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My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky—I found what I loved to do early in life.

Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in ten years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.

We had just released our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.

How can you get fired from a company you started?

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.

But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.

When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. And so at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down—that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.

I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.

But something slowly began to dawn on me—I still loved what I did.

我的第二个故事是关于爱和失去。

我很幸运，我很早就找到了我喜欢做的事。

我和沃兹在我20岁的时候在父母的车库里创办了苹果公司。我们努力工作，十年来，苹果公司从一个车库里的两个人成长为一个拥有4000多名员工、价值20亿美元的公司。

我们刚刚发布了我们最优秀的产品Macintosh——一年前，我刚满30岁。然后我被解雇了。

你怎么会被你创办的公司解雇？

嗯，随着苹果的成长，我们聘请了一位我认为非常有才华的人来和我一起管理公司，在第一年左右的时间里，一切都很顺利。

但后来我们对未来的看法开始出现分歧，最终我们发生了争吵。

当我们这么做的时候，我们的董事会支持他。所以我30岁就出局了。而且非常公开。我整个成年生活的重心都不见了，这是毁灭性的。

几个月来我真的不知道该怎么办。我觉得我让上一代企业家失望了，因为我把接力棒传给我的时候掉了。

我会见了大卫·帕卡德和鲍勃·诺伊斯，并试图为自己的失误道歉。我是一个公开的失败者，我甚至想过逃离山谷。

但我慢慢地开始领悟到一些东西——我仍然热爱我所做的。

The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods 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 the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene 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 was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.

Sometimes life is gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.

Your work is gonna fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. And don't settle.

As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

So keep looking. Don't settle

苹果事件的转变丝毫没有改变这一点。我被拒绝了，但我仍然相爱。所以我决定重新开始。

我当时没有看到，但事实证明，被苹果解雇是我一生中最美好的事情。

成功的沉重感被重新成为初学者的轻松感所取代，对一切都不太确定。它让我自由地进入了我生命中最具创造力的时期之一。

在接下来的五年里，我创办了一家名为next的公司，另一家名为皮克斯的公司，并爱上了一位出色的女性，她将成为我的妻子。

皮克斯继续创作了世界上第一部电脑动画长片《玩具总动员》，现在是世界上最成功的动画工作室。

在一个引人注目的转折点上，苹果收购了NeXT，我又回到了苹果，我们在NeXT开发的技术是苹果当前复兴的核心。劳伦和我有一个美好的家庭。

如果我不是被苹果公司解雇的话，我敢肯定这一切都不会发生。这是一种很难吃的药，但我想病人需要它。

有时候生活会用砖头砸你的头。不要失去信心。

我确信唯一能让我继续前进的是我热爱我所做的。你要找到你爱的东西。这对工作和你的爱人都是一样的。

工作是你生活中最重要的部分。做伟大的工作才是最好的方式。

如果你还没找到，继续找。也不要停下来。

就像所有的心事一样，当你找到它的时候，你就会知道。而且，就像任何伟大的关系一样，随着岁月的流逝，它会变得越来越好。

所以继续找吧。别停下来。

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一代一代都在进化，你的父母比他们的父母强多了，培养出了一个大学生，把你从他们的生活中推举而出。你的未来一定会比你的父母更好，你的孩子也一定会过上比你更好的生活。

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你要像他们一样，在自己的生活里耕耘不休，从不懈怠，从不认命。

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