（该文章节选于Drew Houston2013年6月在MIT美国麻省理工的毕业生典礼上的演讲。看后心生欢喜，不分享不安。于是将内容做了提炼，并翻译成中文。查看完整视频和全部英文文本，请见文章最后链接~~ ）
一、Drew Houston是谁？
先看看样貌：
你该为什么而努力？— You only live 30,000 days in your life.
没错，就是左边颜值较高的这位啦，Dropbox的创始人和CEO，MIT毕业生
（→_→右边那位同为MIT大神的伊朗小伙子，联合创始人和CTO的Arash Ferdowsi，对不起啊~ ~）
二、Dropbox是什么？
你该为什么而努力？— You only live 30,000 days in your life.
Dropbox是个免费网络文件同步工具。简单来说，如果丢三落四的你忘记带U盘，就不用哭晕在会场，而是轻松的在Dropbox里找到你的文件。现在这个概念已经不陌生，即“云端”这个概念，但是人家2007年就已经研发，所以还是觉得很很牛。
三、我们要为什么而努力
2013年的6月，在MIT美国麻省理工的毕业生典礼上，Drew 作为校友分享了他“一个网球，一个圆圈和一个数字”的故事。
你该为什么而努力？— You only live 30,000 days in your life.
（带上学士帽，理科男气质还是很可爱滴。尤其是代表理科的黄色拨穗儿~）
第一，一个网球的故事
The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.
最幸福与成功的那群人，不仅仅热爱他们所做之事，他们还为解决问题而着迷，而解决这些问题对他们来说事关重大。他们让我想到小狗追逐网球的画面：小狗的眼睛里透漏着一丝疯狂，他们甚至会把拴着的皮带挣脱断掉，但仍然艰难地追逐着网球。
I have some other friends who also work hard and get paid well in their jobs, but they complain as if they were shackled to a desk. The problem is a lot of people don’t find their tennis ball right away. It took me a while to get it, but the hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun. So after today, it's not about pushing yourself;it's about finding your tennis ball, the thing that pulls you. It might take awhile, but until you find it, keep listening for that little voice.
我还有一些朋友工作努力，报酬也颇丰，但却时常抱怨，一张办公桌像是他们的镣铐。问题就在于，他们没有马上找到自己的网球。
我花了很久才领悟这个道理：最努力的那群人努力工作并不是因为他们自律，而是因为解决一个令人兴奋的问题于他们而言是快乐的。所以从现在开始，不要勉强推着自己前进，而是试着找到自己的网球，它自然会拉着你前进。也许你会彷徨许久，但在找到之前，请倾听你内心的声音。
第二，一个圆圈的故事
You're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.Think about that for a minute: who would be in your circle of 5? One thing I'velearned is surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as importantas being talented or working hard. Can you imagine if Michael Jordan hadn’tbeen in the NBA, if his circle of 5 had been a bunch of guys in Italy?
你就是与你相处最多的5个人的平均水平。因此花一分钟想一下，在你的这个5个人的圆圈里，都有谁呢？我学到的一件事就是，与一群启迪自己的人为伍，与拥有天赋和努力一样重要。试想如果Michael Jordan没有加入NBA,如果他的5人圆圈是几个意大利人会是怎么样子呢？
第三，一个数字的故事
The last trap you might fall into after school is "getting ready." Don't get me wrong: learning is your top priority, but now the fastest way to learn is by doing. If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying and planning and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
另外一个我们容易掉入的陷阱就是“准备好了再去做”。事实上，学习是首要的，不过最快的学习方式却是通过实践。如果你有一个梦想，你可以用一辈子的时间去学习和计划以及为其准备，但是你真正应该做的是开始行动起来。
No one has a 5.0 in real life. In fact, when you finish school,the whole notion of a GPA just goes away.
没有人在真实生活中是完美的，就像在学校GPA拿到满分一样。事实上，当你离开学校的时候，GPA也离开了。
Bill Gates's first company made software for traffic lights.Steve Jobs's first company made plastic whistles that let you make free phonecalls. Both failed, but it's hard to imagine they were too upset about it.
比尔盖茨的第一个公司是做交通灯软件，乔布斯的第一个公司是制作免费打电话的塑料哨子。他们两个都失败了，但是我们现在很难想象当时的他们是多么的为失败而烦恼。
"There are 30,000 days in your life." I'm almost 9,000days down. What the hell have I been doing? I realized there are no warm-ups,no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more wordsof a story. So from then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, andinstead tried to make it interesting. I wanted my story to be an adventure —and that's made all the difference.
人的一生只有30000天，而我已经花了9000天了，我都做了什么？我意识到，人生没有热身，没有练习，也没有复位按钮。每一天我们都为自己的故事增加一些词语。因此从那时候开始，我不再试图让生活完美，而是让生活更有趣。我想让我的人生故事是一场冒险，正是这个想法改变了我的一切。
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedomto make it an adventure.
总之，不执着于追求完美的生活，而追求自由，让生活变成华丽冒险。
好了，听完了Drew的故事，我们来思考一下，我们要为什么而努力呢？我的网球是什么呢？我的圆圈中的五个人是谁？我的生活是一场完美之争，还是华丽冒险呢?
想查看完整版视频？
http://video.mit.edu/watch/mit-commencement-2013-speeches-24832/
想看视频完整文字稿？
http://news.mit.edu/2013/commencement-address-houston-0607
读过硕，念过博，梦想开家图书馆。
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