"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.
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:
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.
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.