I think the great one of the greatest compliments I've ever received: I interviewed with a reporter when I was first starting out in Chicago. And then many years later, I saw the same reporter. And she said to me, "You know what? You really haven't changed. You've just become more of yourself."
我記得我所受到的最高的贊揚之一是:剛在芝加哥開始工作時,我采訪了一個記者。很多年以后我們又見面了。她對我說:“你知道嗎?你一點也沒有變,你只是越來越像你自己了。”
And that is really what we're all trying to do, become more of ourselves. And I believe that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It's how you enrich your spirit. And, trust me, I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
這就是我們一直努力在做的,去做我們自己。我堅信你們會從自己做過的每一件事情上,每一次經歷上學到經驗,這樣你們才能取得進步。也只有這樣你們的心靈才能更加豐富。相信我,內在的智慧比外在的財富更加珍貴。你運用智慧越多,你得到的也會越多。
So, today, I just want to share a few lessons--meaning three--that I've learned in my journey so far. And aren't you glad? Don't you hate it when somebody says, "I'm going to share a few," and it's 10 lessons later? And, you're like, "Listen, this is my graduation. This is not about you." So, it's only going to be three.
今天我想和大家分享我人生中的三個教訓。你們難道不覺得高興嗎?當有人對你們說:“我只是想和你們分享很少的一些”,但事實上隨后卻是10個教訓,你們不覺得反感嗎?你們肯定在想:“聽著,這是我的畢業典禮,又不是你的。”因此我今天只和大家分享三個教訓。
The three lessons that have had the greatest impact on my life have to do with feelings, with failure and with finding happiness.
這三個教訓對我的人生產生了很大的影響,它們是感覺、失敗和追求幸福。
A year after I left college, I was given the opportunity to co-anchor the 6 o'clock news in Baltimore, because the whole goal in the media at the time I was coming up was you try to move to larger markets. And Baltimore was a much larger market than Nashville. So, getting the 6 o'clock news co-ancor job at 22 was such a big deal. It felt like the biggest deal in the world at the time.
我離開大學一年后,我在巴爾的摩得到了一個和別人共同主持6點鐘新聞的機會。我那時在傳媒界的全部目標就是進入到更廣闊的市場中,而巴爾的摩是一個比納什維爾大得多的市場,因此在22歲時得到這份工作對我來說是件天大的好事,是巨輪上最了不起的事情。