I am honored to be here with you today

because let's face it you accomplished

something I never could if I get through

this speech today it'll be the first

time I actually finished something here

at Harvard class of 2017 congratulations

now I'm an unlikely speaker today not

just because I dropped out but because

we're technically in the same generation

we walk this yard less than a decade

apart we studied the same ideas and

slept through the same act 10 lectures

we may have taken different roads to get

here especially if you came all the way

from the quad but today I want to share

what I've learned about our generation

and the world we're all building

together but first these the last couple

of days have brought back a lot of good

memories how many of you remember

exactly where you were and what you were

doing when you got that email telling

you you got into Harvard

[Applause]

I was playing I was playing the video

games civilization and I ran downstairs

and got my dad and for some reason his

first reaction was to video me opening

the email that could have been a really

really sad video but I swear getting

into Harvard is the thing my parents are

most proud of me for my mom is nodding

you'll know what I'm talking about look

guys it's tough to beat this you'll see

when you get out there how many of you

remember your first lecture here at

Harvard mine was computer science 121

with the incredible Harry Lewis Harry I

[Applause]

was running late for class so I throw in

a t-shirt and I didn't realize until

afterwards as I put it on inside out and

backwards my tag was sticking out the

front I couldn't figure out why no one

in class would talk to me except for

this one guy K X Jin he just went with

it we started doing our problem sets

together and now he runs a big part of

Facebook and that class of 2017 is why

you should be nice to people but my best

memory from Harvard is meeting Priscilla

I had just launched this prank website

Facemash and the ad board wanted to see

me

everyone thought I was gonna get kicked

out my parents drove up here to help me

pack my stuff my friends threw me a

going-away party who does that as luck

would have it Priscilla was at that

party with her friends and we met in

line for the bathroom in the pfoho bell

tower and then one must be one of the

all-time most romantic lines I turned to

her and said I'm getting kicked out in

three days so we need to go on to date

quickly actually any of you graduating

today can use that line I'm getting

kicked out today we need to go on a date

fast I didn't end up getting kicked out

I did that to myself Priscilla and I

started dating and you know that movie

made it seem like Facemash was so

important to starting Facebook it wasn't

but without Facemash I never would have

met Priscilla and Priscilla is the most

important person in my life so you could

still say it was the most important

thing I built in my time here

[Applause]

we have all started lifelong friendships

here and some of us even families that's

why I'm so grateful to this place

thanks Harvard today I want to talk

about purpose 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 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 you are graduating at a

time when this is especially important

when our parents graduated that sense of

purpose reliably came from your job your

church your community but today

technology and automation are

eliminating many jobs membership and a

lot of communities has been declining

and a lot of people are feeling

disconnected and depressed and are

trying to fill a void in their lives as

I've traveled around I've sat with

children and juvenile detention and

opioid addicts who've told me that maybe

their lives would have turned out

differently if they just had something

to do and after school program or

somewhere to go I've met factory workers

who know their old jobs aren't coming

back and are just trying to find their

path ahead for our society to keep

moving forward we have a generational

challenge to not only create new job

but create a renewed sense of purpose I

remember that night I launched Facebook

from that little dorm in Kirkland house

I went to Noakes with my friend kayaks

and I remember telling him clearly that

I was excited to help connect the

Harvard community but one day someone

would connect the whole world the thing

is it never even occurred to me that

that someone might be us we were just

college kids we didn't know anything

about that there were all these great

big technology companies with all these

resources and I just assumed one of them

would do it but this idea was so clear

to us that all people want to connect so

we just kept working on it day after day

after day and I know that a lot of you

are gonna have your own stories just

like this a change in the world that

seems so clear that you are sure someone

else is going to do it but they're not

you will but it's not enough to have

that purpose yourself you also have to

create a sense of purpose for others and

I found that out the hard way you see my

hope was never to build a company I

wanted to have an impact and as all

these people started joining us I just

assumed that that's what they wanted to

do too so I never took the time to

explain what it was that I hoped we'd

build a couple years in some big

companies wanted to buy us I didn't want

to sell I wanted to see if we could

connect more people and we were building

the first version of newsfeed at the

time and I thought if we could just

launch this it could change how we all

learn about the world nearly everyone

else wanted to sell without a sense of

higher purpose

this was their startup dream come true

and it tore our company apart after one

particularly tense argument one of my

closest advisors told me if I didn't

agree to sell the company right now I

would regret that decision for the rest

of my life relationships were so afraid

within a year or so every single person

on our management team was gone that was

my hardest time meeting Facebook I

believed in what we were doing but I

felt alone and worse it was my fault I

wondered if I was just wrong an impostor

a 22 year old kid who had no idea how

things actually worked now years later I

understand it that is how things work

when there's no sense of higher purpose

so it's up to all of us to create it so

we can all keep moving forward together

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

generations 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 if I had to know

everything about connecting people

before I got started I never would have

built Facebook 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

oh and you know what else movies get

wrong about innovation no one writes

math formulas on glass okay all right

that's not a thing okay it's really good

to be idealistic

but be prepared to be misunderstood

anyone working on a big vision is gonna

get called crazy even if you end up

right anyone taking on a complex problem

is gonna get blamed for not fully

understanding it even though it's

impossible to know everything up front

anyone taking initiative will always get

criticized for moving too fast because

there's always someone who wants to slow

you down 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 gonna 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 you know today our society

spends more than 50 times as much

treating people were sick as we invest

in finding cures so people get sick in

the first place it makes no sense we can

fix this how about modernizing democracy

so everyone can vote online

and how about personalizing education so

everyone can learn 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 so taking on big meaningful

projects together is the first thing we

can do to create a world where everyone

has a sense of 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 even Beyonce had to make hundreds

of songs to get halo 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 can't 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 look 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 we all know you don't

get successful just by having a good

idea or working hard you get successful

by being lucky - if I had to support my

family growing up instead of having the

time to learn how to code if I didn't

know that I was gonna be fine if

Facebook didn't work out then I wouldn't

be standing up here today and if we're

honest we all know how much luck we've

had to get to this point in our lives

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 we're all gonna

change jobs and roles many times so we

need affordable childcare to get to work

and healthcare that's not tied to just

one employer and we're all gonna 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 gonna do really

well and you should too

that is why Priscilla and I started the

Chan Zuckerberg initiative and committed

our wealth to promoting equal

opportunity these are the values of our

whole generation it was never a question

of if we were gonna do this the only

question was when Millennials are

already one of the most charitable

generations in history in just one year

more than three and four u.s.

Millennials donated to charity and more

than seven and ten raise money for

another one 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

you know when Priscilla graduated from

Harvard she became a teacher and before

she'd do education work with me she told

me that I needed to get my own

experience teaching a class at first I

complained you know I'm kind of busy

running this company but she insisted so

I taught an after-school program at the

local Boys and Girls Club on

entrepreneurship I taught those kids

lessons on product development and

marketing and they taught me what it was

like growing up feeling targeted for

your race and what it's like having a

family member in prison I shared stories

of my time in school and they shared

their hope that one day they would get

to go to college - for five years I've

had dinner with those students every

month one of them even through Priscilla

and me our first baby shower and next

year they're going to college

every one of them first generation and

their families 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

[Applause]

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

now quick show of hands how many of you

here are from another country I now keep

your hands up how many of you are

friends with one of these folks now

we're talking

see we have we have grown up connected

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 to no country can fight

climate change alone or prevent

pandemics progress now requires coming

together not just as cities or nation

but also as a global community 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 well

we don't first feel good about our lives

here at home there's pressure to turn

inwards this is the struggle of our time

the forces of freedom openness and

global community against the forces of

authoritarianism isolationism and

nationalism forces for the flow of

knowledge trade and immigration against

those who would slow them down this is

not a battle of Nations it is a battle

of ideas there are people in every

country for more global connection and

there are good people against it and

this isn't gonna be decided at the UN

either it's gonna happen at the local

level when enough of us feel a sense of

purpose and stability and our own lives

that we can start to open up and care

about everyone else - and the best way

to do that is to start building local

communities right now

[Applause]

we'll get a lot of meaning from our

communities who hears from Elliot house

how about Lowell I know you guys found

community because you literally live

right on top of each other and Mather

[Music]

I'll just leave that there whether our

communities are houses or sports teams

churches or acapella groups they give us

that sense that we were a part of

something bigger that we are not alone

they give us the strength to expand our

horizons and that's why it's so striking

that over the past few decades

membership in all kinds of communities

has declined by as much as one quarter

that's a lot of people who now need to

find a sense of purpose somewhere else

but I know that we can rebuild these

communities and start new ones because

many of you already are

I met Agnes ps-aguié who's graduating

today Agnes Farrari

agnus spent her childhood navigating

conflict zones with human trafficking in

Uganda and now she's trained thousands

of law enforcement officials to keep

communities safe I'm at Kayla Oakley and

Neha Jain graduating today to stand up

guys

Kayla Nia started a nonprofit that

connects people suffering from chronic

illnesses with people in their

communities who are willing to help out

and I met David Rosner who's graduating

from the Kennedy School today David

stand up

David is a former city councilor who

fought to make Mexico City the first

Latin American city to pass marriage

equality even before San Francisco

[Music]

and this is my story to a student in a

dorm connecting one community at a time

and keeping at it until one day we can

connect the whole world 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

class of 2017 you are graduating into a

world that needs purpose and it's up to

you to create it now maybe you're asking

yourself can I really do this well

remember what I told you about that

class I taught at the Boys & Girls Club

one day after class I was talking to my

students about going to college and one

of my top students raised his hand and

said that he wasn't sure he could go to

college because he's undocumented he

wasn't sure if they'd take him

last year I took him out to breakfast

for his birthday and I wanted to get him

a gift so I asked him what he wanted and

he just started talking about struggles

that he saw other students in his class

facing and finally said you know I'd

really just like a book on social

justice I was blown away here is a young

guy who has every reason to be cynical

he wasn't sure if the country he calls

home the only one he's known was gonna

deny him his dream of going to college

but he wasn't feeling sorry for himself

he wasn't even thinking of himself he

has a greater sense of purpose and he's

gonna bring people along with him it

says something about our situation today

that I can't even say his name because I

don't want to put him at risk but if a

high school senior who doesn't know what

the future holds for him can do his part

to move the world forward then we owe it

to the world to do our part to

so before you walk out those gates one

last time

and as we sit here in front of Memorial

Church I'm reminded of a prayer Misha

Barak that I say whenever I face a big

challenge that I sing to my daughter

thinking of her future when I tuck her

in at night and it goes may the source

of strength whose blessed the ones

before us help us find the courage to

make our lives a blessing I hope you

find the courage to make your life a

blessing congratulations class of 2017

good luck out there

[Applause]

{{}}

我很荣幸今天能和你在一起，

因为让我们面对现实吧，

如果我今天通过这次演讲，你完成了我永远做不到的事情

，这将是

我第一次

在哈佛 2017 届的课堂上真正完成一些事情，

现在我不太可能 今天的演讲者

不仅因为我辍学了，而且因为

我们在技术上是同一代人，

我们走在这个院子里相隔不到十年

，我们研究了同样的想法，

睡着了同样的行为 10 场讲座，

我们可能走了不同的路来到

这里，尤其是 如果你

从四边形一路走来，但今天我想分享

我对我们这一代人

以及我们共同建设的世界的了解

，但首先，最近

几天带回了很多美好的

回忆 你们中的一些人清楚地记得

当你收到那封告诉你进入哈佛的电子邮件时你在哪里以及你在做什么

[掌声]

我在玩我在玩电子

游戏文明 我跑

下楼去 t 我爸爸，出于某种原因，他的

第一反应是给我

打开电子邮件，这可能是一个

非常悲伤的视频，但我发誓

进入哈佛是我父母

最为我感到骄傲的事情，因为我妈妈正在点头，

你会的 知道我在说什么，

伙计们，很难打败这个，

当你走出那里时，你会看到有多少人

记得你在

哈佛矿场的第一堂课是计算机科学 121

，与令人难以置信的 Harry Lewis Harry 我

[掌声]

是 上课迟到了，所以我扔了

一件 T 恤，直到

后来我把它从里到

外穿到后面我才意识到我的标签从

前面伸出我不明白为什么

课堂上没有人会说话 我除了

这个人 KX Jin，他刚刚和它一起去

，我们开始一起做我们的问题集

，现在他管理着 Facebook 的很大一部分，

而 2017 年的班级就是为什么

你应该对人友善，但我

在哈佛的最美好的记忆是见面 Priscilla

我刚刚发起了这个恶作剧，我们 网站

Facemash 和广告板想见

我，

每个人都认为我会被

赶出去 我的父母开车来这里帮我

收拾东西 我的朋友们为我举办了

一个离别派对，幸运

的是，普里西拉在那里

和她的朋友们开派对，我们

在 pfoho 钟楼排队去洗手间

，然后肯定是

史上最浪漫的台词之一 我转向

她说我

三天后就会被踢出去，所以我们需要 继续快速约会

实际上你们今天毕业的任何人都

可以使用那条线我今天被

踢出我们需要快速

约会 你知道这部电影

让 Facemash 看起来

对创办 Facebook 非常重要，

但如果没有 Facemash，我永远不会

遇到 Priscilla，而 Priscilla

是我生命中最重要的人，所以你仍然可以

说这是我最重要的

事情 建于我在这里的时间

[Appl ause]

我们都在这里开始了终生的友谊

，我们中的一些人甚至是家庭，这就是

为什么我非常感谢这个地方

感谢哈佛今天我想

谈谈目标，但我不是来给

你一个关于寻找目标的标准开始

我们是千禧一代，我们本能地尝试这样做，

而不是我在这里告诉

你，找到你的目标是

不够的，我们这一代人面临的挑战

是创造一个每个人

都有目标感的世界我最喜欢的

故事之一是当 肯尼迪去参观

美国宇航局太空中心，他看到看门人

拿着扫帚，他问他

在做什么，看门人回答说。

总统，我正在帮助将一个人送上

月球 目的是感觉自己

是比自己更大的事物的一部分，

需要自己，

并且有更好

的目标可以为目标工作，这会创造真正的

幸福，并且您正在毕业

当我们的父母毕业

时，这一点

尤为重要 和沮丧，并

试图填补他们生活中的空白，因为

我到处

旅行 做和放学后的计划或

去别的地方我遇到过工厂工人

，他们知道他们的旧工作不会

回来，只是想找到他们的

路啊he 让我们的社会继续

前进的广告 我们面临着一代人的

挑战，不仅要创造新的工作，

还要创造新的目标

感 记得清楚地告诉他，

我很高兴能帮助连接

哈佛社区，但有一天有人

会连接全世界

有所有这些伟大的

大型科技公司拥有所有这些

资源，我只是假设其中一家

会这样做，但这个想法

对我们来说是如此清晰，以至于所有人都想要联系，所以

我们只是日复一日地继续努力

， 我知道你们中的很多

人都会有自己的故事

就像这样一个世界的变化

似乎如此清晰，以至于你确信其他

人会这样做，但他们不是

你会的，但它是

自己有这个目标还不够，你还必须

为他人创造一种目标感，

我发现，你看到我的希望的艰难方式

永远不是建立一家我

想产生影响的公司，随着所有

这些人开始加入我们 我只是

假设这也是他们想做的，

所以我从来没有花时间

解释我希望我们

在一些大公司建立几年

想要买我们我

不想卖我想要 看看我们是否可以

连接更多的人，当时我们正在

构建第一个版本的新闻源

，我想如果我们可以

推出这个，它可以改变我们

对世界的了解方式，几乎所有

其他人都想在没有更高目标感的情况下出售

这是他们的创业梦想成真

，在一次

特别紧张的争论之后，我们

的公司

分崩离析 ps

在一年左右的时间里非常害怕

，我们管理团队中的每个人都走了，那是

我遇到 Facebook 最困难的一次我

相信我们正在做的事情，但我

感到孤独，更糟糕的是这是我的错我

想知道我是不是错了 冒名顶替

一个 22 岁的孩子，他不知道

几年后

事情实际上是如何运作

的

今天我想谈谈

我们可以创造一个世界的三种方法，

通过重新定义平等，共同承担有意义的大项目，让每个人都有

追求自己目标的自由，并

在世界各地建立社区，从而创造一个每个人都有目标感的

世界。 首先让我们进行

有意义的重大项目，我们这一代

将不得不处理

数以千万计的工作，这些工作被

自动驾驶汽车和卡车等自动化所取代，但我们

有潜力这样做

不仅如此，每一代人都有其

决定性的作品 超过 30

万人致力于将那个人

送上月球，包括看门人 数

百万志愿者

为世界各地的儿童接种脊髓灰质炎疫苗，还有

数百万人建造了胡佛水坝和

其他伟大的项目 现在轮到我们这

代人去做伟大的事情了

我知道也许你在想我不

知道如何建造大坝我不知道

如何让一百万人参与

任何事情让我告诉你一个秘密

不 当他们开始想法时，想法并

没有完全形成，它们只有

在你处理它们时才会变得清晰，

如果我必须在开始之前了解

有关连接人们的一切，那么你只需要

开始我就不会

制作 Facebook 电影和流行音乐 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

了有好想法种子的人f rom

从一开始就开始了

哦，你知道电影

在创新方面还有什么错误没有人

在玻璃上写数学公式 好吧

，这不是一件事 好吧，理想主义真的很好

，

但要做好被误解的准备

远大的愿景会

被认为是疯狂的，即使你最终

是

对的 总是有人想让

你在我们的社会中慢下来 我们通常不会

做大事，因为我们太

害怕犯错误，以至于我们今天忽略了

所有错误的事情 如果

我们什么都不做 现实是我们今天所做的任何事情

都会 未来会有一些问题，

但这并不能阻止我们

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，停止

c 在我们破坏

地球并让数百万人

参与制造和安装

太阳能电池板之前发生重大变化如何治愈所有

疾病并让人们参与通过

要求志愿者分享他们的健康

数据跟踪他们的健康数据并分享

他们的基因组你知道今天我们的社会

花费更多

治疗病人的次数是我们

在寻找治疗方法上投入的资金的 50 倍，因此人们一开始就生病

了 我们

无法解决这个问题 我们可以解决这个问题 如何实现民主现代化，

以便每个人都可以在线投票

，以及个性化教育如何让

每个人都可以学习这些 成就

都触手可及 让

我们以一种让我们社会中的每个人都发挥作用的方式来完成这些成就

让我们做大事

不仅仅是为了取得进步，而且是为了创造

目标 所以一起承担有意义的大

项目是我们可以做的第一件事

一个人人

都有目标感的

世界 第二个是重新定义我们的平等理念，

让每个人都有自由

现在，为了追求自己的目标，我们的许多

父母在整个职业生涯中都有稳定的工作，

但在我们这一代，

无论是

开始自己的项目还是在另一个项目中寻找自己的

角色，我们都有点创业精神，你知道这

很棒，因为我们的文化是

企业家精神是我们创造如此

多进步的方式

当尝试很多新想法很容易时，企业家文化就会蓬勃发展

Facebook 不是

我建立的第一件事 我还建立了聊天系统

和游戏 学习工具和音乐播放器

而且我并不孤单

JK 罗琳在

最终创作和出版《哈利·

波特》之前被拒绝了 12 次，甚至碧昂丝也不得不创作数百

首歌曲才能获得光环 最大的

成功来自拥有

失败的自由 现在我们拥有一定程度的

财富和平等，

当你可以伤害每个人时 当你没有

自由把你的想法

变成一个我们都失去的历史性企业时

，现在我们的社会已经远远

超过了奖励pe 当

他们成功时，我们做的

还不够，以确保每个人都

可以拍摄很多不同的照片，

现在让我们面对现实吧，

当我离开

这里并在 10 年内赚到数十亿美元时，我们的系统出了问题，

而 数以百万计的学生

甚至连贷款都付不起，

更不用说创业

了 钱，但我知道有

太多人没有

机会追求自己的梦想，因为

如果他们失败了，他们没有缓冲可以依靠

很难，你会

因为幸运而成功——如果我必须支持我的

家人成长，而不是有

时间学习如何编码

今天不站在这里，如果我们很

荣幸 我们都知道我们有多少运气

才能在我们的生活中走到这一步，

每一代人都扩大了

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

是我们这一代人的时候了 要定义

新的社会契约，

我们应该建立一个衡量进步的社会，

不仅通过 GDP 等经济指标，

而且通过我们中有多少人有

我们认为有意义的角色来衡量我们应该

探索普遍基本收入等想法

，以确保每个人都有

缓冲 尝试新的想法 我们都会

多次更换工作和角色，所以我们

需要负担得起的托儿服务才能上班

和医疗保健，而不仅仅依赖于

一个雇主，我们都会

犯错误，所以我们需要一个

不那么关注锁定的社会

当我们这样做时，我们会受到侮辱，并且随着我们的

技术不断发展，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，为每个人提供

追求目标不会

是自由的，像我这样的人应该为此付出代价

，你们中的很多人会做得

很好，你也应该这样做

，这就是为什么普里西拉和我发起了

陈·扎克伯格倡议，并将

我们的财富用于促进平等

机会 这些是我们

这一代人的价值观 从来都不是

我们是否要这样做的问题 唯一的

问题是千禧一代

已经成为历史上最慈善的

世代之一

千禧一代捐赠给慈善机构，

超过 7 和 10 人为另一个人筹集资金，

但这不仅仅是

给钱，你也可以给时间，

我向你保证，如果你只需要一个小时

到一周，这就是帮助

某人和 现在帮助他们发挥

潜力 也许你认为

那是很多时间 我不确定

我是否有那么多时间

和我一起工作，她告诉

我，我首先需要获得自己

的教学经验 在

创业方面，我教那些孩子们

关于产品开发和

营销的课程，他们教

我长大后感觉

自己的种族有针对性，有

家人在监狱里是什么感觉 我分享

了我在学校和 他们分享了

他们的希望，希望有一天他们

能上大学——五年来，我

每个月都和这些学生共进晚餐，

其中一个甚至通过普里西拉

和我的第一次婴儿洗澡，

明年他们每个月都要上大学

他们中的一个第一代和

他们的家人我们都可以抽出时间

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且

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是

更好

[掌声]

目标不仅仅来自工作

我们可以为每个人创造目标感的第三种方式

是建立社区，在我们这

一代，当我们说为

每个人提供目标时，我们的意思是世界上的每个人

现在快速展示 举手，你们中

有多少人来自另一个国家

世界各地的千禧一代

问什么最能定义我们的

身份最流行的答案不是

国籍种族或宗教

它是世界公民这很重要

每一代人都扩大了

我们认为我们中的一员的人的圈子

现在包括

整个世界，我们都明白

人类历史的伟大弧线转向

越来越

多的人从部落到城市再到国家聚集在一起，

以实现我们靠自己无法实现的事情

我们得到了我们最大的

机会现在是全球性的我们可以

成为 一代人结束贫困，

结束疾病，我们明白，我们

最大的挑战需要全球

应对，没有一个国家可以

单独应对气候变化或预防

流行病。现在，

不仅作为城市或国家，

而且作为一个全球社区，我们需要团结起来，但我们

生活在一个 不稳定的时代 全世界都有

人被全球化甩在后面

，很难

关心其他人 呃 地方 很好

我们首先对我们在家里的生活感觉不好

有压力要向内转

这是我们时代

的斗争 自由开放和

全球社区的力量 反对

独裁主义力量 孤立主义和

民族主义力量

知识流动 贸易和移民反对

那些会让他们放慢脚步的人 这

不是一场国家之战 这是一场思想之战

每个国家都有人

寻求更多的全球联系，

也有好人反对它，

这不会在会议上决定 联合国

要么在地方层面发生，

当我们足够多的人感到

目标感和稳定感以及我们自己的生活时

，我们可以开始开放并

关心其他人——而

做到这一点的最好方法是开始建立当地

社区 现在

[掌声]

我们将从我们的社区中获得很多意义，

他们从 Elliot House 那里

听到 Lowell 怎么样，我知道你们找到了

社区，因为你们确实

生活在 t 彼此和马瑟

[音乐]

我会留下，无论我们的

社区是房屋还是运动队

教堂或无伴奏合唱团，他们给我们

的感觉是，我们是更大的一部分

，我们并不孤单，

他们给了我们 扩大我们

视野的力量，这就是

为什么在过去的几十年里

，各种社区的会员

人数减少了多达四分之一

，这就是很多人现在需要在

其他地方找到目标感的原因，

但我知道 我们可以重建这些

社区并开始新的社区 因为

你们中的许多人已经是

社区安全 我在 Kayla Oakley 和

Neha Jain 今天毕业以站起来

凯拉尼亚创办了一个非营利组织，

将患有慢性病的人联系

起来 与他们

社区中愿意提供帮助的人交谈

，我遇到了今天从肯尼迪学校毕业的大卫罗斯纳 大卫

站起来

大卫是一名前市议员，他

曾努力让墨西哥城成为第一个

通过婚姻

平等的拉丁美洲城市 旧金山

[音乐

] 这是我给一个宿舍里的学生的故事

我们是否建立更多联系是否

获得最大机会的斗争

归结为你建立

社区和创造一个

每个人都有目标感

的世界的能力 2017 年你毕业进入

一个需要目标的世界 给

你现在创造它也许你在问

自己我真的能做到这一点吗

记得我告诉过你关于

我在男孩女孩 C 课上教的那堂课

一天下课后，我和我的

学生谈论上大学的事情

，我的一个顶尖学生举手

说他不确定他能不能上

大学，因为他没有证件，

他不确定他们是否会接受 他

去年生日我带他出去吃

早餐，我想给他买

礼物，所以我问他想要什么，

他开始谈论

他看到班上其他学生

面临的困难，最后说你知道我 d

真的就像一本关于社会正义的书

我在这里被震撼到是一个

完全有理由愤世嫉俗的年轻人

他不确定

这个他称之为家的国家是否会

剥夺他的梦想 大学，

但他并没有为自己感到难过

他甚至没有想到自己他

有更大的目标感

他会带着人们一起来这

说明了我们今天的情况

我什至不能说出他的名字因为 我

不想让他处于危险之中，但如果

高中生不知道他的未来会

怎样 在纪念教堂前，

我想起了 Misha Barak 的一个祈祷词

，每当我面临重大

挑战时，我都会唱给我的女儿唱歌，

当我晚上给她盖上床时，她会想到她的未来

，这可能

是力量的源泉

前面的人帮助我们找到勇气

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