【クマガイコム】"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." スティーブ・ジョブスのスピーチ経由で、Seteve JobsがStanfordの卒業式で語ったスピーチを読みました。
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
僕はApple好きでもなんでもなくて、それゆえSeteve Jobsの人生についても何も知らなかったのですが、本当にすばらしい文章でした。
Remembering that I'll 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.
「今日が人生最後の日だとしたら」というのはよく言われる言葉ですが、実際に死と向き合ったJobsの口から語られる言葉には、とても重みがあります。
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. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is 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 is quite true.
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 others' opinions drown out 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.
もう決して若くは無いJobsが語る「Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish」は、若さゆえの勢いだけではなく、かといってオヤジの説教でもなく、まさにカッコイイ男の生き様みたいなものを感じさせてくれます。和訳もあるようなので(クマガイコムの元記事参照)、英語がニガテな人もぜひ読んでみて下さい。
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