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'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says -- 日本語

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'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says -- In italiano

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says



Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Il 12 giugno 2005, in occasione della cerimonia annuale per il conferimento delle lauree a Stanford, Steve Jobs ha pronunciato questo bellissimo discorso. Qui troverete il video (preso da YouTube) e il testo completo in italiano (traduzione di Fabiusli di italiamac.it) e in inglese. Non aggiungo altro. Spero solo che possa ispirare voi quanto ha ispirato me.

Alex

PS: Un grazie al mio Cuginetto che me l'ha segnalato!


ITALIANO:

Sono onorato di essere qui con voi oggi, nel giorno della vostra laurea presso una delle migliori università del mondo. A dir la verità, io non mi sono mai laureato. Questa è l'occasione in cui mi sono di più avvicinato ad un conferimento di titolo accademico. Oggi voglio raccontarvi tre episodi della mia vita. Tutto qui, nulla di speciale. Solo tre storie.

La prima storia parla di “unire i puntini”.

Ho abbandonato gli studi al Reed College dopo sei mesi, ma vi sono rimasto come imbucato per altri diciotto mesi, prima di lasciarlo definitivamente. Allora perchè ho smesso?

Tutto è cominciato prima che io nascessi. La mia madre biologica era laureanda ma ragazza-madre, decise perciò di darmi in adozione. Desiderava ardentemente che io fossi adottato da laureati, così tutto fu approntato affinché ciò avvenisse alla mia nascita da parte di un avvocato e di sua moglie. All'ultimo minuto, appena nato, questi ultimi decisero che avrebbero preferito una femminuccia. Così quelli che poi sarebbero diventati i miei “veri” genitori, che allora si trovavano in una lista d'attesa per l'adozione, furono chiamati nel bel mezzo della notte e venne chiesto loro: “Abbiamo un bimbo, un maschietto, ‘non previsto'; volete adottarlo?”. Risposero: “Certamente”. La mia madre biologica venne a sapere successivamente che mia mamma non aveva mai ottenuto la laurea e che mio padre non si era mai diplomato: per questo si rifiutò di firmare i documenti definitivi per l'adozione. Tornò sulla sua decisione solo qualche mese dopo, quando i miei genitori adottivi le promisero che un giorno sarei andato all'università.

Infine, diciassette anni dopo ci andai. Ingenuamente scelsi un'università che era costosa quanto Stanford, così tutti i risparmi dei miei genitori sarebbero stati spesi per la mia istruzione accademica. Dopo sei mesi, non riuscivo a comprenderne il valore: non avevo idea di cosa avrei fatto nella mia vita e non avevo idea di come l'università mi avrebbe aiutato a scoprirlo. Inoltre, come ho detto, stavo spendendo i soldi che i miei genitori avevano risparmiato per tutta la vita, così decisi di abbandonare, avendo fiducia che tutto sarebbe andato bene lo stesso. OK, ero piuttosto terrorizzato all'epoca, ma guardandomi indietro credo sia stata una delle migliori decisioni che abbia mai preso. Nell'istante in cui abbandonai, potei smettere di assistere alle lezioni obbligatorie e cominciai a seguire quelle che mi sembravano interessanti.

Non era tutto così romantico al tempo. Non avevo una stanza nel dormitorio, perciò dormivo sul pavimento delle camere dei miei amici; portavo indietro i vuoti delle bottiglie di coca-cola per raccogliere quei cinque cent di deposito che mi avrebbero permesso di comprarmi da mangiare; ogni domenica camminavo per sette miglia attraverso la città per avere l'unico pasto decente nella settimana presso il tempio Hare Krishna. Ma mi piaceva. Gran parte delle cose che trovai sulla mia strada per caso o grazie all'intuizione in quel periodo si sono rivelate inestimabili più avanti. Lasciate che vi faccia un esempio:

il Reed College a quel tempo offriva probabilmente i migliori corsi di calligrafia del paese. Nel campus ogni poster, ogni etichetta su ogni cassetto, erano scritti in splendida calligrafia. Siccome avevo abbandonato i miei studi ‘ufficiali'e pertanto non dovevo seguire le classi da piano studi, decisi di seguire un corso di calligrafia per imparare come riprodurre quanto di bello visto là attorno. Ho imparato dei caratteri serif e sans serif, a come variare la spaziatura tra differenti combinazioni di lettere, e che cosa rende la migliore tipografia così grande. Era bellissimo, antico e così artisticamente delicato che la scienza non avrebbe potuto ‘catturarlo', e trovavo ciò affascinante.

Nulla di tutto questo sembrava avere speranza di applicazione pratica nella mia vita, ma dieci anni dopo, quando stavamo progettando il primo computer Machintosh, mi tornò utile. Progettammo così il Mac: era il primo computer dalla bella tipografia. Se non avessi abbandonato gli studi, il Mac non avrebbe avuto multipli caratteri e font spazialmente proporzionate. E se Windows non avesse copiato il Mac, nessun personal computer ora le avrebbe. Se non avessi abbandonato, se non fossi incappato in quel corso di calligrafia, i computer oggi non avrebbero quella splendida tipografia che ora possiedono. Certamente non era possibile all'epoca ‘unire i puntini'e avere un quadro di cosa sarebbe successo, ma tutto diventò molto chiaro guardandosi alle spalle dieci anni dopo.

Vi ripeto, non potete sperare di unire i puntini guardando avanti, potete farlo solo guardandovi alle spalle: dovete quindi avere fiducia che, nel futuro, i puntini che ora vi paiono senza senso possano in qualche modo unirsi nel futuro. Dovete credere in qualcosa: il vostro ombelico, il vostro karma, la vostra vita, il vostro destino, chiamatelo come volete... questo approccio non mi ha mai lasciato a terra, e ha fatto la differenza nella mia vita.

La mia seconda storia parla di amore e di perdita.

Fui molto fortunato - ho trovato cosa mi piacesse fare nella vita piuttosto in fretta. Io e Woz fondammo la Apple nel garage dei miei genitori quando avevo appena vent'anni. Abbiamo lavorato duro, e in dieci anni Apple è cresciuta da noi due soli in un garage sino ad una compagnia da due miliardi di dollari con oltre quattromila dipendenti. Avevamo appena rilasciato la nostra migliore creazione - il Macintosh - un anno prima, e avevo appena compiuto trent'anni... quando venni licenziato. Come può una persona essere licenziata da una Società che ha fondato? Beh, quando Apple si sviluppò assumemmo una persona - che pensavamo fosse di grande talento - per dirigere la compagnia con me, e per il primo anno le cose andarono bene. In seguito però le nostre visioni sul futuro cominciarono a divergere finché non ci scontrammo. Quando successe, il nostro Consiglio di Amministrazione si schierò con lui. Così a trent'anni ero a spasso. E in maniera plateale. Ciò che aveva focalizzato la mia intera vita adulta non c'era più, e tutto questo fu devastante.

Non avevo la benché minima idea di cosa avrei fatto, per qualche mese. Sentivo di aver tradito la precedente generazione di imprenditori, che avevo lasciato cadere il testimone che mi era stato passato. Mi incontrai con David Packard e Bob Noyce e provai a scusarmi per aver mandato all'aria tutto così malamente: era stato un vero fallimento pubblico, e arrivai addirittura a pensare di andarmene dalla Silicon Valley. Ma qualcosa cominciò a farsi strada dentro me: amavo ancora quello che avevo fatto, e ciò che era successo alla Apple non aveva cambiato questo di un nulla. Ero stato rifiutato, ma ero ancora innamorato. Così decisi di ricominciare.

Non potevo accorgermene allora, ma venne fuori che essere licenziato dalla Apple era la cosa migliore che mi sarebbe potuta capitare. La pesantezza del successo fu sostituita dalla soavità di essere di nuovo un iniziatore, mi rese libero di entrare in uno dei periodi più creativi della mia vita.

Nei cinque anni successivi fondai una Società chiamata NeXT, un'altra chiamata Pixar, e mi innamorai di una splendida ragazza che sarebbe diventata mia moglie. La Pixar produsse il primo film di animazione interamente creato al computer, Toy Story, ed è ora lo studio di animazione di maggior successo nel mondo. In una mirabile successione di accadimenti, Apple comprò NeXT, ritornai in Apple e la tecnologia che sviluppammo alla NeXT è nel cuore dell'attuale rinascimento di Apple. E io e Laurene abbiamo una splendida famiglia insieme.

Sono abbastanza sicuro che niente di tutto questo mi sarebbe accaduto se non fossi stato licenziato dalla Apple. Fu una medicina con un saporaccio, ma presumo che ‘il paziente'ne avesse bisogno. Ogni tanto la vita vi colpisce sulla testa con un mattone. Non perdete la fiducia, però. Sono convinto che l'unica cosa che mi ha aiutato ad andare avanti sia stato l'amore per ciò che facevo. Dovete trovare le vostre passioni, e questo è vero tanto per il/la vostro/a findanzato/a che per il vostro lavoro. Il vostro lavoro occuperà una parte rilevante delle vostre vite, e l'unico modo per esserne davvero soddisfatti sarà fare un gran bel lavoro. E l'unico modo di fare un gran bel lavoro è amare quello che fate. Se non avete ancora trovato ciò che fa per voi, continuate a cercare, non fermatevi, come capita per le faccende di cuore, saprete di averlo trovato non appena ce l'avrete davanti. E, come le grandi storie d'amore, diventerà sempre meglio col passare degli anni. Quindi continuate a cercare finché non lo trovate. Non accontentatevi.

La mia terza storia parla della morte.

Quando avevo diciassette anni, ho letto una citazione che recitava: “Se vivi ogni giorno come se fosse l'ultimo, uno di questi c'avrai azzeccato”. Mi fece una gran impressione, e da quel momento, per i successivi trentatrè anni, mi sono guardato allo specchio ogni giorno e mi sono chiesto: “Se oggi fosse l'ultimo giorno della mia vita, vorrei fare quello che sto per fare oggi?”. E ogni volta che la risposta era “No” per troppi giorni consecutivi, sapevo di dover cambiare qualcosa.

Ricordare che sarei morto presto è stato lo strumento più utile che abbia mai trovato per aiutarmi nel fare le scelte importanti nella vita. Perché quasi tutto - tutte le aspettative esteriori, l'orgoglio, la paura e l'imbarazzo per il fallimento - sono cose che scivolano via di fronte alla morte, lasciando solamente ciò che è davvero importante. Ricordarvi che state per morire è il miglior modo per evitare la trappola rappresentata dalla convinzione che abbiate qualcosa da perdere. Siete già nudi. Non c'è ragione perché non seguiate il vostro cuore.

Un anno fa mi è stato diagnosticato un cancro. Effettuai una scansione alle sette e trenta del mattino, e mostrava chiaramente un tumore nel mio pancreas. Fino ad allora non sapevo nemmeno cosa fosse un pancreas. I dottori mi dissero che con ogni probabilità era un tipo di cancro incurabile, e avevo un'aspettativa di vita non superiore ai tre-sei mesi. Il mio dottore mi consigliò di tornare a casa ‘a sistemare i miei affari', che è un modo per i medici di dirti di prepararti a morire. Significa che devi cercare di dire ai tuoi figli tutto quello che avresti potuto nei successivi dieci anni in pochi mesi. Significa che devi fare in modo che tutto sia a posto, così da rendere la cosa più semplice per la tua famiglia. Significa che devi pronunciare i tuoi ‘addio'.

Ho vissuto con quella spada di Damocle per tutto il giorno. In seguito quella sera ho fatto una biopsia, dove mi infilarono un tubicino nella gola, attraverso il mio stomaco fin dentro l'intestino, inserirono una sonda nel pancreas e prelevarono alcune cellule del tumore. Ero in anestesia totale, ma mia moglie, che era lì, mi disse che quando videro le cellule al microscopio, i dottori cominciarono a gridare perché venne fuori che si trattava una forma molto rara di cancro curabile attraverso la chirurgia. Così mi sono operato e ora sto bene.

Questa è stata la volta in cui mi sono trovato più vicino alla morte, e spero lo sia per molti decenni ancora. Essendoci passato, posso dirvi ora qualcosa con maggiore certezza rispetto a quando la morte per me era solo un puro concetto intellettuale:

Nessuno vuole morire. Anche le persone che desiderano andare in paradiso non vogliono morire per andarci. E nonostante tutto la morte rappresenta l'unica destinazione che noi tutti condividiamo, nessuno è mai sfuggito ad essa. Questo perché è come dovrebbe essere: la Morte è la migliore invenzione della Vita. E' l'agente di cambio della Vita: fa piazza pulita del vecchio per aprire la strada al nuovo. Ora come ora ‘il nuovo' siete voi, ma un giorno non troppo lontano da oggi, gradualmente diventerete ‘il vecchio'e sarete messi da parte. Mi dispiace essere così drammatico, ma è pressappoco la verità.

Il vostro tempo è limitato, perciò non sprecatelo vivendo la vita di qualcun'altro. Non rimanete intrappolati nei dogmi, che vi porteranno a vivere secondo il pensiero di altre persone. Non lasciate che il rumore delle opinioni altrui zittisca la vostra voce interiore. E, ancora più importante, abbiate il coraggio di seguire il vostro cuore e la vostra intuizione: loro vi guideranno in qualche modo nel conoscere cosa veramente vorrete diventare. Tutto il resto è secondario.

Quando ero giovane, c'era una pubblicazione splendida che si chiamava The Whole Earth Catalog, che è stata una delle bibbie della mia generazione. Fu creata da Steward Brand, non molto distante da qui, a Menlo Park, e costui apportò ad essa il suo senso poetico della vita. Era la fine degli anni Sessanta, prima dei personal computer, ed era fatto tutto con le macchine da scrivere, le forbici e le fotocamere polaroid: era una specie di Google formato volume, trentacinque anni prima che Google venisse fuori. Era idelista, e pieno di concetti chiari e nozioni speciali.

Steward e il suo team pubblicarono diversi numeri di The Whole Earth Catalog e, quando concluse il suo tempo, fecero uscire il numero finale. Era la metà degli anni Settanta e io avevo pressappoco la vostra età. Nella quarta di copertina del numero finale c'era una fotografia di una strada di campagna nel primo mattino, del tipo che potete trovare facendo autostop se siete dei tipi così avventurosi. Sotto, le seguenti parole: “Siate affamati. Siate folli”. Era il loro addio. “Siate affamati. Siate folli”. Io ho sperato sempre questo per me. Ora, nel giorno della vostra laurea, pronti nel cominciare una nuova avventura, auguro questo a voi.

Siate affamati. Siate folli.


07-01-07




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'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says -- En español

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Steve Jobs 1º Parte Discurso con Subtítulos en Español
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'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says -- Indonesia




"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"


FEUI2001familia · anak - anak FEUI angkatan 2001

Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:36 am

yopi sofiana


Pidato Steve Job di Acara Wisuda Stanford University

Saya merasa bangga di tengah-tengah Anda sekarang, yang akan segera lulus dari salah satu universitas terbaik di dunia. Saya tidak pernah selesai kuliah. Sejujurnya, baru saat inilah saya merasakan suasana wisuda. Hari ini saya akan menyampaikan tiga cerita pengalaman hidup saya. Ya, tidak perlu banyak. Cukup tiga.

Cerita Pertama: Menghubungkan Titik-Titik

Saya drop out (DO) dari Reed College setelah semester pertama, namun saya tetap berkutat di situ sampai 18 bulan kemudian, sebelum betul-betul putus kuliah. Mengapa saya DO?

Kisahnya dimulai sebelum saya lahir. Ibu kandung saya adalah mahasiswi belia yang hamil karena "kecelakaan" dan memberikan saya kepada seseorang untuk diadopsi. Dia bertekad bahwa saya harus diadopsi oleh keluarga sarjana, maka saya pun diperjanjikan untuk dipungut anak semenjak lahir oleh seorang pengacara dan istrinya. Sialnya, begitu saya lahir, tiba-tiba mereka berubah pikiran karena ingin bayi perempuan. Maka orang tua saya sekarang, yang ada di daftar urut berikutnya, mendapatkan telepon larut malam dari seseorang: "kami punya bayi laki-laki yang batal dipungut; apakah Anda berminat? Mereka menjawab: "Tentu saja." Ibu kandung saya lalu mengetahui bahwa ibu angkat saya tidak pernah lulus kuliah dan ayah angkat saya bahkan tidak tamat SMA. Dia menolak menandatangani perjanjian adopsi. Sikapnya baru melunak beberapa bulan kemudian, setelah orang tua saya berjanji akan menyekolahkan saya sampai perguruan tinggi.

Dan, 17 tahun kemudian saya betul-betul kuliah. Namun, dengan naifnya saya memilih universitas yang hampir sama mahalnya dengan Stanford, sehingga seluruh tabungan orang tua saya- yang hanya pegawai rendahan- habis untuk biaya kuliah. Setelah enam bulan, saya tidak melihat manfaatnya. Saya tidak tahu apa yang harus saya lakukan dalam hidup saya dan bagaimana kuliah akan membantu saya menemukannya. Saya sudah menghabiskan seluruh tabungan yang dikumpulkan orang tua saya seumur hidup mereka. Maka, saya pun memutuskan berhenti kuliah, yakin bahwa itu yang terbaik. Saat itu rasanya menakutkan, namun sekarang saya menganggapnya sebagai keputusan terbaik yang pernah saya ambil.

Begitu DO, saya langsung berhenti mengambil kelas wajib yang tidak saya minati dan mulai mengikuti perkuliahan yang saya sukai.

Masa-masa itu tidak selalu menyenangkan. Saya tidak punya kamar kos sehingga nebeng tidur di lantai kamar teman-teman saya. Saya mengembalikan botol Coca-Cola agar dapat pengembalian 5 sen untuk membeli makanan. Saya berjalan 7 mil melintasi kota setiap Minggu malam untuk mendapat makanan enak di biara Hare Krishna. Saya menikmatinya. Dan banyak yang saya temui saat itu karena mengikuti rasa ingin tahu dan intuisi, ternyata kemudian sangat berharga. Saya beri Anda satu contoh:

Reed College mungkin waktu itu adalah yang terbaik di AS dalam hal kaligrafi. Di seluruh penjuru kampus, setiap poster, label, dan petunjuk ditulis tangan dengan sangat indahnya. Karena sudah DO, saya tidak harus mengikuti perkuliahan normal. Saya memutuskan mengikuti kelas kaligrafi guna mempelajarinya. Saya belajar jenis-jenis huruf serif dan san serif, membuat variasi spasi antar kombinasi kata dan kiat membuat tipografi yang hebat. Semua itu merupakan kombinasi cita rasa keindahan, sejarah dan seni yang tidak dapat ditangkap melalui sains. Sangat menakjubkan.

Saat itu sama sekali tidak terlihat manfaat kaligrafi bagi kehidupan saya. Namun sepuluh tahun kemudian, ketika kami mendisain komputer Macintosh yang pertama, ilmu itu sangat bermanfaat. Mac adalah komputer pertama yang bertipografi cantik. Seandainya saya tidak DO dan mengambil kelas kaligrafi, Mac tidak akan memiliki sedemikian banyak huruf yang beragam bentuk dan proporsinya. Dan karena Windows menjiplak Mac, maka tidak ada PC yang seperti itu. Andaikata saya tidak DO, saya tidak berkesempatan mengambil kelas kaligrafi, dan PC tidak memiliki tipografi yang indah. Tentu saja, tidak mungkin merangkai cerita seperti itu sewaktu saya masih kuliah. Namun, sepuluh tahun kemudian segala sesuatunya menjadi gamblang.

Sekali lagi, Anda tidak akan dapat merangkai titik dengan melihat ke depan; Anda hanya bisa melakukannya dengan merenung ke belakang. Jadi, Anda harus percaya bahwa titik-titik Anda bagaimana pun akan terangkai di masa mendatang. Anda harus percaya dengan intuisi, takdir, jalan hidup, karma Anda, atau istilah apa pun lainnya. Pendekatan ini efektif dan membuat banyak perbedaan dalam kehidupan saya.

Cerita Kedua Saya: Cinta dan Kehilangan

Saya beruntung karena tahu apa yang saya sukai sejak masih muda. Woz dan saya mengawali Apple di garasi orang tua saya ketika saya berumur 20 tahun. Kami bekerja keras dan dalam 10 tahun Apple berkembang dari hanya kami berdua menjadi perusahaan 2 milyar dolar dengan 4000 karyawan. Kami baru meluncurkan produk terbaik kami-Macintosh- satu tahun sebelumnya, dan saya baru menginjak usia 30. Dan saya dipecat. Bagaimana mungkin Anda dipecat oleh perusahaan yang Anda dirikan? Yah, itulah yang terjadi. Seiring pertumbuhan Apple, kami merekrut orang yang saya pikir sangat berkompeten untuk menjalankan perusahaan bersama saya. Dalam satu tahun pertama,semua berjalan lancar. Namun, kemudian muncul perbedaan dalam visi kami mengenai masa depan dan kami sulit disatukan. Komisaris ternyata berpihak padanya. Demikianlah, di usia 30 saya tertendang. Beritanya ada di mana-mana. Apa yang menjadi fokus sepanjang masa dewasa saya, tiba-tiba sirna. Sungguh menyakitkan.

Dalam beberapa bulan kemudian, saya tidak tahu apa yang harus saya lakukan. Saya merasa telah mengecewakan banyak wirausahawan generasi sebelumnya -saya gagal mengambil kesempatan. Saya bertemu dengan David Packard dan Bob Noyce dan meminta maaf atas keterpurukan saya. Saya menjadi tokoh publik yang gagal, dan bahkan berpikir untuk lari dari Silicon Valley. Namun, sedikit demi sedikit semangat timbul kembali- saya masih menyukai pekerjaan saya. Apa yang terjadi di Apple sedikit pun tidak mengubah saya. Saya telah ditolak, namun saya tetap cinta. Maka, saya putuskan untuk mulai lagi dari awal.

Waktu itu saya tidak melihatnya, namun belakangan baru saya sadari bahwa dipecat dari Apple adalah kejadian terbaik yang menimpa saya. Beban berat sebagai orang sukses tergantikan oleh keleluasaan sebagai pemula, segala sesuatunya lebih tidak jelas. Hal itu mengantarkan saya pada periode paling kreatif dalam hidup saya.

Dalam lima tahun berikutnya, saya mendirikan perusahaan bernama NeXT, lalu Pixar, dan jatuh cinta dengan wanita istimewa yang kemudian menjadi istri saya. Pixar bertumbuh menjadi perusahaan yang menciptakan film animasi komputer pertama, Toy Story, dan sekarang merupakan studio animasi paling sukses di dunia. Melalui rangkaian peristiwa yang menakjubkan, Apple membeli NeXT, dan saya kembali lagi ke Apple, dan teknologi yang kami kembangkan di NeXT menjadi jantung bagi kebangkitan kembali Apple. Dan, Laurene dan saya memiliki keluarga yang luar biasa.

Saya yakin takdir di atas tidak terjadi bila saya tidak dipecat dari Apple. Obatnya memang pahit, namun sebagai pasien saya memerlukannya. Kadangkala kehidupan menimpakan batu ke kepala Anda. Jangan kehilangan kepercayaan. Saya yakin bahwa satu-satunya yang membuat saya terus berusaha adalah karena saya menyukai apa yang saya lakukan. Anda harus menemukan apa yang Anda sukai. Itu berlaku baik untuk pekerjaan maupun pasangan hidup Anda. Pekerjaan Anda akan menghabiskan sebagian besar hidup Anda, dan kepuasan sejati hanya dapat diraih dengan mengerjakan sesuatu yang hebat. Dan Anda hanya bisa hebat bila mengerjakan apa yang Anda sukai. Bila Anda belum menemukannya, teruslah mencari. Jangan menyerah. Hati Anda akan mengatakan bila Anda telah menemukannya. Sebagaimana halnya dengan hubungan hebat lainnya, semakin lama- semakin mesra Anda dengannya. Jadi, teruslah mencari sampai ketemu. Jangan berhenti.

Cerita Ketiga Saya: Kematian

Ketika saya berumur 17, saya membaca ungkapan yang kurang lebih berbunyi: "Bila kamu menjalani hidup seolah-olah hari itu adalah hari terakhirmu, maka suatu hari kamu akan benar." Ungkapan itu membekas dalam diri saya, dan semenjak saat itu, selama 33 tahun terakhir, saya selalu melihat ke cermin setiap pagi dan bertanya kepada diri sendiri: "Bila ini adalah hari terakhir saya, apakah saya tetap melakukan apa yang akan saya lakukan hari ini?" Bila jawabannya selalu "tidak" dalam beberapa hari berturut-turut, saya tahu saya harus berubah.

Mengingat bahwa saya akan segera mati adalah kiat penting yang saya temukan untuk membantu membuat keputusan besar. Karena hampir segala sesuatu-semua harapan eksternal, kebanggaan, takhut malu atau gagal-tidak lagi bermanfaat saat menghadapi kematian. Hanya yang hakiki yang tetap ada. Mengingat kematian adalah cara terbaik yang saya tahu untuk menghindari jebakan berpikir bahwa Anda akan kehilangan sesuatu. Anda tidak memiliki apa-apa. Sama sekali tidak ada alasan untuk tidak mengikuti kata hati Anda.

Sekitar setahun yang lalu saya didiagnosis mengidap kanker. Saya menjalani scan pukul 7:30 pagi dan hasilnya jelas menunjukkan saya memiliki tumor pankreas. Saya bahkan tidak tahu apa itu pankreas. Para dokter mengatakan kepada saya bahwa hampir pasti jenisnya adalah yang tidak dapat diobati. Harapan hidup saya tidak lebih dari 3-6 bulan. Dokter menyarankan saya pulang ke rumah dan membereskan segala sesuatunya, yang merupakan sinyal dokter agar saya bersiap mati. Artinya, Anda harus menyampaikan kepada anak Anda dalam beberapa menit segala hal yang Anda rencanakan dalam sepuluh tahun mendatang. Artinya, memastikan bahwa segalanya diatur agar mudah bagi keluarga Anda. Artinya, Anda harus mengucapkan selamat tinggal.

Sepanjang hari itu saya menjalani hidup berdasarkan diagnosis tersebut. Malam harinya, mereka memasukkan endoskopi ke tenggorokan, lalu ke perut dan lambung, memasukkan jarum ke pankreas saya dan mengambil beberapa sel tumor. Saya dibius, namun istri saya, yang ada di sana, mengatakan bahwa ketika melihat selnya di bawah mikroskop, para dokter menangis mengetahui bahwa jenisnya adalah kanker pankreas yang sangat jarang, namun bisa diatasi dengan operasi. Saya dioperasi dan sehat sampai sekarang.

Itu adalah rekor terdekat saya dengan kematian dan berharap terus begitu hingga beberapa dekade lagi. Setelah melalui pengalaman tersebut, sekarang saya bisa katakan dengan yakin kepada Anda bahwa menurut konsep pikiran, kematian adalah hal yang berguna:

Tidak ada orang yang ingin mati. Bahkan orang yang ingin masuk surga pun tidak ingin mati dulu untuk mencapainya. Namun, kematian pasti menghampiri kita. Tidak ada yang bisa mengelak. Dan, memang harus demikian, karena kematian adalah buah terbaik dari kehidupan. Kematian membuat hidup berputar. Dengannya maka yang tua menyingkir untuk digantikan yang muda. Maaf bila terlalu dramatis menyampaikannya, namun memang begitu.

Waktu Anda terbatas, jadi jangan sia-siakan dengan menjalani hidup orang lain. Jangan terperangkap dengan dogma-yaitu hidup bersandar pada hasil pemikiran orang lain. Jangan biarkan omongan orang menulikan Anda sehingga tidak mendengar kata hati Anda. Dan yang terpenting, miliki keberanian untuk mengikuti kata hati dan intuisi Anda, maka Anda pun akan sampai pada apa yang Anda inginkan. Semua hal lainnya hanya nomor dua.

Ketika saya masih muda, ada satu penerbitan hebat yang bernama "The Whole Earth Catalog", yang menjadi salah satu buku pintar generasi saya. Buku itu diciptakan oleh seorang bernama Stewart Brand yang tinggal tidak jauh dari sini di Menlo Park, dan dia membuatnya sedemikian menarik dengan sentuhan puitisnya. Waktu itu akhir 1960-an, sebelum era komputer dan desktop publishing, jadi semuanya dibuat dengan mesin tik, gunting, dan kamera polaroid. Mungkin seperti Google dalam bentuk kertas, 35 tahun sebelum kelahiran Google: isinya padat dengan tips-tips ideal dan ungkapan-ungkapan hebat.

Stewart dan timnya sempat menerbitkan beberapa edisi "The Whole Earth Catalog", dan ketika mencapai titik ajalnya, mereka membuat edisi terakhir. Saat itu pertengahan 1970-an dan saya masih seusia Anda. Di sampul belakang edisi terakhir itu ada satu foto jalan pedesaan di pagi hari, jenis yang mungkin Anda lalui jika suka bertualang. Di bawahnya ada kata-kata: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." (Jangan Pernah Puas. Selalu Merasa Bodoh). Itulah pesan perpisahan yang dibubuhi tanda tangan mereka. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Saya selalu mengharapkan diri saya begitu. Dan sekarang, karena Anda akan lulus untuk memulai kehidupan baru, saya harapkan Anda juga begitu.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.




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”Tetaplah Merasa Lapar, Tetaplah Merasa Bodoh” - (”Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”)

*Pidato Steve Jobs di Acara Wisuda Stanford University pada tanggal 12 Juni 2005

Terjemahan: Dewi Sri Takarini, Penyelarasan: Setiaman Zebua*

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The Whole Earth Catalog was a counterculture catalog by Stewart Brand published twice a year from 1968 to 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Apple Inc. founder and entrepreneur Steve Jobs has described the Catalog as a conceptual forerunner of Web search engines.[1]


Overview

Andrew Kirk in Counterculture Green notes that the Whole Earth Catalog was preceded by the Whole Earth Truck Store. This store was conceived of as the "first phase" of his Whole Earth idea and was "an alternative library" [2] and an "abbreviated version of Brand's earlier hope to tour the country with educational fairs. The truck was a store but was also a lending library and mobile microeducation fair." [3] It was created in his "1963 Dodge Truck." In 1968, Brand and his wife Lois went "on a commune road trip" with the truck. [3] The Truck Store finally settled in its permanent location in Menlo Park, California. [4]

Brand's intent with the Catalog was to provide education and "access to tools" so a reader could "find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested." The Catalog's development and marketing were driven by an energetic group of founders, primarily Stewart Brand, whose family was also involved with the project. Its outsize pages measured 11x14 inches (28x36 cm). Later editions were more than an inch thick. The early editions were published by the Portola Institute, headed by Richard Raymond. In 1972, the catalog won the National Book Award, the first time a catalog had ever won such an award.[citation needed]

Brand's publishing efforts were suffused with an awareness of the importance of ecology, both as a field of study and as an influence upon the future of humankind and emerging human awareness.

The catalogs disseminated many ideas now associated with the 1960s and 1970s, particularly those of the counterculture and the environmental movements. Later editions and related publications edited by Brand popularized many innovative ideas during the 1970s-1990s.




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“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” that was what end of Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford University, 2005. He quoted the phrase from a magazine he saw, The Whole Earth Catalog. Describe as a beautiful quotation accompanied by a gorgeous scene in which a new day at the back of this magazine.




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Il 12 giugno 2005, in occasione della cerimonia annuale per il conferimento delle lauree a Stanford, Steve Jobs ha pronunciato questo bellissimo discorso. Qui troverete il video (preso da YouTube) e il testo completo in italiano (traduzione di Fabiusli di italiamac.it) e in inglese. Non aggiungo altro. Spero solo che possa ispirare voi quanto ha ispirato me.

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PS: Un grazie al mio Cuginetto che me l'ha segnalato!

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Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.

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This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college 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 have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out 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 someday go to college.

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 of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked 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 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare 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 san 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 ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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 $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? 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. 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 had 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 had 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 lightness 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 worlds 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, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene 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. Sometimes life hits 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 your 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. 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 until you find it. 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 have 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.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.





Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios, delivered the the Commencement address June 12, 2005.

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Commencement speaker Steve Jobs (holding documents) departs Stanford Stadium with, from left, the Rev. Scotty McLennan, Provost John Etchemendy and Board of Trustees Chairman Burt McMurtry, among other university officials.

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From right, Alan Anderson, twin sisters Evelyn and Elvina Mintarno, and Jun Yuan Tan stand with other members of the Class of '05 during the Multifaith Baccalaureate Ceremony on June 11, 2005, in the Main Quad.

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Steve Jobs challenges Class of '05 to 'stay hungry, stay foolish.'

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In his Commencement address, Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs urged Stanford graduates to follow their hearts. A pancreatic cancer survivor, he told the Class of '05, "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."

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Here we see Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.






Stanford Report, June 12, 2005

Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'

BY MICHAEL PEÑA


Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks—including death itself—at the university's 114th Commencement on Sunday in Stanford Stadium.

Wearing jeans and sandals under his black robe, Jobs delivered a keynote address that spanned his adoption at birth to his insights into mortality after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about a year ago. In plainspoken terms, his address struck a balance between the obstacles he has encountered during his notably public life and the lessons he has gleaned—for example, from his high-profile ousting in 1985 from the computer company he helped start.

"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," said Jobs, 50. "It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life."

The 2005 Commencement proceeded with its familiar mix of the goofy and the formal: Graduates attached plush animals to their caps and carried body-length flotation devices onto the field for the Wacky Walk. This traditional kickoff to the ceremony was once again a flurry of wild wigs, rock-star shades, feather boas and a few Speedo swim trunks.

Also seen were a procession of walking iPods, several balloon floats, spray-painted umbrellas and one group that unfurled a volleyball net and spontaneously started to play. The first ones on the field carried boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, while behind them a dance troupe in tutus and ape masks pranced around the track.

But calm was restored once the graduates took their seats and the Rev. Scotty McLennan, dean for religious life, delivered the opening invocation. President John Hennessy then welcomed the estimated 23,000 people in the stadium and, after a presentation of faculty, staff and student awards by Provost John Etchemendy, returned to the podium to introduce the keynote speaker.

Hennessy said Jobs embodied the university's spirit, its "willingness to be bold and strike out in new directions." Hennessy also touched on Jobs' reputation as an innovator, a visionary and an advocate for education who developed partnerships during Apple's earliest days to get computers into schools and communities.

Jobs began by noting that he dropped out of college, and that Sunday's ceremony was the closest he had ever gotten to a university graduation. He then launched into the first part of his address, which focused on having faith that the dots of one's life will connect down the road, even if the journey so far has not followed a clear pattern.

Jobs said his biological mother was an unwed graduate student who wanted him to go to college, so she chose a lawyer and his wife to be the adoptive parents. But because they ultimately wanted a girl, he was adopted by a working-class couple—neither of whom had college degrees, Jobs said.

Jobs said they pledged to send him to college, and when the time came, he chose Reed College in Portland, Ore. Concerned that tuition was draining his parents' life savings and dissatisfied by his required courses, Jobs said he dropped out and began taking courses that interested him—including a calligraphy course that, a decade later, inspired him to design different fonts for the first Macintosh.

"Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward," Jobs said. "You can only connect them looking backward, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."

Jobs also talked about love and loss, and how he discovered what he wanted to do in life at an early age. He was 20 years old when he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, which in 10 years grew into a $2 billion company with 4,000 employees. After his departure from Apple, Jobs went on to found NeXT Software Inc., which was subsequently bought by Apple in 1997—returning him to the company that got him started.

"I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple," Jobs said. "I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did."

The last part of his speech was about death. When he was diagnosed with cancer about a year ago, Jobs said doctors initially gave him up to six months to live. His cancer turned out to be a rare, curable form, and he quickly underwent surgery. He has since recovered, but the experience nonetheless taught him another lesson.

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life," Jobs said. "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

After a standing ovation, Hennessy brought the ceremony to a close with remarks that honored Jane Stanford—this year being the centennial of her death. The graduates of each school were then asked by their deans to stand for the conferral of degrees by Hennessy.

"Stanford is committed to keeping the spirit envisioned by Jane and Leland Stanford alive, and instilling it in the generations of students who pass this way," Hennessy said. "And so, I hope that you leave this campus with a strong reservoir of the Stanford spirit, a reservoir that will grow over the years."

On Sunday, 1,782 bachelor's degrees were awarded, along with 2,026 master's degrees and 904 doctoral degrees, according to Paddy McGowan, associate registrar and director of institutional research. Of the 1,732 undergraduates, 844 were female and 888 were male. Departmental honors were awarded to 388 undergraduates, 294 graduated with university distinction, 118 graduated with multiple majors, 477 completed minors, 70 graduated with dual bachelor's degrees and 133 graduated with combined bachelor's and master's degrees.

Among international students, there were 95 undergraduates from 40 different countries and 948 graduate students from 70 different nations, according to McGowan.

"I just can't believe that I got here," said Farah Giga of the Southern California suburb of LaVerne, who graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors in computer science. "This makes five all-nighters in a row totally worth it."

Kateri Jones sat among family members who came from all over California and Colorado for her daughter, Dyani Jones, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in human biology. One of the biggest achievements, her mother said, was just getting to this point.

"I just think it's a remarkable accomplishment to get through this school," she said. "Just the challenge of being here."



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