財富精英勵志演講 第14期:我生命中的三個故事(7)

[00:00.21]Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; 再次說明的是,你在向前展望的時候不可能將這些片斷串連起來; [00:03.19]you can only connect them looking backwards. 你只能在回顧的時候?qū)Ⅻc點滴滴串連起來。 [00:06.05]So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 所以你必須相信這些片斷會在你未來的某一天串連起來。 [00:09.54]You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. 你必須要相信某些東西：你的勇氣、目的、生命、因緣...... [00:15.01]This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. 這個過程從來沒有令我失望,只是讓我的生命更加地與眾不同。 [00:31.44]My second story is about love and loss. 我的第二個故事是關(guān)于愛和失去。 [00:37.09]I was lucky –I found what I loved to do early in life. 我非常幸運, 因為我在很早的時候就找到了我鐘愛的東西。 [00:41.27]Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. 沃茲和我在二十歲的時候就在父母的車庫里面開創(chuàng)了蘋果公司。 [00:44.04]We worked hard, 我們工作得很努力, [00:46.05]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. 十年之后, 這個公司從那兩個車庫中的窮小子發(fā)展到了超過四千名的雇員、價值超過二十億的大公司。 [00:53.15]We had just released our finest creation – the Macintosh –a year earlier, 在公司成立的第九年,我們剛剛發(fā)布了最好的產(chǎn)品,那就是Macintosh。 [00:57.01]and I had just turned 30. 我也快要到三十歲了。 [00:59.27]And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? 在那一年, 我被炒了魷魚。你怎么可能被你自己創(chuàng)立的公司炒了魷魚呢? [01:05.31]Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, 嗯,在蘋果快速成長的時候，我們雇用了一個很有天分的家伙和我一起管理這個公司, [01:11.47]and for the first year or so things went well. 在最初的幾年,公司運轉(zhuǎn)的很好。 [01:14.13]But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. 但是后來我們對未來的看法發(fā)生了分歧, 最終我們吵了起來。 [01:18.48]When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. 當(dāng)爭吵到不可開交的時候，董事會站在了他的那一邊。 [01:22.06]So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. 所以在三十歲的時候，我離開了公司。 [01:26.28]What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, 在這么多人目光下我被炒了，我失去了成年后的整個生活重心， [01:29.31]and it was devastating. 這使我心力交瘁。 [01:31.37]I really didn't know what to do for a few months. 在最初的幾個月里，我真是不知道該做些什么。 [01:34.14]I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – 我覺得我很令上一代的創(chuàng)業(yè)家們很失望， [01:37.51]that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. 我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。 [01:41.10]I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. 我和創(chuàng)辦惠普的David Pack、創(chuàng)辦Intel的Bob Noyce見面，并試圖向他們道歉。 [01:47.31]I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. 這次失敗弄得沸沸揚揚，我甚至想過逃離硅谷 [01:51.38]But something slowly began to dawn on me –I still loved what I did. 但是，漸漸地，我開始有了一個想法——我仍然熱愛我過去所做的一切。 [01:58.09]The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. 在蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些風(fēng)波絲毫沒有改變這一點。 [02:01.24]I had been rejected, but I was still in love. 我雖然被拒之門外，但我仍然深愛我的事業(yè)。 [02:05.08]And so I decided to start over. 于是，我決定從頭開始。

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