经典名人英语演讲稿40：找到心中所爱（苹果CEO史蒂夫.乔布斯.斯坦福大学演讲）
40. You’ve Got to Find What You Love
40. 找到心中所爱
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 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation——the Macintosh——a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company 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. 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.
我非常幸运，因为在很年轻的时候我就找到了钟爱的东西。沃兹和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们非常努力地工作，十年之后，这个公司从那两个车库中的穷小子发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。一年前，我们刚刚发布了最好的产品——Macintosh，而我也马上黯入而立之年了。但是，就在这个时候，我被炒了蜘鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创建的公司炒了鱿鱼呢？嗯，在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司，在最初的几年里公司运转地很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧，最终我们吵了起来。当争吵得不可开交的时候，董事会站在了他那一边。所以在三十岁的时候，我被炒了。在这么多人的目光下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去，这真是毁灭性的打击。
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 had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我觉得我很令上一代的创业家们失望，我把他们交给我的接力棒弄丢了。我和创办急普的大卫·派克和创办Intel的鲍勃·诺伊斯见面，并试图向他们道歉。这次失败弄得沸沸扬扬的，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但是我渐渐意识到，我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫没有改变这些，一点也没有。我被驱逐了，但是我仍然钟爱我所傲的事情。所以我决定从头再来。
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 successful 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 of my life.
我当时没有觉察，但是事后证明，从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子经历过的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的负重感重新被作为一个创业者的轻松感所代替，没有比这更确定的事情了。这让我觉得如此自由，随之进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurence and I have a wonderful family together.
在接下来的五年里，我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司，还有一个叫Pixar的公司，然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar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，Pixar已经成为世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。在后来的一系列运转中，Apple收购了NeXT，然后我又回到了Apple公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在Apple的今天的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。而且，我还和劳伦斯一起建立了一个幸福完美的家庭。
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 hits 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 your 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. 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 until you find it. Don’t settle.
我可以非常肯定，如果我不被Apple开除的话，这其中任何一件事情也不会发生的。这个良药的味道实在是太苦了，但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候，生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失掉信念。我很清楚惟一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我元比钟爱。你需要去找到你心中所爱。对于工作是如此，对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作，你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到，那么继续找、不要停下来，只要全心全意地去找，在你找到的时候，你的心会告诉你的。就像任何真诚的关系，随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，直到你找到它。否则，不要停下来！