公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第53期:肖恩庫姆斯霍華德大學(xué)(9)

You will change the world

你們將能改變世界

Let that sink in

記住這一點

You will change the world

你們將能改變世界

I want you to take the craziest dream you've everhad

我要你們勇敢去做最瘋狂的夢

that dream that you're too embarrassed to tell anyone about

哪怕這個夢想讓你覺得講出來很不好意思

and I want you to go out there

我希望你們努力去實現(xiàn)

I want you to make it a reality

努力讓夢想變?yōu)楝F(xiàn)實

I don't want you to dream. I want you to do

除了夢想 我還希望你們著手去做

Let me tell you about this dream that I had, this crazy dream

我給你們講講我做過的瘋狂的夢

It's 10 years ago

這是十年前

I've decided to run the New York City marathon

我決定去跑紐約市馬拉松賽

I want to raise money for the public school system

希望借此給公立學(xué)校系統(tǒng)籌錢

I raise $2 million

我要籌兩百萬美元

I even got a call from Oprah

歐普拉還打電話給我

who said that if I beat her marathon time

如果我能突破她的馬拉松時間

she would donate a lot of money to the course

她愿意為我捐很多錢

but there was a catch

但這有個問題

I had to finish the whole thing. I had to finish the entire race

我需要跑完整個馬拉松賽

Now the marathon is 26.2 miles

馬拉松全長26.2英里

Have any of you been on a treadmill for one mile?

你們在跑步機(jī)上跑過哪怕1英里嗎

With 26.2 miles

這可是26.2英里

there were a lot of brothers and sisters running that thing

有很多兄弟姐妹都在參賽

Now here's the crazy point

瘋狂的地方在這里

the recommended training time for marathon is six months

馬拉松的推薦訓(xùn)練時間是六個月

but I came up with this idea where only eight weeks left to train

但我想到要跑馬拉松時 只剩下八周訓(xùn)練時間

only had eight weeks

只有八周

Nobody believed I would finish, everybody thought I was crazy

沒人相信我能完成 大家都認(rèn)為我瘋了

but there was something in me that just wouldn't listen to them

不過我不會聽別人怎么說我