Steve Jobs' talk about death in Stanford Commencement Speech 賈伯斯談論死亡2005史丹佛大學畢典演說

今早聽廣播新聞時, 令人驚訝的消息是賈伯斯去世了。
賈伯斯在2005年史丹佛大學畢業典禮時講到了面對死亡這件事所教會他的事，跟歐普拉在2008年同樣在史丹佛大學的畢典演講http://chuvivian.blogspot.com/2011/07/stanford-commencement-address.html ，講到她人生所學到的教訓時，都提到了follow your heart (Jobs)及follow your feelings(Oprah)
同樣地點, 不同時間, 但同樣都是美國現今的傳奇人物,一樣精采觸動人心的演說， 跟下一代所分享的思維都是告訴年輕人傾聽自己內心的聲音, 人生是自己的, 過自己想要的生活。

下面是賈伯斯該演講時的部份內容:

"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."



"This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s 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."



以上英文參考於下列網站http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/10/steve-jobs-talked-about-death-in-2005-stanford-commencement-speech-2/