考研阅读精选：乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲（二）
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲（二）My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and Istarted Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released ourfinest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company youstarted? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was verytalented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so thingswent well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge andeventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directorssided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had beenthe 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 letthe previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped thebaton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and BobNoyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a verypublic 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. Theturn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had beenrejected, 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 Applewas the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness ofbeing successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginneragain, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the mostcreative periods of my life.
During the next five years, Istarted a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell inlove with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on tocreate the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, andis now the most successful animation studio in the world. In aremarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, andthe technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's currentrenaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been firedfrom Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patientneeded 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 goingwas that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And thatis as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going tofill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfiedis to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do greatwork 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 youfind it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better andbetter as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don'tsettle.
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