爱和失去：乔布斯第二个故事 ——乔布斯

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Love and loss——The second story of Jobs

——Jobs

I was lucky-I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parentsgarage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of usin a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finestcreation-the Macintosh-a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired . How can youget fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought wasvery talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But thenour visions of the future began to diverge¹ and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, ourBoard of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been thefocus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating² .

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generationof entrepreneurs³ down-that I had dropped the baton⁴ as it was being passed to me. I met withDavid Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very publicfailure, and I even thought about running away from the valley . But something slowly began todawn on me-I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. Ihad been rejected , but I was still in love. And so I decided⁵ to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that couldhave ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness ofbeing a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creativeperiods 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 theworld's first computer animated⁶ feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animationstudio in the world. In a remarkable⁷ turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, andthe technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance⁸ . AndLaurene 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 wasawful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with abrick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved whatI 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 dowhat you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If youhaven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle . As with all matters of the heart, you'll know whenyou find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. Sokeep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

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爱和失去——乔布斯第二个故事

——乔布斯

我很幸运，因为我很早就找到了自己爱做的事。我二十岁时和沃兹在我父母的车库里面创立了苹果公司。我们努力工作，十年之后，苹果公司已经从车库里两个人的小打小闹发展成了拥有四千多名员工、价值二十亿美元的大公司。当时，我们最好的产品——Macintosh——才推出仅仅一年，我也刚刚年满三十。然后，我被解雇了。你怎么可能被你自己亲手创立的公司解雇呢？嗯，在苹果公司不断壮大的过程中，我们雇用了一个我觉得很有才能的人和我一起管理公司。第一年，一切顺利。但后来我们对未来的设想产生了分歧，最终我们吵了起来，当时董事会站在了他那边。所以，三十岁时，我出局了，在众目睽睽之下出局。我生命的支柱崩塌了，这次打击是毁灭性的。

在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我觉得，我令上一代的企业家们失望了，我把他们传给我的接力棒弄掉了。我与David Pack和Bob Noyce见了面，为自己把事情弄糟向他们道歉。我的失败众所周知，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但是，我渐渐想通了一些事情——我依然喜爱我做的事情，在苹果公司的滑铁卢丝毫没有改变这一点。我被解雇了，但我仍然喜爱我做的事情。所以，我决定东山再起。

我当时没有觉察，但后来发现，被苹果公司解雇可能是我这辈子发生的最好的事情。

一个成功者的包袱没有了，有的只是一个初出茅庐者的轻松感觉，我对各种事情也不再那么胸有成竹。这让我轻装上阵，进入了我生命中最有创造力的阶段之一。

在之后的五年里，我创立了一家名叫NeXT的公司和一家叫Pixar的公司，并和一个非凡的女子坠入爱河，她后来成为了我的妻子。Pixar制作了世界上第一部用电脑制作的动画电影《玩具总动员》。Pixar现在是全世界最成功的动画工作室。在一系列因缘际会之后，苹果公司收购了NeXT，我又回到了苹果公司。我们在NeXT开发的技术成了今天苹果公司复兴的关键。我还和Laurene建立了一个幸福的家庭。

我确信，如果我不被苹果公司解雇，这些事情都不会发生。这是苦口良药，但我觉得病人需要它。有些时候，生活会用砖头砸你的脑袋，但不要丧失信念。我坚信，让我前行的唯一动力，就是我在做自己喜爱的事情。你要找到你爱做的事情。工作如此，爱情也是如此。你的工作将会占据你生活中的很大一块。你只有相信自己在做着伟大的工作，才能真正心满意足。而做伟大的工作的前提，是你喜爱自己所做的事情。如果你现在还没有找到，那么继续找，不要停。只要是内心向往的东西，你就会找到。这和任何美好的爱情一样，随着岁月的流逝只会渐入佳境。所以继续找，直到你找到，不要停。