"We are What We Choo"中医药知识讲座内容
Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Class of 2010
Baccalaureate
May 30, 2010香菇胡萝卜
As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially “Days of our Lives.” My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers, we’d join the caravan. We’d hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather’s car, and off we’d go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to the trips. On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench at in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the pasnger at. She smoked throughout the trips, and I hated the smell.
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At that age, I’d take any excu to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I’d calculate our gas milea
ge — figure out uless statistics on things like grocery spending. I’d been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can’t remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I’d come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, “At two minutes per puff, you’ve taken nine years off your life!”
I have a vivid memory of what happened, and it was not what I expected. I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. “Jeff, you’re so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division.” That’s not what happened. Instead, my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in the backat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying, my grandfather, who had been driving in silence, pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble? My grandfather was a highly intelligent, quiet man. He had never said a harsh word to me, and maybe this was to be the first time? Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car and apologize to my grandmother. I had no experience in this rea
lm with my grandparents and no way to gauge what the conquences might be. We stopped beside the trailer. My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference be
tween gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can duce yourlf with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
This is a group with many gifts. I’m sure one of your gifts is the gift of a smart and capable brain. I’m confident that’s the ca becau admission is competitive and if there weren’t some signs that you’re clever, the dean of admission wouldn’t have let you in.
Your smarts will come in handy becau you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans — plodding as we are — will astonish ourlves. We’ll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we’ll asmble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we’ve synthesized life. In the coming years, we’ll not only synthesize it, but we’ll engineer it to specifications. I believe you’ll even e us understand the h
uman brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton — all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
How will you u the gifts? And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never en or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles — something that simply couldn’t exist in the physical world — was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most startups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the cond row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d invented an automatic gate clor out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn’t work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilli
ant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company lling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some n to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a fina
l decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice.
Tomorrow, in a very real n, your life — the life you author from scratch on your own — begins.
How will you u your gifts? What choices will you make?
Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?
Will you choo a life of ea, or a life of rvice and adventure?
Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you apologize?
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Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?
Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
When it’s tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?
Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?
Will you be clever at the expen of others, or will you be kind?
I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourlf the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the ries of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourlf a great story. Thank you and good luck!
杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)在普林斯顿(Princeton)毕业典礼上的演讲
昨天无意间发现了一个很精彩的演讲，它是由亚马逊(Amazon)CEO杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)在普林斯顿(Princeton)大学2010年毕业典礼上所做的演讲。
杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)也是普林斯顿大学的校友，在这里不想太多介绍杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)这个人，只是说一说这个演讲带给我们的启发。
英文演讲稿在这里，中文的在这里
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OK, 下面就是从这个演讲中我们能学到点什么：
川朴的功效与作用1. 一开始他讲了小时候的一个故事（似乎国外人很喜欢这种演讲方式--从自己生活中一件小事说起，然后引出要说的关键内容），这种方式不会让人有被灌输的感觉，让听众感到你在和他面对面的交流，这点和Steve Jobs的"No big deal, just three stories"很相似。
2. “讲故事”结束后如何过渡到"the main point"也是很重要的。这个演讲中，“故事”以他爷爷的"Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever."这句话结尾，接下来以“What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices.” 开始接下来的内容，衔接的很流畅。
3. 演讲的最后部分连续用了10几个疑问句，问听众“你愿意.....这样，还
是......这样?”，每一个文句都从不同角度启发听众去思考，从不同的角度阐述自己的主题。虽然Jeff Bezos的演讲并不是慷慨激昂，但其对于听众启发的效果还是很好的。
then, 这个演讲中有很多话值得我们认真思考一下:
1.Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can duce yourlf with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.(聪明是一种天赋，而善良是一种选择。天赋得来很容易——毕竟它们与生俱来。而选择则颇为不易。如果一不小心，你可能被天赋所诱惑，这可能会损害到你做出的选择。)
你是否曾经被天赋所诱惑，为了“炫耀”自己而伤害他人
2. I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. (我认为自己不会为尝试过后的失败而遗憾，倒是有所决定但完全不付诸行动会一直煎熬着我。)
勇敢地去尝试吧，不尝试你不可能成功，等待你的只有无尽的遗憾
3. Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?(你们是被惯性所引导，还是追随自己内心的热情?)
Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?(你们会墨守陈规，还是勇于创新?)客厅用英语怎么说
Will you choo a life of ea, or a life of rvice and adventure?(你们会选择安逸的生活，还是选择一个奉献与冒险的人生?)
Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?(你们会屈从于批评，还是会坚守信念?)
Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize?(你们会掩饰错误，还是会坦诚道歉?)
Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?(你们会因害怕拒绝而掩饰内心，还是会在面对爱情时勇往直前?)
Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?(你们想要波澜不惊，还是想要搏击风浪?)
When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?(你们会在严峻的现实之下选择放弃，还是会义无反顾地前行?)
Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?(你们要做愤世嫉俗者，还是踏实的建设者?)
Will you be clever at the expen of others, or will you be kind?(你们要不计一切代价地展示聪明，还是选择善良?)
我们每个人是不是也应该问问自己同样的问题
4. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourlf the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the ries of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. (在你们80岁时某个追忆往昔的时刻，只有你一个人静静对内心诉说着你的人生故事，其中最为充实、最有意义的那段讲述，会被你
们作出的一系列决定所填满。最后，是选择塑造了我们的人生。)
是我们的选择塑造了我们的人生，多么有哲理的一句话。
