苏珊沃西基2014在约翰霍普金斯大学(13)

You need to be prepared to explore a bit

你需要做好探索的准备

to make decisions of what you find, enjoy, discover

在追寻 享受 发现的过程中做决定

I never would've experienced any of that

我将永远无法体会到这些

I never would've discovered that technology could be creative

我将永远无法发现技术的创造性

I never would've started my career in tech

我将永远无法开始自己的技术生涯

joined Google

加入谷歌

led YouTube

领导YouTube

if I tried to stick to a specific plan that I had made when I was your age

如果我在你们这么大的时候只是完全遵循一份计划

The Internet as we know it, didn't exist yet when I graduated

因特网在我毕业的时候甚至都不存在

We need to think about our plans being written in pencil not pen

我们的计划需要用铅笔而不是钢笔写

willing to change as the world changes and as we change

我们需要随世界和自身的变化 修改计划

I guarantee you, you will change course

我确信你们也会改变航向

go backward, spring forward, bounce sideways

可能倒退 可能前行 也可能侧移

some of you will need to adjust the plans that you currently have

现在的计划很有可能会发生变化

because it'll turn out to be the wrong fit

因为它并不能适应未来趋势

some of you will start a business

有些人会开公司

you have no idea right now that the world needs

你可能无法知道世界的需求是什么

some of you will fall in love and move half way across the world

有些人会陷入爱河 移居到地球的另一端

some of you could open a cupcake shop

有些人可能会开一家杯形蛋糕店

Thank you in advance of those people

我要提前感谢这些人

There's the old John Lennon quote

我引用约翰·列侬的一句老话

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans"

"当你在忙于制定计划时 生活正离我们而去"

So as you sit there and look around and say man I still have a lot to figure out

也许你坐在这里 心里感到很茫然

I don't know exactly where I'm headed

不知道前路具体该怎么走

just know that's okay

这其实没什么

and your parents should hear that too, it's okay

这句话也要说给家长们 这没什么

If your parents have concerns, they can talk to my parents

如果家长们仍有疑虑 可以同我的父母交流一下

They are right over there in the front row

他们就在那里 坐在前排

My parents could probably write a book of their own

我父母甚至都可以写一本书

about their three crazy daughter and the journeys that we took along the way

讲述三个疯狂的女儿以及她们的人生旅程

a journey that encompass babysitting, investment banking

这包括照看婴儿 投行经营

trips across Siberia, learning Swahili

去西伯利亚旅行 学习斯瓦希里语

studying childhood obesity and starting a personal genomics company

研究儿童肥胖 开创个人基因组公司

So far we've turned out okay

到目前为止 我们都混得很不错

人物简介

Youtube首席执行官苏珊·沃西基在约翰霍普金斯大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。苏珊·沃西基是谷歌旗下全球最大视频网站Youtube的CEO,在2014年福布斯全球权势女性榜中排名第12。演讲中,她讲解了自己人生中的三个故事,包括谷歌两位创始人是如何在她家车库中开始创业的,包括谷歌视频的失败以及谷歌对Youtube的兼并。她从自己的这些亲身经历中,给学生提出了一些饱含哲理的建议。


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