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Here is the full transcript (Edited version) of the famous Steve Jobs’ ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish’ speech which was delivered at Stanford on June 12, 2005. TRANSCRIPT: Thank you. I am honored to be with you today for your commencement 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. Connecting the Dots The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 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 of my life. 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 OK. 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 $0.05 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 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 combinations, 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 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer 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 computer would have them. Trusting the Journey If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers 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 backward 10 years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference. Love and Loss 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 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 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. 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. 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. During the next 5 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 world’s 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, and I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene 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 is 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. About Death 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 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. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes. I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and thankfully I’m fine now. This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s 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. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much.

🎧 节目导读 (Show Notes) 在一段亲密关系中，你是否也曾用“骄傲”作为自己的保护色？我们害怕被拒绝，害怕暴露自己的脆弱，于是竖起高高的心墙，用冷漠、疏离甚至傲慢来伪装自己。但真正的爱，往往要求我们卸下所有的防备，直面自己内心最不堪的一面。 今晚，Mandy 陪你重温简·奥斯汀的不朽名著《傲慢与偏见》（Pride and Prejudice）。让我们跳过那些轻松的舞会和机智的交锋，直接来到故事的尾声。去听听那个曾经高高在上、不可一世的达西先生，是如何在真正深爱的人面前，进行了一场最勇敢、最赤诚的自我剖析。 ✨ Highlight 金句 "You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled." “你给我上了一课，起初确实很难熬，却让我受益匪浅。是你，让我学会了真正的谦卑。” 🎙️ Full English Script 纯英沉浸 Hello, my dear friends. Welcome back to the quiet sanctuary of Literary Glimmer. I am Mandy. Tonight, I want to talk about something we all wear but rarely notice: our armor. Have you ever pushed someone away just because you were afraid they wouldn't like the real you? In this loud and fast-paced world, we learn to protect ourselves early on. We build high walls. We put on masks of indifference, confidence, or even arrogance, just to hide how fragile we truly are inside. We think our pride keeps us safe. But in reality, it only keeps us isolated. True connection, real love, demands something terrifying. It demands vulnerability. It requires us to stand before another person, completely unarmed, and admit that we are flawed. This beautiful, painful process of taking off our armor brings us to the book we are opening tonight: Jane Austen's timeless classic, Pride and Prejudice. When we first meet Mr. Darcy, he is the very picture of arrogance. Wealthy, aloof, and intensely proud. He looks down on everyone around him. But love has a funny way of holding up a mirror to our souls. Loving Elizabeth Bennet forces Darcy to confront the very worst parts of himself. Tonight, we are not looking at his first, disastrous proposal. We are looking at the end of the story. Walking down a quiet country lane, a completely changed man opens his heart. He is no longer the proud, untouchable gentleman; he is just a man, laying his flaws bare before the woman he loves. Let's listen to Mr. Darcy’s profound confession. "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever." Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. "I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle," Darcy said. "As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son, I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves, allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased." "By you, I was properly humbled." There is something incredibly powerful about a person who is willing to look into the eyes of the one they love and say, "I was wrong. I was flawed. And you made me better." We often think of romance as grand gestures, expensive gifts, or poetic declarations. But Austen shows us that the deepest romance is growth. It is the willingness to let your ego be shattered by love, and to painstakingly rebuild yourself into someone worthy of that love. Pride isolates us, but humility connects us. It takes immense courage to undress the soul and admit our own selfishness. But only when we drop our defenses, only when we step out from behind our high walls, can we truly let another person in. Tonight, I hope you find the courage to lower your own walls. Allow yourself to be seen, flaws and all, by someone who truly matters. Goodnight, my friends, and let the glimmer light your way.

“在我们的经济中，深度工作的能力正变得日益稀缺；与此同时，它也变得越来越有价值。” 我们为这一专栏创建了一档独立的播客节目「DeepLog」，欢迎感兴趣的朋友前往订阅收听 。 ________________________________________ 我们生活在一个被算法和通知支配的世界里。“永远在线”被视为一种敬业，“秒回信息”被当成一种美德，我们甚至把“忙碌”当作了衡量个人价值的徽章。但如果这种看似高效的碎片化沟通，正在不可逆地摧毁你创造真正价值的能力呢？ 本期节目，我们将解构计算机科学家卡尔·纽波特（Cal Newport）的清醒之作——《深度工作》（Deep Work）。 在注意力经济时代，你的专注力正在被当成商品廉价出售。我们将探讨为什么“多线程工作”是一个彻头彻尾的谎言，为什么仅仅是“看一眼手机”就能摧毁你大脑的算力，以及如何像工匠一样审视你的网络工具，在这个充满噪音的世界里，夺回你21世纪最核心的认知超能力。 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 核心思维模型 | Mental Models 本期节目中，我们将重点解构以下认知框架，帮助你重建被摧毁的注意力系统： 1. 深度工作 vs. 浮浅工作 (Deep Work vs. Shallow Work) 这两种工作模式在本质上有着天壤之别： * 深度工作： 在无干扰的状态下进行职业活动，将你的认知能力推向极限。这些努力能够创造新价值，提升技能，且难以被复制（比如写一本书、攻克一个复杂的算法）。 * 浮浅工作： 对认知要求不高的事务性任务，通常在容易分心的状态下进行。这类工作往往不能创造多少新价值，且极易被替代（比如回复常规邮件、参加没有重点的进度会）。 真相是：浮浅工作能让你不被开除，但只有深度工作才能让你获得晋升或实现财富跃迁。 2. 注意力残留 (Attention Residue) “多线程任务（Multitasking）”是现代职场最大的谎言。神经科学表明，当我们从任务A切换到任务B时，我们的注意力并不会立即完全转移，而是会有一部分“残留”在任务A上。哪怕你只是花了30秒“顺便看一眼”微信，这种注意力残留也会在接下来的20分钟里，严重削弱你的认知表现。 3. 拥抱无聊 (Embrace Boredom) 深度工作需要极度高度的集中力，但现代人的大脑已经对“新奇刺激”上瘾了。如果你在排队等咖啡的5分钟里，无法忍受无聊而必须掏出手机刷短视频，这说明你大脑中负责深度思考的神经回路已经被重塑（损坏）了。专注力不是一种可以随时召唤的灵感，而是一块需要通过“忍受无聊”来常年训练的肌肉。 4. 网络工具的工匠方法 (The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection) 大多数人使用社交媒体是基于“任何益处法（Any-Benefit Approach）”——只要这个App有“一点点好处”，我们就心安理得地使用它。但深度工作者评估网络工具，就像工匠评估一把锤子：它对我核心的职业和生活目标有实质性的正面影响吗？如果没有，就果断戒掉它。 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 本期金句 | Golden Quotes 【关于稀缺】 “在我们的经济中，深度工作的能力正变得日益稀缺；与此同时，它也变得越来越有价值。因此，那些能够培养这项技能并将其作为核心工作模式的人，将会脱颖而出。” "The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive." 【关于忙碌】 “在缺乏明确指标来衡量什么才算有意义的工作时，许多知识工作者退而求其次，把工业时代的指标拿来用：以可见的方式做很多事情。” "In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner." 【关于专注】 “你是谁、你想什么、你感觉什么、你做什么以及你爱什么，都是你所关注事物的总和。” "Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on." 【关于成就】 “要想产出你最好的作品，深度（Deep）不仅是一个好主意，它是绝对的必需品。” "To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 延伸阅读 | Reading More 卡尔·纽波特在《深度工作》里说：在一个分心的世界里，专注是最稀缺的能力 卡尔·纽波特在《深度工作》里说：想进入深度状态，先选一种你的哲学 卡尔·纽波特在《深度工作》里说：拥抱无聊，是专注力的第一块肌肉 卡尔·纽波特在《深度工作》里说：大多数社交工具，你根本不需要 卡尔·纽波特在《深度工作》里说：你的时间，不应该被浅薄工作填满 卡尔·纽波特在《深度工作》里说：深度工作不是一次冲刺，而是一生的修行 卡尔·纽波特在《深度工作》里说：把深度工作变成你的日常，而不是例外 | DeepLog： 解码全球智慧，记录底层认知。 | 虚舸笔记： 虚舸之上，笔记全球深见。