you have to practice who you want to be

you know you don't wake up one morning

and you're suddenly who you think you

want to be you have to put some energy

into it so if you want to be an honest

person you have to be an honest person

every day

even starting at three and four and five

right if you're going to be a hard

worker hard work doesn't just appear you

have to practice hard work you have to

practice effort and i also encourage

them try to help them understand that

good things don't come easy

you know with that effort you know

that's where you grow that's where

growth some of the best times in my life

when i've grown it's when i've done

something hard

when i've overcome a fear

you don't realize that when you're doing

it but when you come out

on the other side you realize wow i've

really

stepped up so i push my girls but more

importantly i love them a lot and that's

what i feel for all of you

i want you guys to

feel that in your lives so that you can

be excellent

because other people told me that i

might not be able to

to do well in school

for whatever reason i was always a good

student i worked hard but i thought

there was some magic

that happened

that made you really you know i didn't

know that it was just plain old hard

work

so there were periods of doubt for sure

i think we all i have doubts today

doubts don't go away

you just learn how to

deal with them you you start knowing

yourself and you become more confident

the more successes you have the more

chances you take

you don't let the the failures or the

stumbles define you

you know everybody falls every now and

then some people fall a lot

and what i realized is that we have long

lives if we're healthy and we do what

we're supposed to do

i'm 47 years old

so think about it whatever mistake i

made when i was 13 who cares

so think about life as a long trajectory

but at the same time

you don't want to make huge mistakes

because when you're young

making big big mistakes can last forever

right so you want to choose wisely

but the stumbles the lessons learned

that's part of life that that makes you

grow but i i came to know that i didn't

know that when i was your age i thought

every every mistake was the end of the

world

i'll never be able i'll never get into

school i'll never be you know of course

we all feel that way

um but just continue to work put the put

the effort in and i think

that has been

some of what's helped me being first

lady

first of all is knowing who you are and

being confident in yourself because

there'll be

clarissa what do you say pushing beyond

other people's labels of you

right that's a big part that's what we

do to each other all the time we don't

even know each other and we already

determined from one glance meeting one

line one word one phrase this is who you

are

so you have to know who you are

before that

and you and you live that reality and

you keep living it out no matter what

and if you're a good have good character

and and good intentions

that that ultimately shines through but

in the end it's hard work

and

i like to work hard and i like to do

good things

and you practice that now

and believe it or not i didn't know it

it prepared me to be the first lady of

united states i didn't know i guess i'm

doing okay but you know what

every day we just get up

and keep doing what we think is the

right thing

read

write

read read if the president were here

one of his greatest

strengths is reading

that's one of the reasons why he's a

good communicator why he's such a good

writer he's a voracious reader so we're

trying to get our girls no matter what

to just be

to love reading and to challenge

themselves with what they read not just

read the gossip books but push

themselves beyond and do things that

maybe they wouldn't do so i would

encourage you all to

to read read read just keep reading and

writing is another skill it's practice

it's practice the more you write the

better you get drafts

our kids are learning the first draft

means nothing you're gonna do seven ten

drafts that's writing it's not failure

it's not

not the teacher not liking you because

it's all marked up and read

when you get to be a good writer you

mark your own stuff in red

and you rewrite and you rewrite and you

rewrite that's what writing is

and if you come out with those skills

and then you're confident and you can

articulate and you can stand up straight

and look anybody in the eye and say this

is who i am it's a pleasure to meet you

that's one of the things we try to do

with our mentoring program with young

girls

my message to them is if you can walk

into the white house

and meet the first lady and say my name

is how are you and look me in the eye

then there's nothing you can't do that's

why it's important if you guys walked

here

are sitting here in front of all these

people

standing tall asking questions using

your voice

you have to practice that

these arenas just show up again and

again and then you just get used to it

the nerves go away and you start

relaxing into your own abilities

but it's practice

when you are struggling

and you start thinking about giving up

i want you to remember something that my

husband and i have talked about since we

first started this journey nearly a

decade ago

something that has carried us through

every moment

in this white house in every moment of

our lives

and that is the power of hope

the belief that something better

is always possible if you're willing to

work for it and fight for it

it is our fundamental belief in the

power of hope that has allowed us to

rise above the voices of doubt and

division

of anger and fear that we have faced in

our own lives and in the life of this

country

our hope that if we work hard enough and

believe in ourselves

then we can be whatever we dream

regardless of the limitations that

others may place on us

the hope that when people see us for who

we truly are

maybe just maybe

they too will be inspired

to rise to their best possible selves

shoot it's the hope of my

folks like my dad

got up every day

do his job at the city water plant

the hope that one day his kids

would go to college

and have opportunities he never dreamed

of

that's the kind of hope

that every single one of us

politicians

parents preachers all of us

need to be providing for our young

people

because that is what moves this country

forward every single day

our hope for the future

and the hard work that hope inspires i

want our young people to know

that they matter

that they

belong

so don't be afraid

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you hear me young people don't be afraid

be focused

be determined

be hopeful

be empowered

empower yourselves with a good education

then get out there and use that

education to build a country worthy of

your boundless promise

lead by example with hope

never fear

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so i figured something out that i

thought i'd tell you about this took me

like 30 years to figure out and i

figured it out on this tour

so there's this old idea you know that

you have to rescue your father from the

belly of the whale right from some

monster that's deep in the abyss you see

that pinocchio for example but it's a

very common idea and i figured out why

that is i think

so

imagine that we already know from a

clinical perspective that

you know if you set out a path towards a

goal which you want to do because you

need a goal and you need a path because

that provides you with positive emotion

right so you set up something as

valuable so that implies a hierarchy you

set up something as valuable you decide

that you're going to do that instead of

other things so that's kind of a

sacrifice because you're sacrificing

everything else to pursue that and then

you experience a fair bit of positive

emotion and meaning as you watch

yourself move towards the goal and so

the implication of that is the the

better the goal the the more full and

rich your experience is going to be when

you pursue it so that's one of the

reasons of

that's one of the reasons for developing

a vision and for fleshing yourself out

philosophically because you want to aim

at the highest goal that you can manage

okay so you do that

and then what you'll find is that as you

move towards the goal there are certain

things that that that you have to

accomplish that frighten you you know

maybe you have to learn to be a better

speaker a better writer a better thinker

you have to be better to people around

you or you have to learn some new skills

and you're afraid of that whatever

because it's going to stretch you if you

if you pursue a goal and it's and so

that'll put you up against challenges

okay so all the clinical

data indicates well the opposite of safe

spaces as jonathan height has been

pointing out that what you want to do

when

you identify something that someone is

avoiding that they need to do because

they're afraid you have them voluntary

con voluntarily confronted and so you

break it down what you try to do if

you're a behavior therapist is you break

down the thing they're avoiding into

smaller and smaller pieces until you

find a piece that's small enough so

they'll do it and it doesn't really

matter as long as they start it you know

then they can put the next piece on the

next piece and what happens is

they don't get less afraid exactly they

get braver

they get they get it's like there's more

of them you can and here's why so

imagine

you do something new

and that's informative right there's

information in the action and then you

can incorporate that information and

turn it into a skill and turn it into a

transformation of your perceptions so

there's more to you because you've tried

something new so that's one thing the

second thing is

and there's good biological evidence for

this now that

if you put yourself in a new situation

then new genes code for new proteins and

build new neural structures a new

nervous system structures same thing

happens to some degree when you work out

right because your your muscles are

responding to the load but your nervous

system does that too so you imagine that

there's a lot of potential you locked in

your genetic code

and then if you put yourself in a new

situation then then the stress that's

the situational stress that's produced

by that particular situation unlocks

those genes and then builds new parts of

you so that's very cool because who

knows how much there is locked inside of

you okay so now here's the idea

so

let's assume that that scales as you

take on heavier and heavier loads

that more and more of you you get more

and more informed because you're doing

more and more difficult things but more

and more of you gets unlocked

and so then

what that would imply is that

if you got to the point where you could

look at the darkest things so that would

be the abyss right that would be the

deepest abyss if you could look at the

harshest things like the most brutal

parts of the suffering of the world and

the malevolence of people and society if

you could look that

look at that

straight and and directly that that

would turn you on maximally

and so that's the idea of rescuing your

father because imagine that you're like

the potential composite of of all your

all the ancestral wisdom that's locked

inside of you biologically but that's

not going to come out at all unless you

stress yourself unless you unless you

challenge yourself and the bigger the

challenge you take on the more that's

going to turn on and so that as you take

on a broader and broader range of

challenges and you push yourself harder

then more and more of what you could be

turns on and that's equivalent to

transforming yourself into the ancestral

father into all because you're you're

like the what would you call it you're

the consequence of all these

living beings that have come before you

and that's all

part of your biological potentiality and

then if you can push yourself then all

that clicks on and that turns you into

who you could be that's and that's the

re-representation of that

positive ancestral father the point is

your best strategic position

is

how am i insufficient and how can i

rectify that

that's what you've got and the thing is

you are insufficient

and you could rectify it

both of those are within your grasp if

you aim low enough one of the things why

do you see that that's another thing you

keep saying aim low enough have a low

enough bar why do you why do you mean

that well let's say you've got a kid and

you want the kid to improve you don't

set them a bar that's so high that it's

impossible for them to attain it you

take a look at the kid and you think

okay this kid's got this range of skill

here's a challenge we can throw at him

or her that exceeds their current level

of skill but gives them a reasonable

probability of success

and so like i'm saying it

tongue-in-cheek to some degree you know

it's like but if you're but i'm doing it

as an aide to humility it's like well i

don't know how to start improving my

life someone might say that and i would

say well you're not aiming low enough

there's something you could do that you

are regarding as trivial

that that you could do that you would do

that would result in an actual

improvement but it's not a big enough

improvement for you so you won't lower

yourself enough to take the opportunity

incremental steps yes and so this is

also what is achieved through exercise

it's one of the most important

well what do you do when you go and lift

weights you don't go in like if you

haven't bench pressed before you don't

put 400 pounds on the damn bar and drop

the and drop the bar through your skull

right you know you think look when i

started working out when i was a kid i

was i was weighed about 130 pounds and i

was six foot one was a thin kid and i

smoked a lot i wasn't in good shape i

wasn't in good physical shape and i went

to the gym and it was bloody

embarrassing you know people would come

over and help me with the goddamn

weights here's how you're supposed to

use this you know it's humiliating and

maybe i was pressing 65 pounds or

something at that point you know but

what am i going to do i'm going to lift

up 150 pounds and injure myself right

off the bat no i had to go in there and

strip down and put my skinny goddamn

self in front of the mirror and think

son of a there's all these

monsters in the gym who've been lifting

weights for 10 years and i'm struggling

to get 50 pounds off the bar tough luck

for me but i could lift 50 pounds and it

wasn't fair very long until i could lift

75 and well you know how it goes but and

i never injured myself when i was

weightlifting and the reason for that

was i never pushed myself past where i

knew i could go and i pushed myself a

lot you know i gained 35 pounds of

muscle in about three years in

university i kind of had to quit because

i was eating so goddamn much i couldn't

stand it it's eating like six meals a

day it was just taking up too much time

but there's a humility in determining

what it is that the wretched creature

that you are can actually manage aim low

and i don't mean don't aim and i don't

mean don't aim up

but you have to accept the fact that

you can set yourself a goal that you can

attain and there's not going to be much

glory in it to begin with

because if you're not in very good shape

the goal that you could could attain

tomorrow isn't very glorious

but it's a hell of a lot better than

nothing and it beats the hell out of

bitterness and it's way better than

blaming someone else it's way less

dangerous and you could do it and what's

cool about it

there's a statement in the new testament

it's called the matthew principle and

economists use it to describe how the

economy and the world works to those who

have everything more will be given from

those who have nothing everything will

be taken it's like what's very

pessimistic in some sense because it

means that as you start to fail you fail

more and more rapidly but it also means

that as you start to succeed you succeed

more and more rapidly and so you take an

incremental step and well now you can

lift 55 pounds instead of 52.5 pounds

you think what the hell's that it's like

it's one step on a very long journey

and so it's it and it starts to compound

on you so a small step today means puts

you in a position to take a slightly

bigger step the next day and then that

puts you in a position to take a

slightly bigger step the next day you do

that for two or three years man you're

starting to stride

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i found that nothing in life

is worthwhile

unless you take risks

nothing

nelson mandela said there is no passion

to be found

playing small

in settling for a life that's less

than the one you're capable of living

now i'm sure in your experiences in

school and applying to college and

picking your major and deciding what you

want to do with life i'm sure people

have told you to make sure you have

something to fall back on make sure you

got something to fall back on honey

but i never understood that concept

having something to fall back on

if i'm going to fall

i don't want to fall back on anything

except my faith

i want to fall forward

i figure at least this way i'll see what

i'm going to hit

fall forward

this is what i mean

reggie jackson struck out 2600 times in

his career the most

in the history of baseball but you don't

hear about the strikeouts people

remember the home runs

fall forward

thomas edison conducted 1 000 failed

experiments did you know that i didn't

know that because the one thousand and

first was the light bulb

fall forward

every failed experiment is one step

closer to success you've got to take

risks and i'm sure you've probably heard

that before but i want to talk to you

about why that's so important

first

you will fail at some point in your life

accept it you will lose you will

embarrass yourself you will suck at

something there's no doubt about it

and i know that's probably not a

traditional message for a graduation

ceremony but hey

i'm telling you embrace it because it's

inevitable

and i should know

in the acting business you fail all the

time early on in my career

i auditioned for a part in a broadway

musical

perfect role for me i thought

except for the fact that i can't sing

so

i'm i'm in the wings i'm about to go on

stage but the guy in front of me he's

singing like

like like paparazzi he's just wrong

and he's just going on and on and on and

i'm just shrinking i'm getting smaller

and smaller

so they say oh thank you very much thank

you very much and you will you'll be

hearing from us

so i come out with my little sheet music

and

it was it was uh

just my imagination by the temptations

that's what i came up with

so i hand it to the the the accompanist

and uh she looks at it and looks at me

and looks out at the director and was

like

all right

so i i start you know that's i'm i'm

gonna sing i'm like you know and

it's just my imagination

once again

and then

coming

and i'm not saying anything so i'm

thinking i'm getting better so i can

start getting into it

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[Applause]

running this oh yeah

yeah thank you thank you thank you very

much mr washington thank you

so i assumed i didn't get the job

but the next part of the audition he

called me back the next part of the

audition is the acting part of the

audition so i'm like hey okay maybe i

can't sing but i know i can act

so they pair me with this guy and again

i didn't know about musical theater and

musical theater is big so they can reach

everyone all the way in the back of the

stadium and i'm more from a realistic

naturalistic kind of acting where you

you know you actually talk to the person

next to you

so i don't know what my line was my line

was well hand me the cup

and his line was well i will hand you

the cup my dear the cup will be there to

be handed to you

i said

okay

will

should i give you the cup back oh yes

you should give it back to me because

you know that is my cup and it should be

giving back

to me

i didn't get the job

but here's the thing

i didn't quit

i didn't fall back

i walked out of there to prepare for the

next audition and the next audition and

the next audition

i prayed

i prayed

and i prayed

but i continued to fail

and fail

and fail but it didn't matter because

you know what

there's an old saying

you hang around the barber shop long

enough sooner or later you're going to

get a haircut

so you will catch a break and i did

catch a break

last year

i did a play called fences on broadway

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someone talked about it

won the tony award

and i didn't have to sing by the way

but here's the kicker

it was at the court theater

it was at the same theater that i failed

that first audition

30 years prior

the point is every graduate here today

has the training and the talent to

succeed

but do you have the guts

to fail

here's my second point about failure if

you don't fail

you're not even trying

i'll say it again if you don't fail

you're not even trying my wife told me

this great expression to get something

you never had you have to do something

you never did

les brown's a motivational speaker he

made an analogy about this he says

imagine you're on your death bed and

standing around your deathbed are the

ghosts representing your unfulfilled

potential the ghost of the ideas you

never acted on the ghost of the talents

you didn't use and they're standing

around your bed angry disappointed and

upset

they say we we came to you because you

could have brought us to life they say

and now we have to go to the grave

together so i ask you today

how many ghosts are going to be around

your bed when your time comes

you've invested you you've invested a

lot in your education and people have

invested in you and let me tell you the

world needs your talents man does it

ever i just got back from africa like

two days ago so if i'm rambling on it's

cause i'm jet lagged i just got back

from south africa it's beautiful country

but there are places there with terrible

poverty that need help and africa is

just the tip of the iceberg the middle

east needs your help japan needs your

help alabama needs your help tennessee

needs your help louisiana needs your

help philadelphia needs your help

the world needs a lot and we need it

from you

we really do we need it from you young

people i mean i'm not speaking for the

rest of us up here but i know i'm

getting a little grayer

we need it from you the young people

because remember this so you got to get

out there

you got to give it everything you got

whether it's your time

your your your talent

your prayers

or your treasures because remember this

you will never see a u-haul

behind a hearse

you can't take it with you

the egyptians tried it

and all they got was robbed

so the question is

what are you going to do with what you

have i'm not talking about how much you

have

some of you are business majors some of

you are theologians nurses sociologists

some of you have money some of you have

patience some of you have kindness some

of you have loved some of you have the

gift of long-suffering whatever it is

whatever your gift is

what are you going to do

with what you have

all right now here's my last point about

failure

sometimes

it's the best way

to figure out where you're going

your life will never be a straight path

i began at fordham university as a

pre-med student i i

i took a course called the

cardiac morphos i still can't say it

cardiac

cardiac morphogenesis i couldn't read it

i couldn't say it i sure couldn't pass

it

so then i decided to go into pre-law

then journalism and with no academic

focus my grades took off in their own

direction

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yeah down

i was a 1.8 gpa

one semester and the university very

politely suggested that it might be

better to take some time off

i was 20 years old i was at my lowest

point

and then one day and i remember the

exact day march 27 1975 i was helping my

mother in her beauty shop my mother

owned a beauty shop up in mount vernon

and there's there was this older woman

who was considered one of the elders in

the town and i didn't know her

personally but i was looking in the

mirror and every time i looked in the

mirror i could see her behind me and she

was staring at me

she just kept looking at me every time i

looked at her she kept giving me these

strange looks

so she finally took the dryer off her

head and said

some she said something i'll never

forget

first of all she said somebody give me a

piece of paper give me a piece of paper

she said young boy

i have a prophecy

a spiritual prophecy

she said you are going to travel the

world

and speak to millions of people now mind

you i'm 20 years old i'm flunked out of

school in fact like a wise ass i'm

thinking to myself maybe she's got

something in that crystal ball about me

getting back into school next fall

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but maybe she was on to something

because later that summer while working

as a counselor at the ymca camp in

connecticut we put on a talent show for

the campers and after the show another

counselor came up to me and asked have

you ever thought about acting you're

good at that

so when i got back to fordham that fall

i got in and i changed my major once

again

for the last time

and in the years that followed just as

that woman prophesies i have traveled

the world and i have spoken to millions

of people through my movies

millions who up until this day

couldn't see me i who up till this day i

couldn't see while i was talking to them

and they couldn't see me they could only

see the movie

they couldn't see the real me

but i see you today

and i'm encouraged by what i see

and i'm strengthened

by what i see

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and i love

what i see

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today i want to tell you three stories

from my life

that's it no big deal

just three stories

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the first story

is about connecting the dots

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i dropped out of reed college after the

first six months but then stayed around

as a drop in for another 18 months or so

before i really quit

so why'd i drop out

it started before i was born

my biological mother was a young unwed

graduate student and she decided to put

me up for adoption

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 a few months later

when my parents promised that i would go

to college this was the start

in my life

and 17 years later i did go to college

but i naively 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 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 okay

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

it wasn't all romantic

i didn't have a dorm room so i slept on

the floor in friends rooms

i returned coke bottles for the five

cent deposits to buy food with

and i would walk the seven miles across

town every sunday night

to get one good meal a week at the hari

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

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

none of this had even a hope of any

practical application

in my life

but 10 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 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

[Music]

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 two billion dollar company

with over 4 000 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

[Music]

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 and 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'd 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'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

have ever happened to me

the heaviness of being successful was

replaced by the likeness 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 world's

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 and i returned to

apple and the technology we developed it

next is at the heart of apple's current

renaissance

and loreen 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

sometime life sometimes life's going to

hit 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 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

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 so keep

looking

don't settle

my third story

is about death

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 am 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 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

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'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

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

stay hungry stay foolish

today

i want to talk about purpose

[Music]

but i'm not here to give you the

standard commencement about finding your

purpose we're millennials we try to do

that instinctively

instead i'm here to tell you that

finding your purpose isn't enough

the challenge for our generation is to

create a world where everyone has a

sense of purpose

one of my favorite stories

is when jfk went to go visit the nasa

space center and he saw a janitor

holding a broom and he asked him what he

was doing and the janitor replied mr

president i'm helping put a man on the

moon

purpose

is that feeling

that you are a part of something bigger

than yourself

that you are needed and that you have

something better ahead to work for

purpose is what creates true happiness

and today i want to talk about three

ways that we can create a world where

everyone has a sense of purpose

by taking on big meaningful projects

together

by redefining equality so everyone has

the freedom to pursue their purpose

and by building community

all across the world

so first let's take on big meaningful

projects

our generation is going to have to deal

with tens of millions of jobs replaced

by automation like self-driving cars and

trucks

but we have the potential to do so much

more than that

every generation has its defining works

more than three hundred thousand people

work to put that man on the moon

including that janitor

millions of volunteers immunize children

around the world against polio and

millions of more people built the hoover

dam and other great projects

and now it's our generation's turn

to do great things

now i know maybe you're thinking i don't

know how to build a dam

i don't know how to get a million people

involved in anything

well

let me tell you a secret

no one does when they begin

ideas don't come out fully formed

they only become clear as you work on

them

you just have to get started

movies and pop culture just get this all

wrong

the idea of a single eureka moment is a

dangerous lie it makes us feel

inadequate because we feel like we

haven't had ours yet

and it prevents people with seeds of

good ideas from ever getting started in

the first place

[Music]

in our society

we often don't take on big things

because we're so afraid of making

mistakes

that we ignore all the things wrong

today if we do nothing

the reality is

anything we do today

is going to have some issues in the

future

but that can't stop us from getting

started

so what are we waiting for

it is time for our generation defining

great works

how about stopping climate change before

we destroy the planet and getting

millions of people involved

manufacturing

and installing solar panels

how about curing all diseases and

getting people involved by asking

volunteers to share their health data

track their health data and share their

genomes

[Music]

these achievements are all within our

reach

let's do them all in a way that gives

everyone in our society a role

let's do big things not just to create

progress but to create purpose

the second is redefining

our idea of equality so everyone has the

freedom to pursue their purpose

now

many of our parents had stable jobs

throughout their careers but in our

generation we're all a little

entrepreneurial whether we're starting

our own projects or finding our role in

another one

and you know that's great because our

culture of entrepreneurship is how we

create so much progress

an entrepreneurial culture thrives when

it is easy to try lots of new ideas

facebook wasn't the first thing i built

i also built chat systems and games

study tools and music players and i'm

not alone

jk rowling got rejected 12 times before

she finally wrote and published harry

potter

the greatest successes come from having

the freedom to fail

now

today

we have a level of wealth and equality

that hurts everyone

when you don't have the freedom

to take your idea and turn it into a

historic enterprise

we all lose

and right now today our society is way

over indexed on rewarding people when

they're successful and we don't do

nearly enough to make sure that everyone

can take lots of different shots

now let's face it

there is something wrong with our system

when i can leave here and make billions

of dollars in 10 years

while millions of students can't even

afford to pay off their loans let alone

start a business

i know a lot of entrepreneurs

and i don't know a single person who

gave up on starting a business because

they were worried they might not make

enough money

but i know too many people who haven't

had the chance to pursue their dreams

because they didn't have a cushion to

fall back on if they failed

[Music]

every generation

expands its definition of equality

previous generations fought for the vote

and civil rights

they had the new deal

and great society

and now it's time for our generation to

define a new social contract

we should have a society that measures

progress

not just by economic metrics like gdp

but by how many of us have a role we

find meaningful

we should explore ideas like universal

basic income to make sure that everyone

has a cushion to try new ideas

and we're all going to make mistakes

so we need a society that's less focused

on locking us up and stigmatizing us

when we do

and as our technology keeps on evolving

we need a society that is more focused

on providing continuous education

through our lives and yes

giving everyone the freedom to pursue

purpose isn't going to be free

people like me should pay for it

and a lot of you are going to do really

well and you should too

but it's not just about giving money

you can also give time

and i promise you

if you just take an hour to a week

that's all it takes to give someone a

hand and help them reach their potential

now maybe you're thinking that's a lot

of time i'm not sure if i have that much

time

i used to think that

we can all make time to give someone a

hand

let's give everyone the freedom to

pursue purpose not just because it's the

right thing to do but because when more

people can turn their dreams into

something great we are all better for it

purpose doesn't only come from work

the third way

we can create a sense of purpose for

everyone is by building community

and in our generation when we say

purpose for everyone

we mean everyone in the world

in a recent survey of millennials around

the world

asking what most defines our identity

the most popular answer wasn't

nationality ethnicity or religion

it was citizen of the world

that's a big deal

every generation expands the circle of

people we consider one of us

and in our generation that now includes

the whole world

we understand that the great arc of

human history bends towards people

coming together in ever greater numbers

from tribes to cities to nations to

achieve things that we could not on our

own

we get that our greatest opportunities

are now global

we can be the generation that ends

poverty

that ends disease

and we get that our greatest challenges

need global responses too

no country can fight climate change

alone or prevent pandemics

progress now requires coming together

not just as cities or nations but also

as a global community

[Music]

but we live in an unstable time

there are people left behind by

globalization

across the whole world

and it's tough to care about people in

other places when we don't first feel

good about our lives here at home

the purpose and stability in our own

lives

that we can start to open up and care

about everyone else too

and the best way to do that

is to start building local communities

right now

change starts local

even global change starts small with

people like us

in our generation

the struggle of whether we connect more

whether we achieve our greatest

opportunities comes down to this

your ability

to build communities

and create a world where every single

person has a sense of purpose

i i try to think what did i say that

could actually be helpful or useful to

you in the future

and uh i thought perhaps uh tell the

story of how i sort of came to be here

how did some of these things happen

and and maybe there's some lessons there

um because i often find myself wondering

how did this happen

so

when i was young i i

i didn't really know what i was going to

do uh when i got older

but but then eventually i thought that

the idea of inventing things would be

would be really cool

the reason i thought that was because

i i read a quote from author c clock

which said that

efficiently advanced technology is

indistinguishable from magic

and and that's really true

if you think if you go back

say 300 years the things that we take

for granted today

would be you'd be burned at the stake

for you know being able to fly

that's crazy

being able to see over long distances

being able to communicate having um

effectively

with with the internet

a group mind of sorts

and having access to all the world's

information

instantly from almost anywhere in the

earth

this is stuff that that really would be

magic it would be considered magic

in times past in fact i think it

actually goes beyond that because there

are many things that we take for granted

today that weren't even imagined

in times past they weren't even in the

realm of magic

so that it actually goes goes beyond

that

so i thought well

you know if if i can do

some of those things basically if i can

advance technology then that's like

magic and that would be really cool and

i always had sort of a slight

existential crisis because i was trying

to figure out what does it all mean like

what's the purpose of things

and i came to the conclusion that if if

we can advance the the knowledge of the

world if we can do things that expand

the scope and and scale of consciousness

then we're better able to ask the right

questions and become more enlightened

and and that's really the only way

forward

so i i studied

physics and business because i figured

in order to do a lot of these things you

need to

know how the universe works and you need

to know how

how the economy works

and you also need to be able to bring a

lot of people together to work with you

to create something because it's very

difficult to do something as as an

individual if it's if it's a significant

technology

i originally came out to to california

to

try to figure out

how to improve the

energy density of of electric vehicles

basically to try to figure out if there

was an advanced capacitor that that

could serve as an alternative to

batteries

and um that was in 95 and

that's also when the internet

started to happen

and it i i thought well i can either

pursue this tech this technology where

success maybe may not be one of the

possible outcomes which is always tricky

or

participate in the internet and and be

part of it so i decided to to drop out

did some internet stuff what one of

which was paypal and and i think maybe

it's helpful to

say one of the things that was important

then in the creation of paypal

was uh was kind of how it started

because

the initial thought was with paypal was

to create an agglomeration of financial

services so you have one place where

all your financial services needs would

be seamlessly integrated and and work

smoothly and then we had like a little

feature which was to do email payments

and whenever we'd show the show the

system off to someone uh we'd show the

hard part which was the um

the agglomeration of financial services

which was quite difficult to put

together nobody was interested then we'd

show people email payments which was

actually quite easy and everybody was

interested so i think it's important to

to take feedback from your environment

you know it's it you want to be as

closed loop as possible it's so we focus

on email payments and really try to make

that work and that's what really got

things to take off

but but if we hadn't if we hadn't

responded to what people said then we we

probably would not have been successful

so it's important to look for things

like that and and focus on them when

when you when you see them and get

correct your prior assumptions

going from paypal

what what are some of the

the other problems that uh are likely to

most affect the future of humanity

it really wasn't from the perspective of

what what's the rancor best way to to

make money um which which is which is

okay but

what i think is going to most affect the

future humanity so i think the biggest

terrestrial problem we've got is a

sustainable energy but the production

and consumption of energy in a

sustainable manner if we don't solve

that this the sensory is the century

we're we're in deep trouble

and then the the other one being the

extension of life beyond earth to make

life multi-planetary

so that's the basis for

the latter is the basis force for spacex

and the former is the basis for

tesla and solar city and and when i

started spacex i it was actually

initially

i thought that

well there's there's no way one could

possibly start a rocket company i wasn't

that crazy

but but then

i thought well what is a way to

increase nasa's budget that was actually

my initial goal

so

i i thought well if we can do a low-cost

mission to mars something called mars

oasis which would land seeds with with

dehydrate wood with seasoned dehydrated

nutrient gel and you hydrate them upon

landing and then you'd have this great

sort of money shot of green plants on a

red background and the public tends to

respond to um

precedents and superlatives

and this would be the first life on mars

the furthest that life's ever traveled

as far as we know

and and i thought well that that would

get people really excited

and and and therefore increase at nasa's

budget so so obviously the financial

outcome from such a mission would

probably be zero so anything better than

that was on the upside

so i actually went to i went to russia

three times to look at buying a

refurbished icbm because that that was

the best deal

and uh i can tell you it was very weird

going there in 2000 late 2001 2002

going to the russian rocket forces and

saying i'd like to buy

two of your biggest rockets

but you can keep the nuke

that's a lot more

um

and

that was 10 years ago i guess so

they thought i was crazy but but i did

have money so that was

that was okay

after making several trips to to russia

i came to the conclusion that

that actually uh

my initial impression was was wrong

about

because my initial thought was well

that there's not enough will to explore

and expand beyond earth and have a mars

base and that kind of thing but i can't

conclusion that that was wrong um in

fact there's plenty of will particularly

in the united states

because the united states

is a nation of explorers of people who

came here from from other parts of the

world i think

the united states really

a

distillation of the spirit of human

exploration

but if people think it's impossible then

or it's going to completely break the

federal budget then they're not going to

do it

so

after

my third trip i said okay

what we really need to do here is try to

solve the space transport problem

and uh and started spacex

and uh this this was against the advice

of pretty much everyone i talked to

but one friend made me sit down and

watch a bunch of videos of rockets

blowing up let me tell you he wasn't far

wrong i think it was it was tough going

there in the beginning because i'd never

built anything physical i mean i built

like little model rockets as a kid and

that kind of thing but

um i never had a company that built

anything physical so i'd figure out how

to how to do all these things and and

bring together the right team of people

and so we we did all that and and then

failed three times um

it it was tough tough going

because thing about a rocket is that the

the passing grade is a hundred percent

and uh

you you don't get to

actually test the rocket in the real

environment that it's going to be in

so i think so the best analogy for for

rocket engineering is

it's like if you want to create a really

complicated bit of software

you could you can't run the software as

an integrated hole and you can't run it

on the computer it's intended to run on

but the first time you put it all

together and write it on that computer

it must run with no bugs

that's that's basically the essence of

it so we missed the mark there

that the first launch i was picking up

bits of rocket near the

the launch site was bizarre and uh

but we we learned with with each

successive flight and uh and were able

to with uh especially with the fourth

flight in 2008 uh reached orbit and that

was also with the last bit of money that

we had

thank goodness uh that that happened i

think the saying is fourth times the

charm

so that's we got the falcon one two

orbit

and then

uh began to scale that up to to the

falcon 9 which is

about an order of magnitude more a

thrust it's uh around a million pounds

of thrust

and

we managed to get that to orbit and then

uh developed dragon spacecraft

which

recently was able to dock and return to

earth from the space station

that was a white knuckled event

so yeah it's a huge relief still can't

quite believe it actually happened

but there's a lot more that that that

must happen beyond this in order for

humanity to be to become a space faring

civilization ultimately

a multi-planet species and that's

something i think it's it's it's vitally

important and and i hope um

that that some of you will will

participate in in that either at spacex

or at other companies because it's just

really one of the

the most important things for the

preservation and extension of

consciousness

it's worth noting as i'm sure people are

aware that the earth has been around for

four billion years

and civilization at least in terms of

having

writing has been around for 10 000 years

and that's been generous and i think um

i'm actually i'm actually fairly

optimistic about the future of earth so

i don't want to

i don't want to sort of people to have

the wrong impression that i think we're

all about to die

i think things will most likely be okay

for a lo for a long time on earth

but not not for sure but most likely

but but even if it's if it's sort of 99

likely one a one percent chance is still

it's still worth spending a fair bit of

effort to ensure that we have um we've

backed up the biosphere you know

planetary redundancy if you will

and so i think i think it's really

really quite important and in order to

do that

there's a breakthrough that needs to

occur which is to create a rapidly and

completely reusable um transport system

to mars which which is one of those

things that's right on the borderline of

of impossible

um but that that's sort of the the thing

that we're

we're going to try to achieve there with

with with spacex

and then on the on the on the tesla

front uh the goal with tesla was really

to try to show that what electric cars

can do because people had the wrong

impression we had to change people's

perception of an electric vehicle

because they used to think of it as

something that was slow and

ugly and had low range and like a golf

cart

and and so that's why we created the

tesla roadster to show that you can be

fast

attractive and and long range and it's

amazing how

even though you can show that something

works on paper you know and the

calculations are very clear

until you actually have the physical

object and they can they can drive it it

doesn't really sink in for people

um and so that that i think is is

something worth noting if if you're

gonna create a company the first thing

you should try to do is create a working

prototype

um you know everything everything looks

great on powerpoint but if you have if

you have an actual demonstration article

even if it's in primitive form that's

much much more effective for convincing

people

i i think the the overarching point i

want to make is that um

you guys are the magicians of the 21st

century they're like anything holds you

back imagination is is the limit

um and

go out there and create some magic thank

you

[Music]

you

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你必须练习你想成为

什么样的人 你知道你不会有一天早上醒来，

然后突然间你

就变成了你认为自己想成为的人 你必须投入一些

精力所以如果你想成为一个诚实的

人，你有 每天做一个诚实的人，

即使从三四岁和五岁开始，

如果你要成为一个努力

工作的人，努力工作不只是看起来你

必须努力工作，你必须

努力工作，我也鼓励

他们尝试 帮助他们了解

美好的事物来之不易

你知道通过努力你知道

这就是你成长的地方 这就是

成长的地方 当我成长时，我生命中的一些最美好的时光

是当我做

了艰难的事情

时 克服了恐惧，

你没有意识到当你这样做的

时候，但是当你从另一边出来时，你会

意识到哇，我

真的

站出来了，所以我推了我的女孩，但

更重要的是我很爱她们，这

就是 我为你们所有人感到

我

希望你们在生活中感受到这一点，这样你们就可以

成为 太好了，

因为其他人告诉我，

无论出于何种原因

，我可能无法在学校

取得好成绩

这只是普通的辛勤

工作，

所以肯定会有怀疑的时期

成功 你拥有的

机会越多

你不要让失败或挫折

定义你

你知道每个人都会时不时跌倒

有些人跌倒

很多 我意识到

如果我们健康和长寿 我们就会长寿 我们做

我们应该做的

我47岁

所以想想我13岁时犯的任何错误

谁

在乎所以把生活想象成一个漫长的轨迹

但同时

你不想做大 错误

是因为当你年轻的

时候 g 大错误可以永远

正确，所以你想明智地选择，

但失败的教训

是让你成长的生活的一部分，

但我开始知道，我不

知道当我像你一样大的时候，我认为

每一个 错误是世界末日

我永远无法

上学我永远不会成为你当然知道

我们都有这种

感觉但只要继续努力

投入努力我

认为 有

一些帮助我成为第一

夫人

首先是知道你是谁并对

自己有信心，因为

会有

克拉丽莎你说什么超越

别人对你的标签，

这很重要，这就是我们

所做的 一直彼此 我们甚至不

认识彼此 我们已经

从一眼就确定了

一行一行 一个词 一个短语 这就是

你，

所以你必须在那之前知道你是谁

，你和你生活在那个现实中

无论如何，你都要坚持下去

如果你是一个好人，有良好的性格

和良好的意图

，最终会发光，

但最终这是艰苦的工作

，

我喜欢努力工作，我喜欢

做好事

，你现在

就练习，信不信由你 不知道

这让我为成为美国第一夫人做好了准备

如果总统在场

，请阅读他最大的

优势之一就是阅读

这就是为什么他是一个

很好的沟通者为什么他是一个如此优秀的

作家他是一个贪婪的读者所以我们

试图让我们的女孩不管做

什么 热爱阅读，并

用他们所读的东西挑战自己，不仅

阅读八卦书，而且

超越自我，做一些

他们可能不会做的事情，所以我

鼓励

大家阅读阅读只是继续阅读和

写作是另一种技能 练习

它 练习的越多，

你得到的草稿就越多 草稿

我们的孩子正在学习 初稿

意味着什么 你会做七十

份草稿 这不是失败

不是老师不喜欢你 因为

它都被标记了，

当你得到时阅读 要成为一名优秀的作家，

您将自己的东西标记为红色，

然后重写，重写，

重写，这就是写作

，如果您掌握了这些技能

，然后您就会有信心，可以

清晰表达，并且可以

站直 看着任何人的眼睛说这

就是我 很高兴见到你

这是

我们与年轻女孩的指导计划中尝试做的事情之一

我给她们的信息是如果你能

走进白宫

并见到你 第一夫人，说我的名字

是你好吗，看着我的眼睛，

那么没有什么是你做不到的，这就是

为什么如果你们走到

这里，坐在所有这些高高在上的人面前，

用

你的 声音

你必须练习

这些竞技场只是一次

又一次地出现然后你就习惯

了神经消失了你开始

放松自己的能力

但是

当你挣扎

并且开始考虑放弃

我想要的时候这是练习 你要记住我

丈夫和我自从

近十年前第一次开始这段旅程以来一直在谈论的

一些事情，它在我们生命的每一刻都带着我们度过

了这座白宫的每一刻

，这就是希望的力量，

相信

如果您愿意

为之努力并为之奋斗，那么更好的事情总是可能的。

这是我们

对希望力量的基本信念，它使我们能够

超越

我们所面临的怀疑和愤怒和恐惧的声音

我们自己的生活和这个国家的生活

我们希望，如果我们足够努力并

相信自己，

那么我们就可以成为我们的梦想，

而不管

其他人可能施加的限制

我们希望，当人们看到

我们真正的

样子时，也许他们也会受到

鼓舞，努力成为最好的自己

希望有一天他的孩子

能上大学

并获得他从未梦想过的机会

，

这

是我们每一位

政治家、

父母、传教士、我们所有人都

需要为我们的年轻人提供的希望，

因为这就是推动这个国家的动力

每一天都向前

传递我们对未来的希望和希望激发的辛勤工作我希望我们的年轻人

知道他们的

归属

很重要所以不要害怕

[音乐]

你听到我说年轻人不要

害怕专注

下定

决心 充满希望

获得力量

用良好的教育赋予自己力量

然后走出去并利用这种

教育来建立一个值得

你无限承诺的国家

以身作则 带着希望

永远不要害怕

[音乐]

所以如果 我想出了一些

我想告诉你的事情，我花了大约

30 年的时间才弄明白，我

在这次旅行中弄明白了，

所以有一个老想法，你知道

你必须把你的父亲从

鲸鱼的肚子里救出来，对吧 例如，从

深渊中的某个怪物中，您会

看到匹诺曹，但这是一个

非常普遍的想法，我想知道为什么

会

这样

，所以想象一下，我们已经从

临床角度

知道，如果您开辟了一条通往

你想做的目标，因为你

需要一个目标，你需要一条道路，因为

它为你提供了积极的情绪，

所以你设置了一些

有价值的东西，这意味着一个层次结构你

设置了一些有价值的东西你

决定你要去 这样做而不是

其他事情，所以这是一种

牺牲，因为你牺牲了

一切来追求它，然后

当你看到

自己朝着目标前进时，你会体验到相当多的积极情绪和意义 o

这意味着

目标越好，

当你追求它时，你的体验就会越充实和丰富

，所以这就是

形成愿景和在哲学上充实自己的原因之一，

因为 你想

瞄准你可以管理的最高目标，

所以你做到了

，然后你会发现，当你

朝着目标前进时

，你必须完成某些事情，这让你

害怕你知道

也许你 必须学习成为更好的

演讲者 更好的作家 更好的思考者

你必须对周围的人更好，

或者你必须学习一些新技能

，无论如何你都会害怕，

因为如果你追求，它会让你感到

紧张 一个目标，它就是这样，所以

这会让你面对挑战，

好吧，所以所有临床

数据都表明安全空间的反面，

因为乔纳森高度一直

指出，

当

你发现某事时你想要做什么 某人正在

避免他们需要做的事情，因为

他们害怕你让他们

自愿面对，所以你

分解它如果

你是一名行为治疗师，你试图做

的事情是你分解他们避免的事情成

越来越小的碎片，直到你

找到足够小的碎片所以

他们会这样做，这并不

重要，只要他们开始它你知道

然后他们可以将下一块放在

下一块上，会发生什么是

他们不 不要减少害怕 他们

变得更勇敢

他们得到了 就像有更多

的人你可以，这就是为什么

想象

你做一些新的事情

，这是有

信息的，因为行动中有信息，然后你

可以整合这些信息

并将其转化为 一种技能，并将其

转化为你的感知的转变，所以你

有更多的东西，因为你尝试了

一些新的东西，所以这是

第二件事

，现在有很好的生物学证据

表明

如果你 p 让你自己处于一个新的环境中，

然后新的基因编码新的蛋白质并

构建新的神经结构 新的

神经系统结构

当你正确锻炼时，在某种程度上也会发生同样的事情，

因为你的肌肉正在

对负荷做出反应，但你的神经

系统也会这样做 所以你想象

你的基因密码中有很多潜力

，然后如果你把自己置于一个新的

环境中，那么由特定情况

产生的情境压力会

解锁

这些基因，然后构建

你的新部分，所以 这很酷，因为谁

知道你的内心有多少被锁住了，

所以现在是这个想法，

所以

让我们假设随着你

承受越来越重的负载

，你会

越来越多地了解情况，因为你是 做

越来越多困难的事情，但

越来越多的人被解锁

，所以

这意味着

如果你到了可以

看起来 t 最黑暗的事情，

如果你能看到

最残酷的事情，比如世界上最

残酷的苦难以及

人和社会的恶意，

那

将是最深的深渊。

直截了当，这

会让你最大程度地兴奋

，所以这就是拯救你父亲的想法，

因为想象你就像

你所有的所有祖先智慧的潜在组合，这些

智慧在生物学上被锁定

在你的内心，但这

不会 除非你给

自己压力，除非你

挑战自己，

否则你

就出来了 以及更多你可以

打开的东西，这相当于

把你自己变成了祖父，

因为你就像你所说的

那样 你是

所有

出现在你面前的生物的结果

，这

都是你生物潜力的一部分，

然后如果你能推动自己，那么所有

的点击都会让你

成为你可以成为的

人 -代表那个

积极的祖父，关键是

你最好的战略位置

是

我怎么不够，我怎么能

纠正

那是你所拥有的，问题是

你不够

，你可以纠正它，

这两者都在你的掌握之中 如果

你的目标足够低其中一件事

为什么你会看到那是另一件事你

一直在说目标足够低有一个

足够低的标准为什么你为什么你的

意思很好假设你有一个孩子并且

你想要这个孩子 为了提高你不要

给他们设置一个太高的标准，以至于

他们不可能达到它你

看看孩子，你认为

好吧这个孩子有这样的技能范围

这是我们可以向他

或她提出的挑战 超过 他们目前

的技能水平，但给了他们合理

的成功概率

，所以就像我

在某种程度上开玩笑说你知道

这就像，但如果你是，但我这样

做是为了谦虚 就像我

不知道如何开始改善我的

生活 有人可能会这么说 我会

说你的目标不够低

你可以做一些你

认为微不足道

的事情 你可以做 你会

做 会带来实际的

改善，但这

对您来说还不够大，因此您不会降低

自己的水平以抓住机会

增量步骤是的，所以

这也是通过锻炼实现的，

这是最重要

的之一 当你去

举重时，你不会像

没有卧推之前那样做，不要

把 400 磅放在该死的杠上，然后把杠铃

放下，然后把杠铃穿过你的头骨，

你知道你想看看什么时候

我小时候开始锻炼

我当时体重约 130 磅，

身高 6 英尺，是个瘦小的孩子，

我抽烟很多

知道人们会

过来帮我拿该死的

重量这是你应该如何

使用它你知道这很丢脸，

也许我当时正在按下 65 磅或

其他东西你知道但

我要做什么我要去

举起 150 磅并立即伤害自己

不，我不得不进去

脱光衣服，把我那该死的瘦骨嶙峋的

自己放在镜子前，想着

狗娘

养的，健身房里有这么多怪物

举重 10 年，我一直

在努力减掉 50 磅

对我来说运气不好，但我可以举起 50 磅，

直到我可以举起 75 磅，这并不公平

，而且你知道它是怎么回事，但是

我 我在举重时从来没有伤害过自己

，原因

是我从来没有推过我的 精灵过去了我

知道我可以去的地方，我

很努力，你知道我

在大学的大约三年里增加了 35 磅的肌肉，

我不得不放弃，因为

我吃得太多了，我

受不了它吃得像 一天六顿饭，

这只是占用了太多时间，

但是要谦虚地确定

你这个可怜的生物

实际上可以控制低

目标，我不是说不瞄准，我不是

说不要 不要瞄准，

但你必须接受这样一个事实，

你可以为自己设定一个你可以实现的目标，

而且一开始不会有太多的

荣耀，

因为如果你的状态不是很好

，你可以实现的目标 可以实现

明天不是很光荣，

但它比

没有好得多，它战胜了

痛苦，它比

责备别人要好得多，它的危险性更小

，你可以做到，它有什么

很酷

的 新约中的声明

称为马修普里 nciple和

经济学家用它来描述

经济和世界如何运作给那些

拥有一切的人会从

那些一无所有的人那里得到更多的

东西，这就像

在某种意义上非常悲观，因为这

意味着当你开始失败时 失败的

速度越来越快，但这也

意味着当你开始成功时，你的成功

速度也越来越快，所以你迈出一个

渐进的步骤，现在你可以

举起 55 磅而不是 52.5 磅，

你认为这到底是怎么回事？

踏上一段很长的旅程

，就这样，它开始

在你身上复合，所以今天的一小步意味着

你

第二天可以迈出更大的一步，然后

你就可以

迈出更大的一步 第二天你就这样做

了两三年男人你

开始大步前进

[音乐]

我发现生活中没有什么

是值得的，

除非你冒险

没有

纳尔逊曼德拉说没有

激情 在适应

一种

比你现在能够过的生活还少

的生活时，我敢肯定

人们告诉你要确保你有

东西可以依靠 确保你

有东西可以依靠 亲爱的，

但我从来不理解这个概念

如果我要跌倒

我不想跌倒

除了我的信仰之外，

我想继续

前进 棒球，但你没有

听说过三振出局 人们

记得本垒打

向前

倒下 托马斯·爱迪生进行了 1000 次失败的

实验你知道吗我不

知道因为第 1000

次是灯泡

向前倒下，

每次失败的实验都是 一针 p

离成功更近了，你必须承担

风险，我相信你以前可能

听说过，但我想先和你

谈谈为什么这很重要，

你会在生命中的某个时刻失败

接受它你会失败 你

会让自己难堪 你会被

一些毫无疑问的事情所吸引

，我知道这可能不是

毕业典礼的传统信息，

但嘿，

我告诉你接受它，因为这是

不可避免的

，我应该知道

在演艺界你失败了

在我职业生涯的早期，

我试镜了一个百老汇

音乐剧的

完美角色，我想

除了我不会唱歌，

所以

我在准备好我要

上台了 但是在我面前的那个人他

唱歌

就像狗仔队一样他只是错了

他一直在继续

我只是在缩小我越来越小

所以他们说哦非常

感谢非常非常感谢 你会

听到我们的消息，

所以我出来了 用我的小乐谱

，

这

只是我对诱惑的想象，

这就是我想出的，

所以我把它交给伴奏者

，呃，她看着它，看着我

，看着导演，然后是

好吧，

所以我开始你知道那是我我

要唱歌我就像你知道

这只是我的想象

再次出现

然后我什么也没说所以我

想我正在变得更好 所以我可以

开始参与

了 试镜的下

一部分是试镜的表演部分，

所以我想嘿，好吧，也许我

不会唱歌，但我知道我可以表演，

所以他们把我和这个人配对，

我又不知道音乐剧

音乐剧院很大，所以

他们可以在体育场后面一直接触到每个人

，我更喜欢 rom 一种现实的

自然主义表演，

你知道你实际上和你旁边的人交谈，

所以我不知道我的台词是什么我的

台词很好，把杯子递给我

，他的台词很好，我会把

杯子递给你我的 亲爱的杯子会在那里

递给你

我说

好吧

我应该把杯子还给你哦是的

你应该把它还给我因为

你知道那是我的杯子它应该

还给我

我没有 得到这份工作，

但这是

我没有辞职的事情我没有退缩

我走出那里为

下一次试镜和下一次试镜

和下一次试镜做准备

失败

又失败，但没关系，因为

你知道

有句老话，

你早晚要在理发店里呆

得够久，你

就会理发，

所以你会休息一下，去年我确实

休息了

我在百老汇演了一出戏叫栅栏

[音乐]

有人谈论它

不会 他获得了托尼奖

，顺便说一句，我不必唱歌，

但这是在法院剧院的踢球者

，在同一个剧院，我在 30 年前的

第一次试镜中失败了，

关键是今天这里的每个毕业生

都接受了培训，并且 成功的天赋，

但你

有勇气失败

吗这是我关于失败的第二点如果

你不失败

你甚至没有尝试

我会再说一遍如果你没有失败

你甚至没有尝试我的妻子 告诉我

这个伟大的表达来得到

你从未有过的东西 你必须做

你从未做过的事情

莱斯布朗是一位励志演说家 他

对此做了一个类比 他说

想象你在你的临终病床上

站在你临终前的

鬼魂是代表你的 未实现的

潜力 你

从未付诸行动的想法的幽灵

你没有使用的才能的幽灵 他们

站在你的床边生气 失望和

沮丧

他们说我们来找你是因为你本

可以让我们活过来 他们说

现在我们 必须一起去坟墓

，所以今天我问你，

当你的时间到来时，你的

床会有多少鬼

你这个

世界需要你的才华

，我曾经两天前刚从非洲回来，

所以如果我漫无目的地说这是

因为我时差，我

刚从南非回来，这是一个美丽的国家，

但那里有一些地方

需要帮助的可怕贫困和非洲

只是冰山一角

中东需要你的帮助 日本需要你的

帮助 阿拉巴马州需要你的帮助 田纳西州

需要你的帮助 路易斯安那州需要你的

帮助 费城需要你的

帮助 世界需要很多，我们需要

来自

你们我们真的需要你们

年轻人我的意思是我不是在

为我们其他人说话但我知道我

越来越灰暗

我们需要你们年轻人

因为记住这一点所以你必须

出去，

你有 给它你得到的一切，

无论是你的时间

你的天赋

你的祈祷

还是你的宝藏因为记住这

一点你永远不会看到

灵车后面的拖车

你不能随身

携带埃及人试过了

，他们得到的只是 被抢劫了，

所以问题

是你将如何处理你所

拥有的我不是在谈论你有多少

你是商业专业的一些

人是神学家护士社会学家

有些人有钱有些人有

耐心有些人 你有善心 你们中的

一些人爱过一些人 有

忍耐的天赋 不管是

什么你的天赋是

什么 你打算

用你现在拥有的东西做什么

这是我关于失败的最后一点

有时

这是最好的

方法 弄清楚你要去哪里

你的生活永远不会是一条笔直的道路

我在福特汉姆大学作为一名

医学预科

生开始学习一门名为

心脏形态的课程我仍然不能说

心脏

心脏形态发生我不能 读它

我不能说我肯定不能通过

它

所以然后我决定进入法律预科

然后是新闻学并且没有学术

重点我的成绩朝着自己的方向起飞

[音乐]

是的

我是1.8 gpa

一个学期，大学非常

有礼貌地建议请假可能会

更好。

我当时 20 岁，我处于

最低谷

，然后有一天，我记得

1975 年 3 月 27 日的确切日期，我正在帮助我的

母亲美容 我妈妈

在弗农山开了一家美容店

，有一位年长的女士

，她被认为是镇上的长者

之一，我个人不认识她，

但我正在

照镜子，每次我照镜子

镜子里我能看到她在我身后，她

正盯着我

看，每次我看着她，她就一直看着

我，她一直用

奇怪的眼神看着我，

所以她终于把吹风机从头上拿下来

，说了

一些她说的话，我会的 首先永远不要

忘记

她说有人 给我

一张纸 给我一张纸

她说小男孩

我有一个预言

一个精神预言

她说你将环游

世界

并与数百万人交谈 现在请

注意我已经 20 岁了

辍学实际上就像一个聪明的驴子，我在

想自己也许她

在那个水晶球里有一些关于我

明年秋天重返学校的事情

[音乐]

但也许她正在做某事，

因为那个夏天晚些时候，

作为一名工作人员 康涅狄格州 ymca 营地的辅导员

我们为营员们举办了一场才艺表演，

表演结束后，另一位

辅导员走过来问我，

你有没有想过表演你很

擅长，

所以当我那年秋天回到福特汉姆时，

我 进去了，我最后一次改变了我的专业

，在接下来的几年里，正如

那个女人预言我已经

环游世界，我

通过我的电影与数百万人交谈，数百万人

直到今天

还看不到 直到现在的我 今天我

和他们说话时我看不见，他们看不见我，他们只能

看电影，

他们看不到真实的我，

但我今天看到了你

，我对我所看到的感到鼓舞

，我

我被我所看到的

[音乐]所强化

，我喜欢

我今天所看到的

[音乐]

我想告诉你

我生命

中的三个故事，没什么大不了的，

只是三个故事

[音乐

]第一个故事

是关于连接点

[ 音乐]

在最初的六个月后，我从里德大学辍学

，但在我真正退出之前，我又留

了 18 个月左右的时间，所以

我

为什么

在我出生之前就辍学了

我的亲生母亲还年轻 未婚

研究生，她决定

收养我，

她非常强烈地认为我应该

被大学毕业生收养，所以

一切都准备好让我

在出生时被律师和他的妻子收养，

除了当我突然出现时，他们

决定 在最后一刻他们

真的想要一个女孩

所以我的父母 在等待名单

上的人半夜接到电话

问

我们有一个意想不到的男婴你

想要他

他们说当然

我的亲生母亲后来

发现我母亲从未从

大学毕业而我父亲 从未

从高中毕业

她拒绝签署最终的收养

文件

她只是在几个月后才松了口气，

当时我的父母承诺我

会上大学 这是我生命的开始

，17 年后我确实上过大学，

但我天真 选择了一所

几乎和斯坦福大学一样贵的大学，六个月

后我所有工人阶级父母的

积蓄都花在了我的大学学费上

我看不到

它的价值

我不知道我想用

我的生活做什么 不知道大学

将如何帮助我解决这个问题

，在这里我花光了我

父母为他们节省了一生的所有钱，

所以我决定辍学并相信

一切都会好起来的

，当时这很可怕 但是

回想起来，这是

我辍学那一刻

做出的最好的决定之一

我没有宿舍，所以我睡

在朋友房间的地板上。

我退回可乐瓶以支付 5

美分的押金来购买食物

，每周日晚上我会步行 7 英里穿过

城镇，

每周在

哈里克里希纳神庙

我很喜欢它

，我凭着好奇心和直觉偶然发现的大部分东西

后来都变成了无价之宝

每张海报 每个抽屉上的每个标签都

用精美的手写书法

因为我辍学了，

不必参加普通课程

我决定参加书法课来

学习如何做到

这一点 关于衬线和无衬线

字体关于改变

不同字母组合之间的空间量

关于是什么让伟大的排版变得伟大

它是美丽的历史艺术

微妙以科学无法

捕捉

的方式我发现它很迷人

这一切都没有希望

在我生命中的任何实际应用中，

但 10 年后，当我们

设计第一台 Macintosh 计算机时，

这一切都回到了我的脑海

，我们将它全部设计到了 mac

当然，在大学里，mac

永远不会有多种字体或

按比例间隔的字体，

而且由于windows只是复制了mac

，如果我从未辍学，很可能没有个人电脑

会有它们

，我永远

不会参加那个书法

课和个人电脑 可能没有

他们所做的出色的排版

当然不可能

将这些点连接起来 当我在

大学的时候，但很清楚

十年后再次回头看

，你无法连接向前看的点

，你只能

向后看，

所以你必须相信这些点会

在你的未来以某种方式连接你

必须 相信一些你的直觉命运

生活业力，

因为相信点点滴滴会

在路上连接起来

会让你有信心跟随

你的心，

即使它会让你偏离陈旧的

道路，这会让一切变得

不同

[音乐]

我的 第二个故事

是关于爱和失落

我很幸运我在生命的早期就找到了我喜欢做的事情我

20 岁时在我父母的车库里创办了苹果公司。

我们努力工作，10 年里苹果公司

从我们两个人成长 在

车库里进入一家拥有 4000 多名员工、价值 20 亿美元的公司

一年前我们刚刚发布了我们最好的创造 Macintosh，我

刚满 30 岁

，然后我被解雇

了，你怎么能被你创办的公司解雇

[音乐]

随着苹果的成长，我们聘请了一个我

认为非常有才华的人来

和我一起经营公司，第一年

左右事情进展顺利，但后来我们

对未来的愿景开始出现分歧

，最终我们吵了一架

。 我们的董事会

支持他，所以在 30 岁的时候，我出

柜了，并且非常公开地表明

了我整个

成年生活的重点已经消失了，这是

毁灭性的，

我真的不知道该怎么做

几个月

我 我觉得我让上

一代企业家失望了，

因为接力棒被

传给了我，所以

我会见了大卫帕卡德和鲍勃诺伊斯，

并试图为搞砸了这么严重而道歉，

我是一个非常公开的失败，我 甚至

想过逃离

山谷，但我慢慢开始

明白了

我仍然喜欢我

所做的事情在苹果公司发生的事情并没有

改变

我曾经被拒绝但我仍然

爱着所以我决定 重新开始

我没看到

但事实证明，被

苹果公司解雇是我可能发生过的最好的事情

。成功的沉重感被再次

成为初学者的相似性所取代

在接下来的五年中，我创办了

一家名为 next 的公司，另一家名为

pixar 的公司爱上了一位了不起的

女人，她后来成为了我的妻子

pixar 继续创作了世界

上第一部电脑动画故事片玩具

故事，现在是 世界上最成功的

动画工作室

发生了翻天覆地

的变化 苹果接下来收购了我，我又回到了苹果，我们接下来开发的技术是苹果当前

复兴的核心

，洛琳和我有一个美好的

家庭，

我很确定

如果我

没有被苹果公司解雇，这一切都不会发生，

这是一种很糟糕的药，但我

想病人有时需要它，

有时是生命。” 我会

用砖头砸你的头

不要失去信心

我相信唯一

让我坚持下去的就是我爱我

所做的你必须找到你爱的东西

为

你的爱人

工作你的工作将

占据你生活的大部分时间，真正满足的唯一方法

就是做你

认为伟大的工作，

而做伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事

如果您还没有找到它，请继续寻找

并且不要

像所有内心问题一样安定下来，

当您找到它时就会知道，并且就像任何良好的

关系一样，

随着岁月的流逝，它会变得越来越好，所以请继续

寻找

我的第三个故事

是关于死亡的，

当时我 17

过去33年

每天早上我都会照镜子问

自己今天是不是最后一天 如果我的生活

我想做我今天要做的事

，每当答案连续太多天都是否定的时候，

我知道我需要

改变一些事情，

记住我很快就会死

是最重要的工具 曾经

遇到过帮助我做出

人生重大选择的人，

因为几乎所有事情

所有外部期望 所有骄傲 所有

对尴尬或失败的恐惧 这些

事情在死亡面前消失了

只留下真正重要

的事情 记住你将要死 是

我所知道的最好的方法来避免陷入

认为你有什么要失去的陷阱

你已经赤身裸体没有理由

不跟随你的心

没有人想死

即使是想去天堂的人

也不想死 到达那里

，但

死亡是我们共同的目的地，

没有人逃脱过它

，这应该是因为

死亡很可能

是生命中唯一最好的发明

它是生命的改变剂它

清除旧的为新的让路

现在是新的你，

但不久之后的某一天，你

会逐渐变成旧的，被

清除掉

很抱歉这么戏剧化，但这是

真的，

你的时间是有限的，所以不要浪费它过

别人的生活

不要 被教条所困，

活在

别人的想法里

不要让别人的意见

淹没你自己内心的声音，最

重要的是有勇气跟随

你的内心和直觉

他们不知何故已经知道你真正

想成为什么

其他一切都是次要的

保持饥饿 保持愚蠢

今天

我想谈谈目的

[音乐]

但我不是来给你一个

关于找到你的目的的标准开始

我们是千禧一代我们试图本能地做到

这一点

而不是我来这里 告诉你，

找到你的目标是不够

的，我们这一代人的挑战是

创造一个每个人都有

目标感的

世界我最喜欢的故事之一

是肯尼迪去参观美国宇航局的

太空 中心，他看到一个看门人

拿着扫帚，他问他

在做什么，看门人回答总统先生，

我正在帮助一个人登上

月球

目的

是

感觉你是比你自己更大的东西的一部分

需要，并且您有

更好的工作可以为目标而工作，这

是创造真正幸福的原因

，今天我想谈谈

我们可以通过重新定义平等来共同承担有意义的重大项目来创造一个

每个人都有目标感的世界的三种方式，

所以 每个人都有

追求自己目标的自由，

并通过

在世界各地建立社区，

所以首先让我们进行有意义的大型

项目，

我们这一代人将不得不

处理数以千万计的工作

被自动驾驶汽车和卡车等自动化所取代，

但我们 有潜力做的

不仅仅是

每一代人都有其决定性的工作

超过三十万人

努力将那个人送上月球，

包括 看门

人数以百万计的志愿者

为世界各地的儿童接种脊髓灰质炎疫苗，还有

数以百万计的人建造了胡佛

水坝和其他伟大的项目

，现在轮到我们这一代人

去做伟大的事情

了 建一座大坝

我不知道如何让一百万人

参与任何事情

让我告诉你一个秘密

当他们开始时没有人会

做想法没有完全形成

它们只有在你工作时才会变得清晰

你只是有 开始

电影和流行文化只是把这一切都

弄错

了一个单一的尤里卡时刻的想法是一个

危险的谎言它让我们感到

不足，因为我们觉得我们

还没有拥有我们的

，它阻止了拥有

好想法种子的人 首先开始

[音乐]

在我们的社会中，

我们通常不会做大事，

因为我们太害怕犯错误

，以至于如果我们什么都不做，我们今天会忽略所有错误的事情

，现实就是

我们今天所做的任何事情

未来会有一些问题，

但这不能阻止我们

开始，

所以我们还在等什么

现在是我们这一代定义

伟大作品的时候了，

如何在

我们破坏地球并让

数百万人参与之前阻止气候变化

制造

和安装太阳能电池板

如何治愈所有疾病并

通过要求

志愿者分享他们的健康数据让人们参与进来

跟踪他们的健康数据并分享他们的

基因组

[音乐]

这些成就都在我们的能力范围内

在我们的社会中，一个角色

让我们做大事，不仅是为了

进步，而且是为了创造

目标；第二是重新定义

我们的平等理念，让每个人都可以

自由追求自己的目标

无论我们是开始

自己的项目还是在另一个项目中寻找我们的角色，我们都有点创业精神

，你知道 这很棒，因为我们

的创业文化是我们

创造如此多进步

的方式，当

尝试很多新想法很容易时，创业文化就会蓬勃发展

。facebook不是我建造的第一件事，

我还建造了聊天系统和游戏

学习工具和音乐播放器 我

并不孤单

jk罗琳在

她最终写作和出版

哈利波特之前被拒绝了12次最大的成功来自拥有

失败的自由

现在

今天

我们拥有一定程度的财富和平等

，

当你没有自由时会伤害每个人

把你的想法变成一个

历史性的企业，

我们都

输了

现在让我们面对现实吧

，我们的系统出了问题，

我可以离开这里并

在 10 年内赚到数十亿美元，

而数百万学生甚至

无法偿还 我的贷款更不用说

创业

了 追求梦想的机会，

因为

如果他们失败了

[音乐]

每一代人都在

扩展其对平等的定义，

前几代人为投票

和公民权利而奋斗，

他们拥有新政

和伟大的社会

，现在 现在是我们这一代人

定义新社会契约的时候了

我们应该有一个社会来衡量

进步，

不仅通过 GDP 等经济指标，

而且通过我们中有多少人拥有我们认为有意义的角色

我们应该探索诸如普遍

基本收入之类的想法，以确保 每个人

都有尝试新想法的缓冲

，我们都会犯错误，

所以我们需要一个不那么专注

于锁定我们和污名化我们的社会，

因为我们这样做

并且我们的技术不断发展 不断发展，

我们需要一个更专注

于在

我们的生活中提供持续教育的社会，是的，

让每个人都有追求

目标的自由不会是免费的，

像我这样的人应该为此付出代价

，你们中的很多人都会做得

很好 你也应该这样做，

但这不仅仅是给钱，

你也可以给时间

那是

很多时间我不确定我是否有那么多

时间

我曾经认为

我们都可以腾出时间帮助某人

让我们给每个人

追求目标的自由不仅因为这是

正确的事情而是因为 当更多的

人可以将他们的梦想变成

伟大的事情时，我们都会变得更好，因为

目标不仅仅是来自工作

，

我们可以为每个人创造目标感的第三种方式

是通过建立社区

和我们这一代人说的

目标 e 对于每个人，

我们指的是世界

上的每个人 在最近一项针对世界各地千禧一代的调查中，

询问什么最能定义我们的

身份 最受欢迎的答案不是

国籍种族或宗教

而是世界公民

这很重要

每一代人都在扩大圈子

在我们认为是我们

中的一员的人中，在我们这一代人中，现在

包括整个世界，

我们明白

人类历史的伟大弧线转向

越来越多的人聚集在一起，

从部落到城市再到国家，以

实现我们无法实现的目标

我们知道我们最大的机会

现在是全球

性的 城市或国家，但也

作为一个全球社区

[音乐]

但我们生活在一个不稳定的时代

，有人离开 在

全球全球化

的阻碍下，

当我们第一次

对自己在家里的生活感觉不好时，很难关心其他地方

的

人

我们可以开始开放并

关心每个人的自己生活的目标和稳定性 否则

，最好的方法就是

现在就开始建立当地社区

改变从地方开始，

甚至全球改变从

像我们这一代人这样的人开始 我们

是否能更多地联系

我们是否获得最大

机会的斗争归结为

你的

建立社区

和创造一个每个

人都有目标感的世界的能力

ii 试着想一想我说了

什么对你未来有帮助或有用的

东西 来到这里

这些事情是怎么发生

的，也许那里有一些教训，

嗯，因为我经常发现自己想

知道这是怎么发生的，

所以

当我年轻的时候 ii

我真的不知道我长大后要做什么

，但是后来我最终认为

发明东西的想法

会非常

酷，因为我认为这是因为我

读了作者 c clock 的一句话

它说

高效先进的技术

与魔法没有区别，

如果你认为如果你回到

300 年前，我们今天认为理所当然的事情就是

你会被烧死在火刑柱上，

因为你知道能够飞行

这太疯狂

了 能够远距离看到

能够与互联网

有效地交流

一个群体的头脑

并且可以从地球上几乎任何地方立即访问世界上所有的

信息

这真是

太神奇了 在过去会被认为是魔法

事实上我认为它

实际上超出了这一点，因为

有很多我们今天认为理所当然的

事情在过去甚至没有

想象过 因为他们甚至不在

魔法领域，

所以它实际上超出了

这个范围，

所以我想

你知道如果我能做

一些这些事情，如果我能

推进技术，那就像

魔法一样，那真的很酷

我总是有一种轻微的

生存危机，因为我

试图弄清楚这一切意味着

什么，比如事情的目的是什么

，我得出的结论是，如果

我们能推进世界的知识，

如果我们能做到 扩大

意识的范围和规模的事情，

那么我们就能够更好地提出正确的

问题并变得更加开明

，这确实是唯一的

出路，

所以我学习了

物理和商业，因为我想

这样做是为了做很多这些 你

需要

知道宇宙是如何运作的，你

需要知道

经济是如何运作的

，你还需要能够将

很多人聚集在一起与你

一起创造一些东西，因为这非常

困难 作为个人做某事，

如果它是一项重要的

技术，

我最初来到加利福尼亚

，

试图弄清楚

如何

提高电动汽车的能量密度，

基本上试图弄清楚是否

有一种先进的电容器

可以作为电池的替代品

，嗯，那是在 95 年

，那也是互联网

开始出现

的时候，我想我可以要么

追求这项技术，这项技术，

成功可能不是

可能的结果之一，这总是很棘手

或

参与互联网并成为其中的

一部分，所以我决定退出

做一些互联网的事情，其中

之一是贝宝，我认为

说一说当时在创建贝宝时很重要的事情可能会有所帮助

嗯，它是这样开始的，

因为最初的想法是使用贝宝是

为了创建一个金融服务的聚集地，

这样你就有一个地方可以存放

你所有的金融服务 ices 的需求

将无缝集成并且工作

顺利，然后我们有一个小

功能，即进行电子邮件支付

，每当我们

向某人展示系统时，我们会展示

困难的部分，那就是

嗯 很难整合的金融服务集聚，

没有人感兴趣，然后我们会

向人们展示电子邮件支付，这

实际上很容易，每个人都

感兴趣，所以我认为

从你的环境中获取反馈很重要，

你知道这是你想要的 尽可能地

闭环，所以我们专注

于电子邮件支付，并真正尝试让

这项工作发挥作用，这才是真正让

事情起飞的原因

，但如果我们没有

回应人们所说的话，那么我们

可能 不会成功，

所以重要的是要寻找

类似的东西，并

在你看到它们时专注于它们，并

纠正你先前的假设

，这些假设来自贝宝

其他可能

对人类未来影响最大的问题

真的不是从

什么是最好的赚钱方式的角度来看

未来的人类，所以我认为

我们面临的最大陆地问题是

可持续能源，但

如果我们不解决这个问题，我们将以可持续的方式生产和消耗能源

感官是我们所处的世纪

麻烦

，然后另一个是

地球以外的生命延伸，使

生命多行星，

所以这是

后者的基础是 spacex 的基础力量

，前者是

特斯拉和太阳能城的基础，当我

开始 spacex 我实际上是

最初

我

认为没有人

可能会创办一家火箭公司

所以

我想，如果我们能做一个低成本的

火星任务，一个叫做火星

绿洲的东西，它会用

脱水木头和经验丰富的脱水

营养凝胶降落种子，然后你在

着陆时给它们补水，然后你就会有这么大

的一笔钱

红色背景上的绿色植物，公众倾向于

回应嗯

先例和最高级

，这将是火星上的第一个生命

，据我们所知，生命已经旅行的最远

，我认为这

会让人们非常兴奋

并且因此增加了美国宇航局的

预算，所以很明显

，这样一个任务的财务结果

可能会为零，所以任何比这更好的事情都是有利的

，

所以我实际上去了我去俄罗斯

三度考虑购买

翻新的洲际导弹，因为 那

是最好的交易

，嗯，我可以告诉你

，2000 年去那里很奇怪 2001 年末 2002 年

去俄罗斯火箭部队，

说我想买

两个你 你最大的火箭，

但你可以保留更多的核弹

，

我猜那是 10 年前的事了，所以

他们认为我疯了，但我

确实有钱，所以

在我去了几次俄罗斯之后没关系

结论是

我最初的印象是错误

的，

因为我最初的想法

是没有足够的意愿去探索

和扩展地球之外并拥有火星

基地之类的东西，但我不能

断定这是错误的 嗯，

事实上，特别是

在美国，有很多意愿，

因为美国

是一个由来自世界其他地方的人组成的探索者的国家，

我认为

美国确实

是

人类探索精神的升华，

但如果人们 认为那是不可能的，

或者它将完全破坏

联邦预算，然后他们不

会这样做，所以

在

我第三次旅行之后，我说好吧

，我们真正需要做的是尝试

解决 太空运输问题

，呃，开始了spacex

，呃，这违背了

我交谈过的几乎每个人的建议，

但一个朋友让我坐下来

观看一堆火箭爆炸的视频

让我告诉你他不远

错了，我认为一开始去那里很难，

因为我从来没有

建造过任何实体的东西，我的意思是我小时候建造的

就像小模型火箭

之类的东西，

但是我从来没有一家公司建造

过实体的东西，所以我 我会弄清楚

如何做所有这些事情，并

把合适的团队召集起来

，所以我们做了所有这些，然后

失败了三次，嗯

，这很难，

因为火箭的事情

就是 及格率是百分之

一百，呃

，你不能

在火箭将要进入的真实环境中实际测试火箭

，

所以我认为火箭工程的最佳类比

是

，如果你想创造一个真正的

复杂的s 通常，

您可能无法将软件

作为集成孔运行，也无法

在要运行的计算机上运行它，

但是当您第一次将它们

放在一起并在该计算机上编写时，

它必须运行没有错误

这基本上就是它的本质

所以我们错过

了第一次发射我在发射场

附近捡起火箭碎片的标记

是奇怪的，呃，

但我们在每次

连续飞行中都学到了，呃，并且

能够呃 尤其是在 2008 年的第四次

飞行中，呃到达了轨道，这

也是我们所拥有的最后一点钱，

谢天谢地，呃，那件事发生了，我

认为这句话是魅力的四倍，

所以我们得到了猎鹰一二

轨道

，然后

呃 开始把它放大到

猎鹰 9 号，它的推力比猎鹰 9 号

高出一个数量级，

它大约是一百万磅

的推力

，

我们设法让它进入轨道，然后

呃开发了龙飞船

，它

最近能够 停靠并

从空间站返回地球，

那是一个白色的关节事件，

所以是的，这是一个巨大的解脱，仍然不能

完全相信它真的发生了，

但

除此之外，为了让

人类成为 一个太空

文明最终

是一个多行星物种，

我认为这是非常

重要的，我希望

你们中的一些人会

在 spacex 或其他公司参与其中，

因为它真的只是

其中之一

对于意识的

保存和扩展来说，最重要的事情

值得注意，因为我相信人们都

知道地球已经存在了

40 亿年，

而文明至少在

文字方面已经存在了 10 000 年

，那就是 很慷慨，我想，嗯，

我实际上

对地球的未来相当乐观，所以

我不想

我不想让

人们错了我 印象我认为我们都快

死

了 百分比的机会

仍然值得花费相当多的

努力来确保我们拥有我们已经

支持了你知道行星冗余的生物圈，

如果你愿意的话

，所以我认为我认为这

真的非常重要，为了

做到这一点

有一个突破需要

发生，那就是创建一个快速且

完全可重复使用的火星运输

系统，这是

那些在不可能的边界上

的事情之一，但这就是我们的事情

'将尝试与 spacex 一起实现那里

，然后在 tesla

front 呃，特斯拉的目标实际上

是试图展示电动汽车

可以做什么，因为人们有错误的

印象，我们必须改变人们的

p 对电动汽车的认识是

因为他们过去认为它

是缓慢而

丑陋的东西，并且射程低，就像高尔夫球

车

，这就是为什么我们创造了

特斯拉跑车来证明你可以

快速

有吸引力和远距离

令人惊奇的是，

即使您可以证明某些

东西在纸上有效，并且

计算非常清晰，

直到您真正拥有物理

对象并且他们可以驱动它，它

并没有真正为人们所

接受，所以

如果你

要创建一家公司，我认为这是值得注意的事情，

你应该尝试做的第一件事是创建一个工作

原型，

嗯，你知道一切

在 powerpoint 上看起来都很棒，但是如果你有，如果

你有一个实际的演示文章，

甚至 如果它是原始形式，那

对于说服

人们

更有效我认为我想说的最重要的

一点是，

你们是

他们喜欢的 21 世纪的魔术师 任何阻碍

你想象力的东西都是极限，

嗯，

去那里创造一些魔法谢谢

你

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