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乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲（二）

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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 five 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 worlds 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, 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 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.