111.2.19 英文課補充＾＾
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And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely 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. 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 of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all 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 begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
而 17 年過後，我真的上了大學，但我天真的選了一個幾乎與史丹佛一樣貴的學院，而我勞動階級父母所有的積蓄都花費在我的大學學費上。6 個月後，我無法看見它的價值。我不知道我人生要做什麼，也不知道大學將如何幫助我想出，而我在這裡，花費我父母畢生所存下的錢。所以我輟學並相信一切事情都將順利解決。這在當時非常的可怕，但回顧過去，這是我做過最好的決定之一。我輟學的那一分起，我可以不用上那些我不感興趣的必修課程，並開始旁聽一些看起來有趣許多的課程。
……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.
而我因跟隨好奇及直覺所涉足的的大部分事情後來都證明是無價的。讓我給你一個例子。
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy 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 sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
里德學院在當時提供全國或許最好的文字藝術課程。整個校園內，每一個海報、每個抽屜上的每一個標記都是用手美麗的刻畫出來。因為我已輟學且不必選修一般的課程，我決定上一堂文字藝術課程來學習文字藝術。我學到襯線及無襯線字體、改變不同字母組合間的空間、是什麼造就優良的排版。它是美麗的、俱歷史意義的、且藝術上微妙而致科學無法描述，而它使我著迷。
None of this had even a hope 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.
這沒有一樣有任何希望會在我生命裡被實際運用。但十年後當我們在設計第一台蘋果電腦時，它全部都回來了，而我們將它全部都設計在蘋果電腦裡。它是第一個有美麗版面設計的電腦。如果我從未在大學裡旁聽那一堂課，蘋果電腦絕不會有幾種不同字體，或間隔均稱的字型，而由於微軟只是複製蘋果，或許沒有個人電腦會有它們。
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.
如果我從未輟學，我就不會旁聽那堂文字藝術課程，而個人電腦可能就不會有它們美麗的版面設計。
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 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 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.
當然，當我只是在大學階段時，想把過往學到的東西連接起來，是不可能的。但十年後往後看它（的意涵）是非常清楚的。再提一次，往前看時你無法把點連起來。只有往後看時你才能連接它們，所以你必需相信點將在你的未來以某種方式連接。你必需相信某些事情 – 你的直覺、命運、人生、因緣、不管是什麼 – 因為相信點將在未來的路上連接起來將帶給你追隨內心聲音的信心，即便它引領你離開已被踏平的步道，而那將造就所有的不同。
老師不是要鼓勵每一個同學都跟Steve Jobs一樣要輟學，而是要祝福大家早點如Steve Jobs找到屬於自己學習的樂趣與熱情。但是，也不要『歪樓』！『老師，我現在就知道自己的興趣，為什麼我還要繼續唸書？』別忘了，Steve Jobs 是完成了基本的學業後，再談論如何實行夢想的，在將近成年以後才著手規劃自己的未來。有理想，很好。有夢最美，但更要踏實築夢！
much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.（我因跟隨好奇及直覺所涉足的的大部分事情後來都證明是無價的） 現在所學習的東西，怎麼知道以後會沒有用呢？舉凡在學校所開立的課程：音樂、藝術、武術、經典（古文）、生命教育，甚至是因果故事……怎麼知道未來不會用到呢！父母、老師、學長和身邊所有長輩很樂意分享自己的經驗給大家，都是用自己生命來證明道理。也許沒有經歷過，就無法切身地了解。但是，老師只要你（妳）相信一件事情：父母、老師、學長和身邊這些長輩，都絕無欺騙或是傷害你（妳）的心。相信，就更有力量！
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