世界No1のスピーチです。
是非音読、シャドウイング、楽しんでください。
(長い 高校生,大学生 スタンフォード大学 卒業式の祝辞 | Steve Jobs スピーチ動画
Youtube動画 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Steve Jobsさんについて > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
MacやiPhoneは本当に素晴らしいプロダクトです。
このスピーチは、Steve Jobsさんが大学の卒業生に送ったスピーチです。彼の経験と伝えたい事が見事に圧縮され、綿密に練られた内容になっています。いつ読んでも、何度読んでも、いつも新たな発見があります。
また、彼の周辺の人々も、彼やその時代について、いろんな逸話やスピーチをしているものがYoutubeにあがっています。
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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.
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(未婚の大学院学生) , and she decided to put me up / for adoption(養子縁組).
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(和らいだ・軟化した) / a few months later / when my parents promised that / I would go to college.
This was the start / in my life.
( https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?t=132 SteveJobs 大学へ行く)
And 17 years later / I did go to college.
But I naively(世間知らずにも) 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(学費).
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 began dropping in / on the ones / that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic.
I didn't have a dorm room(寮の部屋) , so I slept on the floor / in friends' rooms.
I returned coke bottles / for the 5 cent 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.
(https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?t=211 退学と引き換えに、好きな授業を取ったことで、得られたもの)
Reed College at that time / offered / perhaps the best calligraphy(カリグラフィ=英文字の書体の装飾技法) 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 (芸術的に繊細)/ in a way / that science can't capture , and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope ( {当時} これには少しの希望もなかった) / of any practical application / in my life.
But ten 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.
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 backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots / looking forward.
You can only connect them / looking backwards.
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 / (将来) 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.
( https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?t=338 ２番目の話 大好きなものと喪失感 )
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 dollar company / with over 4000 employees.
We just released our finest creation / -the Macintosh- / a year earlier , and I 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(異なる方向へ分かれ始めた) / and eventually we had a falling out.
When we did , our board of directors sided with him (彼の味方をした).
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(壊滅的=復元不可能).
I really didn't know / what to do for a few months.
I felt that / I'd let the previous generation / of entrepreneurs down - that I'd 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(失敗などして台無しにする) 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(予想外の展開) at Apple / had not changed that one bit.
I'd 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've ever happened to me.
The heaviness of being successful / was replaced by the lightness / of being a beginner again , less sure about everything (全部に対しては不確かでしたが).
It freed me / to enter one of the most creative periods / of my life.
( https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?t=447 成功からの落伍者としての再出発)
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.
( 興味があれば、サンプルテキストの ラリーエリソンのスピーチもご覧ください )
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's gonna 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.
(あなたは見つけなければならない have got to ≒ have to)
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 gonna 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 (年が転がっていく=時が経つ).
So keep looking.
Don't settle.
(https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?t=542 三番目の話＝死のとらえ方 )
My third story is about death.
(read 現在形と過去形が同じ綴り = AIでは現在形で読んでしまうが、過去形で読む）
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've 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'm 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 all will 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(がん).
I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning , and it clearly showed a tumor(腫瘍) / on my pancreas(膵臓).
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 ((様々なものごとを整頓しておく=身辺を整理する) , 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 (これから10年かかるだろう) / to tell them / in just a few months.
It means to make sure / everything is buttoned up(全部ちゃんとしておく) / 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(生体検査=生検) , where they stuck an endoscope / down my throat , through my stomach / and into my intestines(腸) , put a needle into my pancreas / and got a few cells(細胞) / from the tumor.
I was sedated(鎮静化されていた=麻酔で眠っていた) , 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.
(the single best = singleは、the best をさらに強調・ 「至高の」)
And that is / as it should be , because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
It's 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's quite true.
(https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?t=751 死から得られた生きることの意味。そして、彼がMacやiPhoneを通して追い求めていたものは、彼がちょうど、聴衆である卒業生と同じ年齢のころ夢中になって読んだアナログな１冊の本の結びの「ある言葉」だった、それを若い君たちにも贈りたい、という回帰。 彼が途中で落としそうになりつつも、その言葉を胸につなぐことができた、その情熱のバトンを、未来に、永遠へと、託そうとしている。 )
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 other's opinions / drown out ( =かきけす drown=水浸しにする,etc ) 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.
When I was young , there was an amazing publication (=出版物) / 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 (Googleがやってくる) - it was idealistic , and overflowing (あふれる) with neat tools(=きちんとした 道具で) / and great notions(=すばらしい意見、考え).
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 ( 倒置 : There were the words beneath it) .
“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.
