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Jobs got panicky. He had always written his own presentations, but he had never done a commencement address.
喬布斯有點兒不安。以前產品展示的腳本都是他自己寫的，但是他從來沒有在畢業典禮上作過演講。
One night he sat down and wrote the speech himself, with no help other than bouncing ideas off his wife.
一天晚上，他開始自己撰寫演講稿，除了征求妻子的意見，沒有其他任何人的幫助。
As a result, it turned out to be a very intimate and simple talk,
他寫出了一篇非常親切簡涪的講話稿，
with the unadorned and personal feel of a perfect Steve Jobs product.
充滿樸實的個人感受，是完美的喬布斯作品。
Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is "Let me tell you a story."
美國作家亞歷克斯·黑利曾說過，演講最好的開場是“我來給你們講個故事吧”。
Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story. And that was the approach Jobs chose.
沒人愿意聽別人說教，但是人人都喜歡聽故亊。而這正是喬布斯選擇的演講方式。
"Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life," he began. "That's it. No big deal. Just three stories."
他的開場白是這樣的：“今天，我想向你們講述我人生中的三個故事，就是這樣，沒什么大不了的，三個故事而已。”
The first was about dropping out of Reed College.
第一個是從里德學院退學的故事。
"I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me,
“我不用再去上自己不感興趣的必修課，
and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting."
可以去聽更有趣的課程。”
The second was about how getting fired from Apple turned out to be good for him.
第二個故事是被蘋果公司解雇如何變成了對自己有益的經歷。
"The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything."
“成功的沉重又重新被初學者的輕松所代替，對所有事情都不再那樣確信。”
