Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Full text of Steve Jobs' speech

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" 是 Steve Jobs 這場演講中最廣為流傳的一句話，但其中最感動我的，反而是以下這些段落。

簡言之，『傾聽內心深處的聲音，讓自己變成自己想要的樣子』。

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.

我非常確定如果不是我被 Apple 開除，這些事情都將不會發生。這是一帖極難入口的藥，但我想病人是需要的。有時候人生的挫折會像磚頭打在頭上那樣痛苦，但請別因此而失去信念。你必須找出你真正喜歡的事物，不管是你的工作或是你摯愛的人。你的工作將會佔據你人生中相當大的部份，而唯一能讓人真正滿意的，是做那些你認為最棒的事。而愛你所為才是唯一能成就非凡事業的途徑。如果你還沒找到，請繼續尋找，不要輕易妥協。

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool 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 face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

知道自己即將不久人世，是幫助我作人生抉擇的最佳工具。因為所有的一切—來自外在的期許，榮耀與驕傲，失敗與困窘的恐懼—在死亡面前都將無足經重，只剩下那些最重要的事。知道自己即將不久人世是避開患得患失陷阱的最佳方法。你已經一無所有，更沒有理由不順從心願。

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

這是我最接近死亡的一次，而且我希望未來十幾年內都是如此。因為親身經歷，我可以比較明確的告訴你們，死亡是一種不但有用而且充滿智慧的體認：

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

沒有人會想死，即便是最嚮往天堂的人也不希望以死來達成。但死亡是我們都將共有的終站，沒有人可以逃得了。也是因為正該如此，死亡本身成了生命中最獨一無二的創舉。它是改造生命的那雙手，除舊並為新的生命鋪路。現在的你們是新生，但不久的將來你們也會逐漸老去凋零。我很抱歉說得如此戲劇化，但這的確是事實。

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

你們的時間有限，所以不該浪費時間去過別人的生活。不要受教條的束縛，活在別人的想法裡。不要被他人的雜音干擾你內心深處的聲音。並且最重要的，要有勇氣去跟隨你的心與直覺，他們會讓你變成你衷心想要的樣子。至於其他的一切，都是次要的。