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04:57 (Sigh) 04:58 and you're so happy. You found something you're interested in. 05:03 'I have an interest! I have an interest!' 05:05 You tell me. You say, 'I have an interest!' I say, 'That's wonderful! And what are you trying to tell me?' 'Well, I have an interest.' I say, 'Do you have passion?' 'I have an interest,' you say. 'Your interest is compared to what?' 'Well, I'm interested in this.' 'And what about the rest of humanity's activities?' 'I'm not interested in them.' 'You've looked at them all, have you?' 'No. Not exactly.' 05:31 Passion is your greatest love. Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. Passion, interest -- it's not the same thing. Are you really going to go to your sweetie and say, 'Marry me! You're interesting.' 05:49(Laughter) 05:52 Won't happen. Won't happen, and you will die alone. 试译：孤独终老 05:56(Laughter) 05:58 What you want, what you want, what you want, is passion. It is beyond interest. You need 20 interests, and then one of them, one of them might grab you, one of them might engage you more than anything else, and then you may have found your greatest love, in comparison to all the other things that interest you, and that's what passion is. 06:21 I have a friend, proposed to his sweetie. He was an economically rational person. He said to his sweetie, 'Let us marry. Let us merge our interests.' 06:34 (Laughter) 06:36 Yes, he did. 06:38 'I love you truly,' he said. 'I love you deeply. I love you more than any other woman I've ever encountered. I love you more than Mary, Jane, Susie, Penelope, Ingrid, Gertrude, Gretel -- I was on a German exchange program then. I love you more than --' All right. She left the room halfway through his enumeration of his love for her. After he got over his surprise at being, you know, turned down, he concluded he'd had a narrow escape from marrying an irrational person. Although, he did make a note to himself that the next time he proposed, it was perhaps not necessary to enumerate all of the women he had auditioned for the part. 07:28(Laughter) Note: 1.grab: [VN] to get sb's attention 2.engage: [VN] (formal) to succeed in attracting and keeping sb's attention and interest 3.in comparison (with/ to sth) eg: By comparision with other European countries, car prices in the UK are very high. eg: He was a loud friendly man. In comparison, his brother was rather shy. 5.halfway: (adv.) 6.enumerate:: to name (things) one after another in a list enumeration 8.surprise [U, C] ~ (at sth) ~ (at seeing, hearing, etc.) a feeling caused by sth happening suddenly or unexpectedly 9. turn down (someone or something) or turn (someone or something) down : to say no to (someone or something) especially in a polite way 10. narrow:usually before noun] only just achieved or avoided 他以极小的差距在赛跑中落败。 11. audition:[VN] ~ sb (for sth) to watch, listen to and judge sb at an audition 07:30 But the point stands. You must look for alternatives so that you find your destiny, or are you afraid of the word 'destiny'? Does the word 'destiny' scare you? That's what we're talking about. And if you don't find the highest expression of your talent, if you settle for 'interesting,' what the hell ever that means, do you know what will happen at the end of your long life? Your friends and family will be gathered in the cemetery, and there beside your gravesite will be a tombstone, and inscribed on that tombstone it will say, 'Here lies a distinguished engineer, who invented Velcro.' But what that tombstone should have said, in an alternative lifetime, what it should have said if it was your highest expression of talent, was, 'Here lies the last Nobel Laureate in Physics, who formulated the Grand Unified Field Theory and demonstrated the practicality of warp drive.' 08:32(Laughter) 08:34 Velcro, indeed! 08:36(Laughter) 08:39 One was a great career. One was a missed opportunity. But then, there are some of you who, in spite of all these excuses, you will find, you will find your passion. And you'll still fail. 08:59 You're going to fail, because -- because you're not going to do it, because you will have invented a new excuse, any excuse to fail to take action, and this excuse, I've heard so many times: 'Yes, I would pursue a great career, but, I value human relationships -- 09:31(Laughter) 09:32 more than accomplishment. I want to be a great friend. I want to be a great spouse. I want to be a great parent, and I will not sacrifice them on the altar of great accomplishment.' 09:47(Laughter) 09:48 What do you want me to say? Now, do you really want me to say now, tell you, 'Really, I swear I don't kick children.' 09:55(Laughter) 09:58 Look at the worldview you've given yourself. You're a hero no matter what. And I, by suggesting ever so delicately that you might want a great career, must hate children. I don't hate children. I don't kick them. Yes, there was a little kid wandering through this building when I came here, and no, I didn't kick him. 10:17(Laughter) 10:19Course, I had to tell him the building was for adults only, and to get out. He mumbled something about his mother, and I told him she'd probably find him outside anyway. Last time I saw him, he was on the stairs crying. 10:32(Laughter) 10:33What a wimp. 10:34(Laughter) Note: 1.stand: 2.settle for sth: to accept sth that is not exactly what you want but is the best that is available 3. gravesite 墓地 4. tombstone 墓碑 5.Laureate：a person who has been given an official honour or prize for sth important they have achieved荣誉获得者；获奖者: 6.at / on the altar of sth (formal) because of sth that you think is worth suffering for 因为,为了(值得为之受苦的事物): 7.mumble：to speak or say sth in a quiet voice in a way that is not clear 嘟哝；口齿不清地说 8. wimp：(informal, disapproving) a person who is not strong, brave or confident 懦夫；窝囊废 10:35 But what do you mean? That's what you expect me to say. Do you really think it's appropriate that you should actually take children and use them as a shield? You know what will happen someday, you ideal parent, you? The kid will come to you someday and say, 'I know what I want to be. I know what I'm going to do with my life.' You are so happy. It's the conversation a parent wants to hear, because your kid's good in math, and you know you're going to like what comes next. Says your kid, 'I have decided I want to be a magician. I want to perform magic tricks on the stage.'表演魔术 11:18(Laughter) 11:19 And what do you say? You say, you say, 'That's risky, kid. Might fail, kid. Don't make a lot of money at that, kid. I don't know, kid, you should think about that again, kid. You're so good at math, why don't you --' 11:35 The kid interrupts you and says, 'But it is my dream. It is my dream to do this.' And what are you going to say? You know what you're going to say? 'Look kid. I had a dream once, too, but -- But --' So how are you going to finish the sentence with your 'but'? 'But. I had a dream too, once, kid, but I was afraid to pursue it.' Or are you going to tell him this: 'I had a dream once, kid. But then, you were born.' 12:07(Laughter) 12:10(Applause) 12:12 Do you really want to use your family, do you really ever want to look at your spouse and your kid, and see your jailers? There was something you could have said to your kid, when he or she said, 'I have a dream.' You could have said -- looked the kid in the face and said, 'Go for it, kid! Just like I did.' But you won't be able to say that, because you didn't. So you can't. 12:51(Laughter) 12:56 And so the sins of the parents are visited on the poor children. Why will you seek refuge in human relationships as your excuse not to find and pursue your passion? You know why. In your heart of hearts, you know why, and I'm being deadly serious. You know why you would get all warm and fuzzy and wrap yourself up in human relationships. It is because you are -- you know what you are. 13:33 You're afraid to pursue your passion. You're afraid to look ridiculous. You're afraid to try. You're afraid you may fail. Great friend, great spouse, great parent, great career. Is that not a package? Is that not who you are? How can you be one without the other? But you're afraid. 14:03 And that's why you're not going to have a great career. Unless -- 'unless,' that most evocative of all English words -- 'unless.' But the 'unless' word is also attached to that other, most terrifying phrase, 'If only I had ...' 'If only I had ...' If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt a lot. 14:44 So, those are the many reasons why you are going to fail to have a great career. Unless -- 14:57Unless. 15:00Thank you. 15:02(Applause) Note: 1.take:used to introduce sb / sth as an example 2.magician 魔术师 syn:conjuror 3.at that: used when giving more information about something or someone that was just mentioned 4. 'visit sth on / upon sb / sth(old use) 5.refuge:[U] ~ (from sb / sth) shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc. 庇护；避难: 6.in your heart (of hearts): if you know, feel or believe sth in your heart, you are secretly sure about it although you may not admit it eg:In her heart she knew she would never go. eg: Deep in his heart, he wanted Laura back.(Longman) 8.fuzzy:covered with short soft fine hair or fur 覆有绒毛的；毛茸茸的 9.package:a group of related things that go together 10.evocative:~ (of sth) making you think of or remember a strong image or feeling, in a pleasant way引起记忆的；唤起感情的: 11.ricochet:[V +adv. / prep.] (of a moving object 运动的物体) to hit a surface and come off it fast at a different angle 弹开；反弹出去: 12. a lot:— used to say that you feel a particular emotion very strongly |
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