,那么总有一天你是对的。我将这句话铭记心中,之后的33年中,每天早晨我都会对着镜子问自己,假如今天就是我生命中的最后一天,我会做些什么,还会这么过吗?如果连续几天我的回答都是“不”,我就知道,我需要改变了。提醒自己。人的生命有限,令我一生都受益匪浅,令我能明智地在人生重大问题上作出抉择。因为一切的一切,一切追求,一切荣耀,一切惶恐,一切挫折,在死亡面前,都会显得微不足道。剩下的才是最重要的事情。记住自己总会死去,是避免自己被种种担心所羁绊的最好方法。既然将一无所有,还有什么理由违背自己的意愿。
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乔布斯励志演讲稿 篇3
大家好!
我在reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢?
故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的,没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我, 她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候,她已经做好了一切的准备工作,能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到,当我出生之后, 律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。所以我的生养父母(他们在待选名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道: “当然!”但是我亲生母亲随后发现,我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父 甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才勉强同意。
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层,他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我真正想要做什么,我也不知道大学能怎样帮助我找到答案。但是在这里,我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的 全部积蓄。所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。不能否认,我当时确实非常的害怕, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻, 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我可以开始去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。
但是这并不是那么浪漫。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房间的`地板上面睡觉,我去捡可以换5美分的可乐罐,仅仅为了填饱肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程,穿过这个城市到hare krishna神庙,只是为了能吃上好饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭,我喜欢那里的饭菜。
我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走, 遇到的很多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧:
reed大学在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了, 不必去上正规的课程, 所以我决定去参加这个课程,去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空白间距, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那种美好、历史感和艺术精妙,是科学永远不能捕捉到的, 我发现那实在是太迷人了。
当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中,好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台macintosh电脑的时候,就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些 东西全都设计进了mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学, 就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程, mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体,以及赏心悦目的字体间距。因为windows只是照抄了mac,所以现在个人电脑才能有现在这么美妙的字型。
当然我在大学的时候,还不可能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来,但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。
再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来;你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西:你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘……这个过程从来没有令我失望,只是让我的生命更加地与众不同。
乔布斯励志演讲稿 篇4
Thank you.
I'm honored to be with you today for your mencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today, I want to
tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first six 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 graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college 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 of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my 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 go to college. This was the start in my life. 第一个故事,是关于人生中的点点滴滴怎么串连在一起。我在里德学院
(Reedcollege)
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that 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 couldn't 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 figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. 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 didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven 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 calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't 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 the amount of space between different letter binations, about what makes great
typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh puter, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first puter 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, it's likely that no personal puter would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal puters 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 10 years later.
乔布斯励志演讲稿 篇5
大家好!
17岁时,我读到一则格言,好像是说“把每1天都当成生命中的最后1天,你就会轻松自在。”这对我影响深远,在过去的的33年里,我每天早上都会照镜子自问:“如果今天是此生最后1日,我要做些什么?”每当我连续太多天都得到一个“没事做”的答案时,我就知道我必须有所改变了。
此生当我面临重大抉择时,提醒自己“马上就要死了”,是我用过的最重要的方法。因为,几乎所有事情——所有外界期望、所有荣誉、所有对困窘或失败的恐惧——这些事情在面对死亡的时候全都消失了,只有真正的最重要的东西才会留下。
提醒自己快死了,是我所知道的避免掉入丧失和畏惧陷阱的最好方法。
人生不带来,死不带去,没理由不顺心而为。
1年前,我被诊断出癌症。我在早上7点半作断层扫瞄,在胰脏清楚出现一个肿瘤,我连胰脏是什么都不知道。医生告诉我,那几乎可以确定是一种不治之症,预计我大概活不到3到6个月。医生建议我回家,好好跟亲人们聚一聚,这是医生对临终病人的标准建议。那代表你得试着在几个月内把你将来20xx年想跟小孩讲的话讲完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定,家人才会尽量轻松。那代表你得跟人说再见了。
我整天想着那个诊断结果,那天晚上做了一次切片,从喉咙伸入一个内视镜,穿过胃进到肠子,将探针伸进胰脏,取了一些肿瘤细胞出来。我打了镇静剂,不醒人事,但是我老婆在场。她后来跟我说,当医生们用显微镜看过那些细胞后,他们都哭了,因为那是非常少见的`一种胰脏癌,可以用手术治好。所以我接受了手术,康复了。
这是我最接近死亡的时候,我希望那会继续是未来几十年内最接近的一次。经历此事后,我可以比先前只是假想死亡时更肯定地告诉你们,没有人想死,即使那些想上天堂的人,也想活着上天堂。
但是死亡是我们共同的终点,没有人逃得过。这是注定的,因为死亡很可能就是生命中最棒的发明,是生命交替的媒介,送走老人们,给新生代让出道路。
现在你们是新生代,但是不久的将来,你们也会逐渐变老,被送出人生的舞台。抱歉讲得这么戏剧化,但是这是真的。
你们的时间有限,所以不要浪费时间活在别人的生活里。不要被教条所局限,盲从教条就是活在别人思考的结果里。不要让别人的意见淹没了你内在的心声。最重要的是,要有勇气追逐你们自己的内心世界和直觉,它们多少已经知道你们真正想要成为什么样的人,其他任何事情都是次要的!
在我年轻时,有本神奇的杂志,叫做《Whole Earth Catalog》,当年这是我们的经典读物。那是位住在离这不远的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand发行的,他把杂志办得很有诗意。那是60年代末,个人电脑和桌上出版还没出现,所有内容都是打字机、剪刀、拍立得相机做出来的。杂志内容有点像印在纸上的平面Google,在Google出现之前35年就有了。这本杂志很理想主义,充满新奇工具与伟大的见解。Stewart跟他的团队出版了好几期的《Whole Earth Catalog》,然后很自然地,最后出了停刊号。当时是70年代中期,我正是你们现在这个年龄。在停刊号的封底,有张清晨乡间小路的照片,那种你四处搭便车冒险旅行时会经过的乡间小路。在照片下印了行小字:
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish(求知若饥,虚心若愚)。
那是他们亲笔写下的告别讯息,我总是以此自许。当你们毕业,展开新生活,我也以此祝福你们——Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!