拒绝将就：四分之一人生危机【TED演讲】
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剧集目录
| 集 | 标题 | 时长 |
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| P1 | 拒绝将就：四分之一人生危机【TED演讲】 中英双语 | 16:06 |
| P2 | 拒绝将就：四分之一人生危机【TED演讲】 英文字幕(中文外挂 | 16:06 |
| P3 | 拒绝将就：四分之一人生危机【TED演讲】 无字幕(中英外挂) | 16:06 |
P1 · 拒绝将就：四分之一人生危机【TED演讲】 p01 中英双语 (P1)
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:01 | I did everything I was supposed to do. | 我做了我应该做的 |
| 0:03 | I got good grades in high school. | 我高中成绩不错 |
| 0:05 | I took AP classes. | 我上过AP课 |
| 0:07 | I went to a good college. | 我去了一所好大学。 |
| 0:08 | I got a great job. | 我得到了一个伟大的工作。 |
| 0:10 | I climbed the career ladder. | 我爬上了职业阶梯。 |
| 0:12 | On paper, I had it all. | 在纸上,我得到了这一切。 |
| 0:14 | I was making $70,000 a year at the age of 28. | 我28岁时每年赚7万块 |
| 0:18 | I was working for the federal government. | 我在联邦政府工作 |
| 0:19 | I had health care. | 我得到了医疗保健。 |
展开字幕全文（382 条）
| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I did everything I was supposed to do. | 我做了我应该做的 |
| 2 | I got good grades in high school. | 我高中成绩不错 |
| 3 | I took AP classes. | 我上过AP课 |
| 4 | I went to a good college. | 我去了一所好大学。 |
| 5 | I got a great job. | 我得到了一个伟大的工作。 |
| 6 | I climbed the career ladder. | 我爬上了职业阶梯。 |
| 7 | On paper, I had it all. | 在纸上,我得到了这一切。 |
| 8 | I was making $70,000 a year at the age of 28. | 我28岁时每年赚7万块 |
| 9 | I was working for the federal government. | 我在联邦政府工作 |
| 10 | I had health care. | 我得到了医疗保健。 |
| 11 | I had benefits. | 我有好处。 |
| 12 | I had job security. | 我有工作保障。 |
| 13 | You literally can't get fired from working for the government. | 你绝对不能因为为政府工作而被解雇 |
| 14 | Trust me, there are people that should. | 相信我 有些人应该这么做 |
| 15 | My parents were impressed. | 我父母很惊讶 |
| 16 | My friends were impressed. | 我的朋友们都很感动 |
| 17 | My boss told me I was doing a great job. | 我老板说我做得很好 |
| 18 | I'd go to happy hour and tell everyone I was the special assistant to the director of global operations at the US Peace Corps, | 我会去快乐的时刻告诉大家 我是美国和平队全球行动主任的特别助理 |
| 19 | and everyone thought that was so cool. | 大家都觉得这很酷 |
| 20 | They asked for my business card. | 他们要我的名片 |
| 21 | I got to sit in on meetings at the White House. | 我得参加白宫的会议 |
| 22 | Everything was perfect about my job, except for one tiny kind of important thing. | 除了一件小事之外 我的工作是完美的 |
| 23 | I was miserable. | 我很悲惨。 |
| 24 | How did I know I was miserable? | 我怎么知道我很悲惨? |
| 25 | Every single morning when my alarm would go off at 630 in the morning to NPR, | 每天早上 当我的警报会在早上6点30分响到NPR时 |
| 26 | I'd feel a shooting pain go up and down my back. | 我总觉得枪伤会上下 |
| 27 | I felt this pain when I was getting out of bed, | 我下床时感觉很痛苦 |
| 28 | when I was brushing my teeth, | 当我刷牙, |
| 29 | when I was getting dressed and putting on my shirt and tie, | 当我穿好衣服 穿上衬衫和领带时 |
| 30 | when I was taking the bus down to work, | 当我搭公交车去上班时 |
| 31 | when I scanned my ID badge in at the office, | 我在办公室扫描身份证时 |
| 32 | when I rode up the elevator to my desk, | 当我骑电梯到我的办公桌, |
| 33 | when I was sitting at my desk typing memos, | 当我坐在我的桌子打字备忘录, |
| 34 | when my boss would invite me in for meetings and we'd talk about best practices, | 当我的老板邀请我去开会 我们来谈谈最佳做法 |
| 35 | and when my boss would email me every single night on my Blackberry at 10 p.m. | 我老板每晚10点都会用黑莓发邮件给我 |
| 36 | The pain was so bad, I developed shingles on my side. | 痛苦是如此糟糕, 我发展了丝带在我身边。 |
| 37 | Shingles is a nerve disease common around people over the age of 70, not 20-somethings. | Shingles是一种常见于70岁以上人群的神经疾病,而不是20-某种程度. |
| 38 | This was the pain of confusion. | 这是混乱的痛苦。 |
| 39 | It was the pain of climbing this career ladder to success and realizing that I was nowhere. | 它的痛苦是攀登这个事业阶梯 成功并意识到我无处不在。 |
| 40 | I was somewhere I didn't want to be. | 我本来不想去的地方 |
| 41 | I was stuck in a quarter-life crisis. | 我被困在半生危机中 |
| 42 | 我花了很多时间在Facebook上, 过度在FOMO, | |
| 43 | fear of missing out, comparing myself to what my friends were doing. | 害怕失手 把自己和我的朋友们做的事比起来 |
| 44 | So there was my friend going off to business school, | 我朋友去商学院了 |
| 45 | and I was like, maybe I should get my MBA. | 我当时想, 也许我应该得到我的MBA。 |
| 46 | And there was my friend going to teach at a charter school, | 我朋友要去包机学校教书 |
| 47 | and I was like, maybe I should go work at a charter school. | 我当时想,也许我应该去 特许学校工作。 |
| 48 | And there was my friend opening a food truck, | 我朋友开了一辆餐车 |
| 49 | and I was like, maybe I should open a food truck, | 我当时想, 也许我应该开一辆餐车, |
| 50 | even though I'm an awful driver and a really bad cook. | 虽然我是一个糟糕的司机 和非常糟糕的厨师。 |
| 51 | And so there was a buddy of mine, | 所以我有个朋友 |
| 52 | he'd already graduated from one of the top law schools in the country, | 他已经从全国顶尖法学院毕业了 |
| 53 | got this amazing job at one of the top corporate firms making well over six figures. | 在最顶尖的公司之一 得到了这份惊人的工作 超过六位数字。 |
| 54 | And he's like, he's got it all figured out. | 且道:"他个个个个个个个都解了. |
| 55 | And there he is traveling with his fiance, | 他和他的未婚夫一起旅行, |
| 56 | traveling with his girlfriend in Peru, getting engaged at sunset in front of Machu Picchu. | 与女友在秘鲁旅行,在马丘比丘面前的日落时订婚. |
| 57 | And I'm like, man, this guy's got it all figured out. | 而我喜欢,男人,这家伙已经得到了这一切。 |
| 58 | He's got this amazing job. | 他有这个惊人的工作。 |
| 59 | He's already going to get married. | 他已经要结婚了 |
| 60 | He's at Machu Picchu. | 他在马丘比丘. |
| 61 | I hate my job. | 我讨厌我的工作 |
| 62 | I hate my life. | 我讨厌我的生活。 |
| 63 | I can't even get a date on OkCupid. | 我连奥库皮德的约会都找不到 |
| 64 | My life is ruined. | 我的生活毁了。 |
| 65 | I'm a goner. | 我是一个死。 |
| 66 | And it was only when I met other young people going through the exact same thing I was | 直到我遇到其他的年轻人 经历同样的事情 |
| 67 | that I was able to turn my quarter-life crisis into a breakthrough. | 我得以把生活危机变成突破 |
| 68 | So this talk's going to teach you a few lessons I learned on my journey | 所以这次演讲会给你一些教训 我在旅途中学到的 |
| 69 | that can help anyone that's stuck in a quarter-life crisis | 能帮助任何陷入四分之一生命危机的人 |
| 70 | or help all of you avoid your quarter-life crisis and find meaningful work. | 或帮助大家避免你 四分之一生命的危机 找到有意义的工作。 |
| 71 | So the first lesson I learned, find believers. | 因此,我学到的第一个教训是找到信徒。 |
| 72 | Surround yourself with people that believe in the beauty of their dreams. | 与信其梦之美者围绕. |
| 73 | Because I used to come home in D.C. every night to my roommate, Dan. | 因为我以前每晚都会回到华盛顿 我的室友丹 |
| 74 | And I'd be like, Dan, I hate my job. | 而我会喜欢,丹,我讨厌我的工作。 |
| 75 | I don't want to do this anymore. | 我不想再这样了 |
| 76 | I want to move across the country. | 我想搬到全国各地去 |
| 77 | I want to live in San Francisco. | 我想住在旧金山 |
| 78 | I've always wanted to live there. | 我一直想住在这里。 |
| 79 | I want to start writing. | 我想开始写作。 |
| 80 | I want to start being a creative. | 我想开始成为一个创意。 |
| 81 | I want to start supporting social entrepreneurs. | 我想开始支持社会企业家。 |
| 82 | I want to start supporting young people that are going after their dreams. | 我想开始支持那些追求梦想的年轻人。 |
| 83 | And Dan would look at me, stare, roll his eyes, take a swig of beer, say, smiley, suck it up. | 和丹会看着我, 凝视, 滚他的眼睛, 喝一喝啤酒, 说,微笑,吸它。 |
| 84 | Everyone hates their job. | 每个人都讨厌他们的工作。 |
| 85 | It's part of life. | 谓众生之分. |
| 86 | And I was like, man, you know, that's kind of brutal. | 我当时想,伙计,你知道, 这有点残忍。 |
| 87 | I was 28 at the time, which is old, but it's not that old. | 当时我28岁,虽然很老,但没那么老. |
| 88 | I didn't really spend the next 40 years of my life depressed. | 接下来的40年里,我并没有真正消沉 |
| 89 | But you know what? | 但你知道吗? |
| 90 | The majority of the world thinks like Dan. | 世人多以为丹. |
| 91 | Seventy percent of Americans are disengaged at their jobs. | 70%的美国人失业了 |
| 92 | Seventy percent. | 百分之七十. 师曰. |
| 93 | One-fifth of those people are so disengaged, | 这些人中有五分之一如此脱离 |
| 94 | they're actively undermining their coworkers' work. | 他们正在积极破坏同事的工作。 |
| 95 | They're literally getting paid to mess things up for the company that they work for. | 他们真的得到工资来搞乱他们为公司工作的事情。 |
| 96 | And this is a shame. | 这真可惜 |
| 97 | It's a shame because millions of people wake up every day unfulfilled, depressed, | 可惜的是,每天都有数百万人 醒来时没有实现,沮丧, |
| 98 | not showing up fully for themselves, their families, their communities, or the world at large. | 没有为自己、家人、社区或整个世界充分展示。 |
| 99 | So then I met Believers. | 于是我遇见了信徒。 |
| 100 | I went to a leadership program that brings together 20-somethings | 我参加了一个领导班子 召集了20多个人 |
| 101 | that are interested in creating social change, | 有兴趣创造社会变革, |
| 102 | that are interested in social entrepreneurship, | 对社会创业感兴趣的人, |
| 103 | that are interested in using business for good. | 有兴趣把生意永远利用 |
| 104 | The program was called Starting Block. | 节目名为"开始块". |
| 105 | And at Starting Block, I met Believers. | 在开始街区,我遇到了信徒。 |
| 106 | I met people like Debbie. | 我遇见了黛比这样的人 |
| 107 | 黛比在启动Goldie Blocks, | |
| 108 | a toy company that teaches young girls' engineering skills. | 一个玩具公司 教年轻女孩的工程技能。 |
| 109 | I met people like Ted. | 我遇见了泰德这样的人 |
| 110 | Ted started Money Think, | 泰德开始赚钱了 考虑一下 |
| 111 | which is a nonprofit that teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship to urban youth. | 它是一个非营利组织,向城市青年传授金融知识和创业能力。 |
| 112 | I met people like Tom. | 我遇见了汤姆这样的人 |
| 113 | Tom started Rising Tide Car Wash, | 汤姆开始涨潮车洗, |
| 114 | a small business in South Florida with his father that employs people with autism. | 和父亲在南佛罗里达的一家小生意 雇佣自闭症患者 |
| 115 | So I met these Believers, and they're like, | 于是我遇见了这些信徒, 他们喜欢, |
| 116 | wait a second, wait a second, Smiley. | 等等,等一下,笑脸 |
| 117 | You want to leave D.C. | 你想离开华盛顿 |
| 118 | You want to move to San Francisco. | 你想搬到旧金山去 |
| 119 | You want to start writing. | 你想开始写作。 |
| 120 | You want to start supporting social entrepreneurs. | 你想开始支持社会企业家。 |
| 121 | You have to do that. | 你必须这样做。 |
| 122 | The world needs you to do that. | 世界需要你这样做。 |
| 123 | Because a crazy thing happens when you find Believers. | 因为当你找到信徒时 会发生一件疯狂的事 |
| 124 | You find accountability. | 你找到责任。 |
| 125 | Now normally in the real world, you tell someone you're going to quit your job, | 现在通常在现实世界, 你告诉别人,你要去辞掉你的工作, |
| 126 | and they're like, yeah, dude, you said that like six months ago. | 他们就像,是的,伙计,你说的 像六个月前。 |
| 127 | Everyone's going to quit their job. | 皆悉辞去职. |
| 128 | Whatever, you're not going to do it. | 不管怎么样,你不会这样做的。 |
| 129 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 130 | You tell someone you're going to write a book, | 你告诉别人你会写一本书, |
| 131 | and they're like, everyone's writing a book. | 他们喜欢,每个人都在写一本书。 |
| 132 | I'll believe it when I see it. | 一见便信. |
| 133 | You'll never do it. | 你永远不会这样做。 |
| 134 | Not when you tell Believers. | 当你告诉信道者的时候, |
| 135 | Because when you tell Believers, you have accountability. | 因为当你告诉信士们的时候,你们是负责任的。 |
| 136 | I told my buddy Evan that I was going to quit my job at Starting Block. | 我跟我的朋友埃文说 我要辞去在开始街区的工作 |
| 137 | And you know what he asked me? | 你知道他问我什么吗? |
| 138 | One simple question. | 一个简单的问题。 |
| 139 | When? | 什么时候? |
| 140 | When are you going to have the talk with your boss? | 你什么时候跟你老板谈? |
| 141 | And he texted me every single week after that program. | 节目结束后他每周给我发短信 |
| 142 | Have you had the talk with your boss yet? | 你跟老板谈过了吗? |
| 143 | I'd be in meetings with senior officials at the White House getting texts and calls from this guy. | 我会和白宫的高级官员见面 得到他发来的短信和电话 |
| 144 | I was like, you've got to stop calling me, man. | 我当时想,你必须停止给我打电话,伙计。 |
| 145 | You're going to get me arrested. | 你会让我被捕的 |
| 146 | But you know what? | 但你知道吗? |
| 147 | The only reason I did have that talk with my boss, | 我和老板谈话的唯一原因 |
| 148 | the only reason I did quit my job, | 我辞职的唯一原因 |
| 149 | the only reason I did move across the country to a city I wanted to live in, | 我搬到一个我想居住的城市的唯一原因 |
| 150 | the only reason I did write a book, | 我写书的唯一原因 |
| 151 | the only reason I did start supporting social entrepreneurs, | 我开始支持社会企业家的唯一原因 |
| 152 | and the only reason I'm standing here right now is because people like Evan held me accountable. | 我现在站在这里的唯一原因 是因为像埃文这样的人让我负责 |
| 153 | Because when you find Believers, you find accountability. | 因为当你们发现信士们的时候,你们必定要敬畏。 |
| 154 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 155 | Now people like Debbie and Ted and Tom weren't talking about making lots of money. | 现在,像黛比,泰德和汤姆这样的人 并没有谈论赚很多钱。 |
| 156 | They weren't talking about rising up the corporate ladder. | 他们不是在说要升职 |
| 157 | 他们不是在说在TechCrunch或Fast公司上演 | |
| 158 | They were talking about making the world more innovative, compassionate, and sustainable. | 他们正在谈论使世界更加创新、富有同情心和可持续。 |
| 159 | They were talking about using their access, their privilege, and their skills | 他们谈论利用他们的进入、特权和技能 |
| 160 | to empower people less fortunate than them. | 赋予比他们更幸运的人权力。 |
| 161 | Because the success symbol for my generation, for our generation, | 因为我这一代人的成功象征 |
| 162 | isn't climbing the career ladder. | 不是攀登职业阶梯。 |
| 163 | It's doing work that matters. | 它的工作才是关键 |
| 164 | So we're not the me, me, me generation. | 所以,我们不是 我,我,我的世代。 |
| 165 | Fifty percent of Millennials, that's most of you in this room, | 百分之五十的千禧年, 这是你们大多数在这个房间, |
| 166 | would take a pay cut to find work that matches their values. | 要找到符合他们价值的工作 需要削减工资 |
| 167 | Ninety percent of Millennials want to use their skills for good. | 90%的千禧年人希望将自己的技能用于善用. |
| 168 | Despite unprecedented levels of unemployment and student debt, | 尽管失业和学生债务水平前所未有, |
| 169 | our generation wants to work with purpose. | 我们这一代人希望有目的地工作。 |
| 170 | So how do you actually find meaningful work? | 你怎么找到有意义的工作? |
| 171 | Well, the second lesson I learned is that you have to stop comparing yourself to others | 好吧,我学到的第二个教训是,你必须停止 比较自己和其他人 |
| 172 | and start pursuing what is meaningful to you. | 开始追求对你们有意义的东西 |
| 173 | So I went back and I interviewed my friend, the corporate lawyer, | 于是我回去采访我的朋友 公司律师 |
| 174 | that had it all figured out, that was Mary, that got engaged at Machu Picchu. | 玛丽在马丘比丘订婚 |
| 175 | I was like, man, you got this great job, you're making all this money. | 我当时想,伙计,你得到了这个伟大的工作, 你赚了这么多钱。 |
| 176 | What's the secret? | 有什么秘密吗? |
| 177 | You know, what's the secret? | 你知道,有什么秘密吗? |
| 178 | And you know what he told me? | 你知道他告诉我什么吗? |
| 179 | He told me that after three years of law school, | 他告诉我 法学院三年后 |
| 180 | hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt, | 数十万美元的学生债务, |
| 181 | and now making all this money at the corporate firm, | 现在在公司赚了这么多钱 |
| 182 | that he was miserable as a corporate lawyer. | 作为公司律师他很痛苦 |
| 183 | And that he was going to go back to grad school at the age of 30 | 他30岁时要回研究生院 |
| 184 | to become a high school social studies teacher. | 成为高中社会学教师。 |
| 185 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 186 | Which is great for him. | 这对他很好 |
| 187 | But what's the lesson? | 但有何教训? |
| 188 | What's the lesson? | 什么是教训? |
| 189 | Nobody knows what they're doing. | 没有人知道他们在做什么。 |
| 190 | Nobody has it figured out. | 没人知道 |
| 191 | The grass is always greener. | 草常绿. |
| 192 | Instead of comparing yourself to others, | 而不是把自己和别人比起来 |
| 193 | instead of comparing yourself to everyone on Facebook, | 而不是把自己和Facebook上的每个人比起来 |
| 194 | start figuring out what it is you want. | 开始想清楚你想要什么 |
| 195 | Don't climb the career ladder to nowhere. | 别爬事业梯子到无处. |
| 196 | Build a career that matters to you. | 建立对你重要的事业. |
| 197 | So why are you here? | 那你为什么来这里? |
| 198 | What do you want to do for others? | 你想为别人做什么? |
| 199 | How can you align your own gifts, your unique gifts, | 你如何调整自己的礼物, 你独特的礼物, |
| 200 | with the impact you want to have on the world | 和你想对世界的影响 |
| 201 | in a way that supports your desired quality of life? | 支持你理想的生活质量? |
| 202 | And you know what the beautiful thing about meaning is? | 你知道意义是什么吗? |
| 203 | The beautiful thing about alignment? | 校正的美丽之处? |
| 204 | There's no one answer. | 无人答. |
| 205 | No two people's definitions are the same. | 无二众生定义同. |
| 206 | I don't know what's right for you. | 我不知道什么是适合你的。 |
| 207 | I'm still trying to figure out what's right for myself. | 仍欲解其义. |
| 208 | 现在黛比,她开始了GoldieBlox | |
| 209 | because of the discrimination that she faced | 由于她面临歧视 |
| 210 | as one of the only female engineering students | 作为唯一的女工科学生之一 |
| 211 | at Stanford University. | 在斯坦福大学 |
| 212 | Ted started Money Think because when he was growing up in Chicago, | 泰德开始赚钱了 想想因为他在芝加哥长大时 |
| 213 | he realized he had a lot of opportunities due to his privilege | 他意识到由于他的特权 他有很多机会 |
| 214 | that his peers simply didn't have. | 他的同龄人根本就没有 |
| 215 | And Tom started Rising Tide Car Wash | 汤姆开始洗车 |
| 216 | because he saw how hard it was for his own brother to find a job | 因为他看到自己的哥哥很难找到工作 |
| 217 | because his own brother has autism. | 因为他的哥哥有自闭症 |
| 218 | So they had a personal connection to their work, | 所以他们与自己的工作有个人联系 |
| 219 | meaning is personal. | 意思是个人的。 |
| 220 | So what makes you tick? | 那么,是什么让你滴答? |
| 221 | Not your parents, not your boss, not your friends on Facebook. | 不是你父母 也不是你的老板 也不是脸书上的朋友 |
| 222 | What makes you tick? | 什么让你抽搐? |
| 223 | Why are you here? | 你为什么在这里? |
| 224 | How will you create your own path? | 你怎么创造自己的道路? |
| 225 | And the third lesson I learned is that you have to start hustling. | 我学到的第三个教训是 你必须开始胡思乱想。 |
| 226 | You have to start hustling with intention. | 你必须开始胡思乱想 |
| 227 | You have to start hustling with purpose. | 你必须开始有目的的胡思乱想 |
| 228 | Now a lot of people like to call our generation lazy, | 现在很多人都说我们这代人懒惰 |
| 229 | the lazy generation. | 懒惰的一代。 |
| 230 | It's like, are you kidding me? | 你开玩笑吧? |
| 231 | Lazy? | 懒惰? |
| 232 | I've been working for 10 years since college | 大学以来我工作了十年 |
| 233 | and I still owe Sally Mae $10,000 in student loans. | 我还欠莎莉梅一万元的学生贷款 |
| 234 | So Sally Mae, if I ever see you on Tinder, I'm swiping left. | 莎莉·梅 如果我在Tinder上看到你 我就走人了 |
| 235 | Now Debbie and Ted and Tom, they weren't working four hours a week. | 现在黛比、泰德和汤姆 他们每周不工作四个小时 |
| 236 | They were working 40, 50, 60 hours a week on something they cared about. | 他们每周工作40、50、60小时 研究他们关心的事情。 |
| 237 | Now why would you want to automate something that brings you joy? | 现在,你为什么想要自动化的东西 让你高兴? |
| 238 | Why would you want to automate something that impacts the world, | 你为什么想要 自动化的东西 影响世界, |
| 239 | that impacts others? | 影响他人? |
| 240 | These people weren't automating, they were hustling. | 这些人不是在自动化,而是在胡闹。 |
| 241 | They were working hard on something that matters. | 他们正在努力解决一些很重要的事情。 |
| 242 | I was working four different jobs when I was writing a book | 我写书的时候 做了四个不同的工作 |
| 243 | because I had to pay rent and pay my loans. | 因为我要付房租和贷款 |
| 244 | Now a lot of people hear my story and they're like, | 现在很多人听到我的故事,他们喜欢, |
| 245 | that's it, I've got to quit my job tomorrow, I'm out, peace. | 就这样,我明天要辞掉工作,我不干了,和平 |
| 246 | That's not my message, that's not what I'm saying. | 这不是我的信息,我不是这个意思。 |
| 247 | Now a lot of you may have heard of Debbie and heard of GoldieBlox, | 现在你们中很多人可能听说过黛比 也听说过戈尔迪·布洛克斯 |
| 248 | but what you might not know is that she had a full-time job | 但你可能不知道的是 她有全职工作 |
| 249 | while she was starting that company. | 在她创办公司时 |
| 250 | She was working as the marketing director for a jewelry company in San Francisco. | 她在旧金山的一家珠宝公司担任营销总监. |
| 251 | She stayed on that job for nine months after she had the idea for GoldieBlox. | 在她为GoldieBlox想到主意后,她在这工作了九个月. |
| 252 | Why? | 为什么? |
| 253 | Well first of all, she knew she was going to start her own business | 首先 她知道自己要创业 |
| 254 | so she needed to save money, very practical reason. | 所以她需要节省钱 非常实际的理由 |
| 255 | But second of all, she felt like she was getting paid to go to business school. | 但是,第二,她觉得像 得到报酬去商学院。 |
| 256 | Rather than pay a lot of money to go get an MBA, | 而不是花很多钱去买MBA |
| 257 | she was earning a paycheck and learning invaluable skills | 她挣到薪水,学习宝贵的技能 |
| 258 | in marketing, retail, distribution, sales, | 在销售、零售、分销、销售、 |
| 259 | that she knew she'd be able to apply to her own business | 她知道她可以申请自己的生意 |
| 260 | when she left and started her own company. | 当她离开并创办自己的公司。 |
| 261 | So you don't have to quit your job tomorrow. | 你明天就不用辞职了 |
| 262 | Matter of fact, you don't even need to have a job. | 事实上 你根本不需要工作 |
| 263 | I'm going to tell the story of my friend Bernat. | 我要讲我的朋友伯纳特的故事 |
| 264 | So I met this crazy guy once in San Francisco on biking home, | 所以我在旧金山见过一个疯子 骑自行车回家 |
| 265 | and all of a sudden this stranger starts talking to me. | 突然这个陌生人开始跟我说话 |
| 266 | He's like, hey man, how's your day going? | 他就像,嘿,你好吗? |
| 267 | I was like, I don't know, leave me alone, I don't know you. | 我当时想,我不知道,让我一个人,我不认识你。 |
| 268 | He keeps biking alongside me. | 他一直跟我一起骑自行车 |
| 269 | He's like, hey man, I just got here from Spain, I'm looking for a job. | 他就像,嘿,我刚从西班牙来, 我在找工作。 |
| 270 | I was like, I don't know you, leave me alone. | 我当时想,我不认识你,别烦我 |
| 271 | He keeps biking alongside me and he's like, | 他一直跟着我骑自行车,他喜欢, |
| 272 | hey, I just moved here from Barcelona. | 我刚从巴塞罗那搬来 |
| 273 | I'm a UX, UI designer, a really good designer. | 我是一个UX,UI设计师, 一个非常好的设计师。 |
| 274 | I'm trying to find a job. | 我试着找份工作。 |
| 275 | I've had six interviews this week. | 这个星期我接受了六次采访 |
| 276 | If I don't get a job, I have to go back to Spain. | 如果我找不到工作,我必须回西班牙 |
| 277 | I need a work visa to stay here in the United States. | 我需要工作签证才能留在美国 |
| 278 | There's not that many jobs in Spain. | 西班牙没有那么多工作 |
| 279 | I really want to stay. | 我真的想留下来 |
| 280 | And I was like, well, actually, you know, my best friend was just living in Barcelona. | 我当时想,实际上,你知道, 我最好的朋友只是住在巴塞罗那。 |
| 281 | It's a beautiful city. | 其城颇美. |
| 282 | You know, let me check out your website. | 让我查查你的网站 |
| 283 | And he was like, well, what are you working on? | 他就像,嗯, 你在忙什么? |
| 284 | And I was like, well, I'm writing this book. | 我在写这本书 |
| 285 | And he goes, well, do you have a cover designer? | 他去,好了,你有 一个封面设计师? |
| 286 | I was like, no, not yet. | 我当时想,不,还没有。 |
| 287 | So I go home, I check out his website. | 所以我回家 看看他的网站 |
| 288 | I was like, wow, this guy's a pretty good designer. | 我当时想,哇,这家伙是一个相当不错的设计师。 |
| 289 | This guy's pretty kick ass. | 这家伙的漂亮屁股。 |
| 290 | He's awesome. | 他很厉害 |
| 291 | So I was like, hey, Bernat, maybe you could design my book cover. | 所以我想,嘿,伯纳特, 也许你可以设计我的书封面。 |
| 292 | And then I post on Facebook like, hey, just met this crazy guy, Bernat, from Barcelona. | 然后我在脸书上发帖说,嘿, 刚遇到一个疯狂的家伙,伯纳特,来自巴塞罗那。 |
| 293 | Does anyone need a designer? | 有人需要设计师吗? |
| 294 | I know a lot of people in startups. | 我认识很多创业者 |
| 295 | Does anyone need a designer? | 有人需要设计师吗? |
| 296 | Maybe Bernat can help you. | 也许伯纳特能帮你 |
| 297 | About five minutes later, my friend Yi comments. | 大约五分钟后,我的朋友易评论. |
| 298 | He's like, actually, my friends are starting the startup in Palo Alto. | 他就像,实际上,我的朋友 开始启动在帕洛阿尔托。 |
| 299 | I think there's like three of them. | 我想他们有3个 |
| 300 | They don't really know what they're doing. | 他们真的不知道自己在做什么 |
| 301 | They're figuring out. | 他们正在想 |
| 302 | They could use a designer. | 他们需要设计师 |
| 303 | So Bernat meets with this team. | 因此伯纳特与这个团队相遇. |
| 304 | They hit it off. | 他们打它了。 |
| 305 | He gets hired as their lead designer. | 他受雇为他们的首席设计师。 |
| 306 | It's like a four-person team. | 如四人队. |
| 307 | He's super excited. | 他超兴奋的 |
| 308 | He texts me. | 他发短信给我 |
| 309 | He's like, Smiley, thank you. | 他就像,笑脸,谢谢你。 |
| 310 | I got this job. | 我得到了这份工作。 |
| 311 | And I was like, you know, thank you, man. | 而我就像,你知道,谢谢你,伙计。 |
| 312 | You made the ask. | 是你问的 |
| 313 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 314 | So it goes by. | 故曰顺行. |
| 315 | He helps me design this book cover. | 他帮我设计这本书封面 |
| 316 | And then about six, seven months later, I get a text from Bernat. | 大约6、7个月后,我收到伯纳特的短信。 |
| 317 | He's like, Smiley, I'm taking you out to dinner anywhere you want to go. | 他喜欢,笑脸,我带你出去 晚餐任何地方你想去。 |
| 318 | I was like, awesome. | 我当时很赞 |
| 319 | I want to get taken out to dinner. | 我想出去吃饭 |
| 320 | Great. | 不错 |
| 321 | So we go out to dinner. | 我们出去吃晚饭 |
| 322 | I'm like, what's going on, man? | 我像,怎么了,伙计? |
| 323 | What's up? | 这是怎么回事? |
| 324 | Like, why are you taking me out to dinner? | 喜欢,为什么你带我出去吃饭? |
| 325 | You know, like I have some money. | 你知道,像我有一些钱。 |
| 326 | I'm a writer. | 我是一个作家。 |
| 327 | I'm kind of mostly broke, but we can split the check or something. | 我大部分都破产了 但我们可以分钱什么的 |
| 328 | And he goes, well, the company, you know, the company I started working for after I | 他去,好了,公司,你知道, 公司我开始工作后 |
| 329 | met you. | 认识你。 |
| 330 | I was like, yeah. | 我很喜欢,是的。 |
| 331 | They had just been acquired by Yahoo for $80 million. | 他们刚刚被雅虎以8000万美元收购. |
| 332 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 333 | And it's a small team. | 并是小队. |
| 334 | So Bernat had equity. | 所以伯纳特有股权 |
| 335 | It was like a four or five person team. | 这就像一个四五个人团队。 |
| 336 | He was one of the first people on the team. | 他是球队中最早的人之一. |
| 337 | And he was thanking me. | 他在感谢我 |
| 338 | And I was like, you should thank yourself. | 我当时想,你应该感谢自己。 |
| 339 | You know why? | 你知道为什么吗? |
| 340 | Because Bernat made the ask. | 因为伯纳特问了 |
| 341 | He talked to a random stranger on a bicycle in a city that he didn't live in, in a country | 他在一个他不住的城市里 和一个骑自行车的陌生人交谈过 |
| 342 | that he's not even from. | 他甚至不是从。 |
| 343 | He made the ask. | 他问了。 |
| 344 | So do not let being a beginner limit your hustle. | 所以不要让初学者 限制你的动作。 |
| 345 | Take a risk. | 冒险吧 |
| 346 | Sign up for the class. | 报名上课. |
| 347 | Volunteer. | 志愿兵. |
| 348 | Go abroad. | 到国外去 |
| 349 | Work abroad. | 在国外工作。 |
| 350 | Launch the crowdfunding campaign. | 发起群众资助运动. |
| 351 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 352 | Start the blog. | 启动博客. |
| 353 | Build that website. | 建立这个网站。 |
| 354 | Make the ask. | 作么生问. |
| 355 | People will support you when you start working with purpose. | 当你开始有目的地工作的时候 人们会支持你 |
| 356 | Now, this isn't about finding your one calling or your one purpose because I don't think that | 现在,这不是 寻找你的一个呼叫或你的目的 因为我不认为 |
| 357 | that's possible. | 这是可能的。 |
| 358 | I think I've already had eight callings and I'm only 31, which is not that old, I swear. | 我想我已经打了八通电话了 我只有31岁了,我发誓 |
| 359 | But I am saying that if you find believers now, if you stop comparing yourself to others | 但我要说,如果你现在找到信徒, 如果你不再把自己比作别人 |
| 360 | now, and if you hustle to pursue what is meaningful to you now, you will change your | 现在,如果你拼命去追求 现在对你有意义的,你会改变你的 |
| 361 | life, you will change the lives of others, and you will change the world. | 生活,你会改变别人的生活, 你会改变世界。 |
| 362 | Now, people like Debbie and Ted and Tom changed my life. | 现在,像黛比,泰德和汤姆这样的人改变了我的生活. |
| 363 | They're the only reason I'm standing here right now and not sitting at home on Facebook | 我之所以站在这里 却不能坐在脸书上 |
| 364 | depressed, worrying about what all my friends are doing, worrying about my friend, the corporate | 忧郁,担心我的朋友在做什么 担心我的朋友,公司 |
| 365 | lawyer that doesn't even want to be a corporate lawyer. | 律师甚至不想成为公司律师 |
| 366 | Because when you pursue meaningful work, you inspire others to as well. | 因为当你追求有意义的工作时,你也会激励其他人。 |
| 367 | You ensure that the workforce of the future will be spending its days empowering girls | 你保证未来的劳动大军 将花费在赋予女孩权力的日子里 |
| 368 | to become engineers, teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship to urban youth, | 成为工程师,向城市青年传授金融知识和创业能力, |
| 369 | employing people with disabilities, and ensuring that every single person in this room | 雇用残疾人,并确保本会议室的每一个人 |
| 370 | and those not in this room reaches their full potential. | 和那些不在这个房间里的人 充分发挥他们的潜力。 |
| 371 | So you can call us idealistic. | 所以你可以叫我们理想主义 |
| 372 | You can certainly call me idealistic. | 你当然可以叫我理想主义。 |
| 373 | I mean, my name is Smiley. | 我的意思是,我的名字是笑脸。 |
| 374 | But we are not the me, me, me generation. | 但我们不是我,我,我这一代人。 |
| 375 | We are the purpose generation. | 我们是目的的一代。 |
| 376 | And we will be engaged with our work because we have to. | 我们将参与我们的工作,因为我们必须这样做。 |
| 377 | The challenges facing our generation are simply too serious to ignore. | 我们这一代人面临的挑战太严重,不容忽视。 |
| 378 | They're too serious to only worry about on the weekend or too serious to only worry about after 5 p.m. | 他们太认真了,不能在周末担心,也不能在下午5点以后担心. |
| 379 | We can't be stuck in a high school crisis, a quarter life crisis, a third life crisis, or a midlife crisis. | 我们不能陷入高中危机,四分之一生活危机,第三生活危机,或中年危机. |
| 380 | We can't climb the career ladder to nowhere. | 我们不能爬上职业阶梯到任何地方。 |
| 381 | The stakes are too damn high. | 赌注太高了 |
| 382 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:01 | I did everything I was supposed to do. | 我做了我应该做的 |
| 0:03 | I got good grades in high school. | 我高中成绩不错 |
| 0:05 | I took AP classes. | 我上过AP课 |
| 0:07 | I went to a good college. | 我去了一所好大学。 |
| 0:08 | I got a great job. | 我得到了一个伟大的工作。 |
| 0:10 | I climbed the career ladder. | 我爬上了职业阶梯。 |
| 0:12 | On paper, I had it all. | 在纸上,我得到了这一切。 |
| 0:14 | I was making $70,000 a year at the age of 28. | 我28岁时每年赚7万块 |
| 0:18 | I was working for the federal government. | 我在联邦政府工作 |
| 0:19 | I had health care. | 我得到了医疗保健。 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I did everything I was supposed to do. | 我做了我应该做的 |
| 2 | I got good grades in high school. | 我高中成绩不错 |
| 3 | I took AP classes. | 我上过AP课 |
| 4 | I went to a good college. | 我去了一所好大学。 |
| 5 | I got a great job. | 我得到了一个伟大的工作。 |
| 6 | I climbed the career ladder. | 我爬上了职业阶梯。 |
| 7 | On paper, I had it all. | 在纸上,我得到了这一切。 |
| 8 | I was making $70,000 a year at the age of 28. | 我28岁时每年赚7万块 |
| 9 | I was working for the federal government. | 我在联邦政府工作 |
| 10 | I had health care. | 我得到了医疗保健。 |
| 11 | I had benefits. | 我有好处。 |
| 12 | I had job security. | 我有工作保障。 |
| 13 | You literally can't get fired from working for the government. | 你绝对不能因为为政府工作而被解雇 |
| 14 | Trust me, there are people that should. | 相信我 有些人应该这么做 |
| 15 | My parents were impressed. | 我父母很惊讶 |
| 16 | My friends were impressed. | 我的朋友们都很感动 |
| 17 | My boss told me I was doing a great job. | 我老板说我做得很好 |
| 18 | I'd go to happy hour and tell everyone I was the special assistant to the director of global operations at the US Peace Corps, | 我会去快乐的时刻告诉大家 我是美国和平队全球行动主任的特别助理 |
| 19 | and everyone thought that was so cool. | 大家都觉得这很酷 |
| 20 | They asked for my business card. | 他们要我的名片 |
| 21 | I got to sit in on meetings at the White House. | 我得参加白宫的会议 |
| 22 | Everything was perfect about my job, except for one tiny kind of important thing. | 除了一件小事之外 我的工作是完美的 |
| 23 | I was miserable. | 我很悲惨。 |
| 24 | How did I know I was miserable? | 我怎么知道我很悲惨? |
| 25 | Every single morning when my alarm would go off at 630 in the morning to NPR, | 每天早上 当我的警报会在早上6点30分响到NPR时 |
| 26 | I'd feel a shooting pain go up and down my back. | 我总觉得枪伤会上下 |
| 27 | I felt this pain when I was getting out of bed, | 我下床时感觉很痛苦 |
| 28 | when I was brushing my teeth, | 当我刷牙, |
| 29 | when I was getting dressed and putting on my shirt and tie, | 当我穿好衣服 穿上衬衫和领带时 |
| 30 | when I was taking the bus down to work, | 当我搭公交车去上班时 |
| 31 | when I scanned my ID badge in at the office, | 我在办公室扫描身份证时 |
| 32 | when I rode up the elevator to my desk, | 当我骑电梯到我的办公桌, |
| 33 | when I was sitting at my desk typing memos, | 当我坐在我的桌子打字备忘录, |
| 34 | when my boss would invite me in for meetings and we'd talk about best practices, | 当我的老板邀请我去开会 我们来谈谈最佳做法 |
| 35 | and when my boss would email me every single night on my Blackberry at 10 p.m. | 我老板每晚10点都会用黑莓发邮件给我 |
| 36 | The pain was so bad, I developed shingles on my side. | 痛苦是如此糟糕, 我发展了丝带在我身边。 |
| 37 | Shingles is a nerve disease common around people over the age of 70, not 20-somethings. | Shingles是一种常见于70岁以上人群的神经疾病,而不是20-某种程度. |
| 38 | This was the pain of confusion. | 这是混乱的痛苦。 |
| 39 | It was the pain of climbing this career ladder to success and realizing that I was nowhere. | 它的痛苦是攀登这个事业阶梯 成功并意识到我无处不在。 |
| 40 | I was somewhere I didn't want to be. | 我本来不想去的地方 |
| 41 | I was stuck in a quarter-life crisis. | 我被困在半生危机中 |
| 42 | 我花了很多时间在Facebook上, 过度在FOMO, | |
| 43 | fear of missing out, comparing myself to what my friends were doing. | 害怕失手 把自己和我的朋友们做的事比起来 |
| 44 | So there was my friend going off to business school, | 我朋友去商学院了 |
| 45 | and I was like, maybe I should get my MBA. | 我当时想, 也许我应该得到我的MBA。 |
| 46 | And there was my friend going to teach at a charter school, | 我朋友要去包机学校教书 |
| 47 | and I was like, maybe I should go work at a charter school. | 我当时想,也许我应该去 特许学校工作。 |
| 48 | And there was my friend opening a food truck, | 我朋友开了一辆餐车 |
| 49 | and I was like, maybe I should open a food truck, | 我当时想, 也许我应该开一辆餐车, |
| 50 | even though I'm an awful driver and a really bad cook. | 虽然我是一个糟糕的司机 和非常糟糕的厨师。 |
| 51 | And so there was a buddy of mine, | 所以我有个朋友 |
| 52 | he'd already graduated from one of the top law schools in the country, | 他已经从全国顶尖法学院毕业了 |
| 53 | got this amazing job at one of the top corporate firms making well over six figures. | 在最顶尖的公司之一 得到了这份惊人的工作 超过六位数字。 |
| 54 | And he's like, he's got it all figured out. | 且道:"他个个个个个个个都解了. |
| 55 | And there he is traveling with his fiance, | 他和他的未婚夫一起旅行, |
| 56 | traveling with his girlfriend in Peru, getting engaged at sunset in front of Machu Picchu. | 与女友在秘鲁旅行,在马丘比丘面前的日落时订婚. |
| 57 | And I'm like, man, this guy's got it all figured out. | 而我喜欢,男人,这家伙已经得到了这一切。 |
| 58 | He's got this amazing job. | 他有这个惊人的工作。 |
| 59 | He's already going to get married. | 他已经要结婚了 |
| 60 | He's at Machu Picchu. | 他在马丘比丘. |
| 61 | I hate my job. | 我讨厌我的工作 |
| 62 | I hate my life. | 我讨厌我的生活。 |
| 63 | I can't even get a date on OkCupid. | 我连奥库皮德的约会都找不到 |
| 64 | My life is ruined. | 我的生活毁了。 |
| 65 | I'm a goner. | 我是一个死。 |
| 66 | And it was only when I met other young people going through the exact same thing I was | 直到我遇到其他的年轻人 经历同样的事情 |
| 67 | that I was able to turn my quarter-life crisis into a breakthrough. | 我得以把生活危机变成突破 |
| 68 | So this talk's going to teach you a few lessons I learned on my journey | 所以这次演讲会给你一些教训 我在旅途中学到的 |
| 69 | that can help anyone that's stuck in a quarter-life crisis | 能帮助任何陷入四分之一生命危机的人 |
| 70 | or help all of you avoid your quarter-life crisis and find meaningful work. | 或帮助大家避免你 四分之一生命的危机 找到有意义的工作。 |
| 71 | So the first lesson I learned, find believers. | 因此,我学到的第一个教训是找到信徒。 |
| 72 | Surround yourself with people that believe in the beauty of their dreams. | 与信其梦之美者围绕. |
| 73 | Because I used to come home in D.C. every night to my roommate, Dan. | 因为我以前每晚都会回到华盛顿 我的室友丹 |
| 74 | And I'd be like, Dan, I hate my job. | 而我会喜欢,丹,我讨厌我的工作。 |
| 75 | I don't want to do this anymore. | 我不想再这样了 |
| 76 | I want to move across the country. | 我想搬到全国各地去 |
| 77 | I want to live in San Francisco. | 我想住在旧金山 |
| 78 | I've always wanted to live there. | 我一直想住在这里。 |
| 79 | I want to start writing. | 我想开始写作。 |
| 80 | I want to start being a creative. | 我想开始成为一个创意。 |
| 81 | I want to start supporting social entrepreneurs. | 我想开始支持社会企业家。 |
| 82 | I want to start supporting young people that are going after their dreams. | 我想开始支持那些追求梦想的年轻人。 |
| 83 | And Dan would look at me, stare, roll his eyes, take a swig of beer, say, smiley, suck it up. | 和丹会看着我, 凝视, 滚他的眼睛, 喝一喝啤酒, 说,微笑,吸它。 |
| 84 | Everyone hates their job. | 每个人都讨厌他们的工作。 |
| 85 | It's part of life. | 谓众生之分. |
| 86 | And I was like, man, you know, that's kind of brutal. | 我当时想,伙计,你知道, 这有点残忍。 |
| 87 | I was 28 at the time, which is old, but it's not that old. | 当时我28岁,虽然很老,但没那么老. |
| 88 | I didn't really spend the next 40 years of my life depressed. | 接下来的40年里,我并没有真正消沉 |
| 89 | But you know what? | 但你知道吗? |
| 90 | The majority of the world thinks like Dan. | 世人多以为丹. |
| 91 | Seventy percent of Americans are disengaged at their jobs. | 70%的美国人失业了 |
| 92 | Seventy percent. | 百分之七十. 师曰. |
| 93 | One-fifth of those people are so disengaged, | 这些人中有五分之一如此脱离 |
| 94 | they're actively undermining their coworkers' work. | 他们正在积极破坏同事的工作。 |
| 95 | They're literally getting paid to mess things up for the company that they work for. | 他们真的得到工资来搞乱他们为公司工作的事情。 |
| 96 | And this is a shame. | 这真可惜 |
| 97 | It's a shame because millions of people wake up every day unfulfilled, depressed, | 可惜的是,每天都有数百万人 醒来时没有实现,沮丧, |
| 98 | not showing up fully for themselves, their families, their communities, or the world at large. | 没有为自己、家人、社区或整个世界充分展示。 |
| 99 | So then I met Believers. | 于是我遇见了信徒。 |
| 100 | I went to a leadership program that brings together 20-somethings | 我参加了一个领导班子 召集了20多个人 |
| 101 | that are interested in creating social change, | 有兴趣创造社会变革, |
| 102 | that are interested in social entrepreneurship, | 对社会创业感兴趣的人, |
| 103 | that are interested in using business for good. | 有兴趣把生意永远利用 |
| 104 | The program was called Starting Block. | 节目名为"开始块". |
| 105 | And at Starting Block, I met Believers. | 在开始街区,我遇到了信徒。 |
| 106 | I met people like Debbie. | 我遇见了黛比这样的人 |
| 107 | 黛比在启动Goldie Blocks, | |
| 108 | a toy company that teaches young girls' engineering skills. | 一个玩具公司 教年轻女孩的工程技能。 |
| 109 | I met people like Ted. | 我遇见了泰德这样的人 |
| 110 | Ted started Money Think, | 泰德开始赚钱了 考虑一下 |
| 111 | which is a nonprofit that teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship to urban youth. | 它是一个非营利组织,向城市青年传授金融知识和创业能力。 |
| 112 | I met people like Tom. | 我遇见了汤姆这样的人 |
| 113 | Tom started Rising Tide Car Wash, | 汤姆开始涨潮车洗, |
| 114 | a small business in South Florida with his father that employs people with autism. | 和父亲在南佛罗里达的一家小生意 雇佣自闭症患者 |
| 115 | So I met these Believers, and they're like, | 于是我遇见了这些信徒, 他们喜欢, |
| 116 | wait a second, wait a second, Smiley. | 等等,等一下,笑脸 |
| 117 | You want to leave D.C. | 你想离开华盛顿 |
| 118 | You want to move to San Francisco. | 你想搬到旧金山去 |
| 119 | You want to start writing. | 你想开始写作。 |
| 120 | You want to start supporting social entrepreneurs. | 你想开始支持社会企业家。 |
| 121 | You have to do that. | 你必须这样做。 |
| 122 | The world needs you to do that. | 世界需要你这样做。 |
| 123 | Because a crazy thing happens when you find Believers. | 因为当你找到信徒时 会发生一件疯狂的事 |
| 124 | You find accountability. | 你找到责任。 |
| 125 | Now normally in the real world, you tell someone you're going to quit your job, | 现在通常在现实世界, 你告诉别人,你要去辞掉你的工作, |
| 126 | and they're like, yeah, dude, you said that like six months ago. | 他们就像,是的,伙计,你说的 像六个月前。 |
| 127 | Everyone's going to quit their job. | 皆悉辞去职. |
| 128 | Whatever, you're not going to do it. | 不管怎么样,你不会这样做的。 |
| 129 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 130 | You tell someone you're going to write a book, | 你告诉别人你会写一本书, |
| 131 | and they're like, everyone's writing a book. | 他们喜欢,每个人都在写一本书。 |
| 132 | I'll believe it when I see it. | 一见便信. |
| 133 | You'll never do it. | 你永远不会这样做。 |
| 134 | Not when you tell Believers. | 当你告诉信道者的时候, |
| 135 | Because when you tell Believers, you have accountability. | 因为当你告诉信士们的时候,你们是负责任的。 |
| 136 | I told my buddy Evan that I was going to quit my job at Starting Block. | 我跟我的朋友埃文说 我要辞去在开始街区的工作 |
| 137 | And you know what he asked me? | 你知道他问我什么吗? |
| 138 | One simple question. | 一个简单的问题。 |
| 139 | When? | 什么时候? |
| 140 | When are you going to have the talk with your boss? | 你什么时候跟你老板谈? |
| 141 | And he texted me every single week after that program. | 节目结束后他每周给我发短信 |
| 142 | Have you had the talk with your boss yet? | 你跟老板谈过了吗? |
| 143 | I'd be in meetings with senior officials at the White House getting texts and calls from this guy. | 我会和白宫的高级官员见面 得到他发来的短信和电话 |
| 144 | I was like, you've got to stop calling me, man. | 我当时想,你必须停止给我打电话,伙计。 |
| 145 | You're going to get me arrested. | 你会让我被捕的 |
| 146 | But you know what? | 但你知道吗? |
| 147 | The only reason I did have that talk with my boss, | 我和老板谈话的唯一原因 |
| 148 | the only reason I did quit my job, | 我辞职的唯一原因 |
| 149 | the only reason I did move across the country to a city I wanted to live in, | 我搬到一个我想居住的城市的唯一原因 |
| 150 | the only reason I did write a book, | 我写书的唯一原因 |
| 151 | the only reason I did start supporting social entrepreneurs, | 我开始支持社会企业家的唯一原因 |
| 152 | and the only reason I'm standing here right now is because people like Evan held me accountable. | 我现在站在这里的唯一原因 是因为像埃文这样的人让我负责 |
| 153 | Because when you find Believers, you find accountability. | 因为当你们发现信士们的时候,你们必定要敬畏。 |
| 154 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 155 | Now people like Debbie and Ted and Tom weren't talking about making lots of money. | 现在,像黛比,泰德和汤姆这样的人 并没有谈论赚很多钱。 |
| 156 | They weren't talking about rising up the corporate ladder. | 他们不是在说要升职 |
| 157 | 他们不是在说在TechCrunch或Fast公司上演 | |
| 158 | They were talking about making the world more innovative, compassionate, and sustainable. | 他们正在谈论使世界更加创新、富有同情心和可持续。 |
| 159 | They were talking about using their access, their privilege, and their skills | 他们谈论利用他们的进入、特权和技能 |
| 160 | to empower people less fortunate than them. | 赋予比他们更幸运的人权力。 |
| 161 | Because the success symbol for my generation, for our generation, | 因为我这一代人的成功象征 |
| 162 | isn't climbing the career ladder. | 不是攀登职业阶梯。 |
| 163 | It's doing work that matters. | 它的工作才是关键 |
| 164 | So we're not the me, me, me generation. | 所以,我们不是 我,我,我的世代。 |
| 165 | Fifty percent of Millennials, that's most of you in this room, | 百分之五十的千禧年, 这是你们大多数在这个房间, |
| 166 | would take a pay cut to find work that matches their values. | 要找到符合他们价值的工作 需要削减工资 |
| 167 | Ninety percent of Millennials want to use their skills for good. | 90%的千禧年人希望将自己的技能用于善用. |
| 168 | Despite unprecedented levels of unemployment and student debt, | 尽管失业和学生债务水平前所未有, |
| 169 | our generation wants to work with purpose. | 我们这一代人希望有目的地工作。 |
| 170 | So how do you actually find meaningful work? | 你怎么找到有意义的工作? |
| 171 | Well, the second lesson I learned is that you have to stop comparing yourself to others | 好吧,我学到的第二个教训是,你必须停止 比较自己和其他人 |
| 172 | and start pursuing what is meaningful to you. | 开始追求对你们有意义的东西 |
| 173 | So I went back and I interviewed my friend, the corporate lawyer, | 于是我回去采访我的朋友 公司律师 |
| 174 | that had it all figured out, that was Mary, that got engaged at Machu Picchu. | 玛丽在马丘比丘订婚 |
| 175 | I was like, man, you got this great job, you're making all this money. | 我当时想,伙计,你得到了这个伟大的工作, 你赚了这么多钱。 |
| 176 | What's the secret? | 有什么秘密吗? |
| 177 | You know, what's the secret? | 你知道,有什么秘密吗? |
| 178 | And you know what he told me? | 你知道他告诉我什么吗? |
| 179 | He told me that after three years of law school, | 他告诉我 法学院三年后 |
| 180 | hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt, | 数十万美元的学生债务, |
| 181 | and now making all this money at the corporate firm, | 现在在公司赚了这么多钱 |
| 182 | that he was miserable as a corporate lawyer. | 作为公司律师他很痛苦 |
| 183 | And that he was going to go back to grad school at the age of 30 | 他30岁时要回研究生院 |
| 184 | to become a high school social studies teacher. | 成为高中社会学教师。 |
| 185 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 186 | Which is great for him. | 这对他很好 |
| 187 | But what's the lesson? | 但有何教训? |
| 188 | What's the lesson? | 什么是教训? |
| 189 | Nobody knows what they're doing. | 没有人知道他们在做什么。 |
| 190 | Nobody has it figured out. | 没人知道 |
| 191 | The grass is always greener. | 草常绿. |
| 192 | Instead of comparing yourself to others, | 而不是把自己和别人比起来 |
| 193 | instead of comparing yourself to everyone on Facebook, | 而不是把自己和Facebook上的每个人比起来 |
| 194 | start figuring out what it is you want. | 开始想清楚你想要什么 |
| 195 | Don't climb the career ladder to nowhere. | 别爬事业梯子到无处. |
| 196 | Build a career that matters to you. | 建立对你重要的事业. |
| 197 | So why are you here? | 那你为什么来这里? |
| 198 | What do you want to do for others? | 你想为别人做什么? |
| 199 | How can you align your own gifts, your unique gifts, | 你如何调整自己的礼物, 你独特的礼物, |
| 200 | with the impact you want to have on the world | 和你想对世界的影响 |
| 201 | in a way that supports your desired quality of life? | 支持你理想的生活质量? |
| 202 | And you know what the beautiful thing about meaning is? | 你知道意义是什么吗? |
| 203 | The beautiful thing about alignment? | 校正的美丽之处? |
| 204 | There's no one answer. | 无人答. |
| 205 | No two people's definitions are the same. | 无二众生定义同. |
| 206 | I don't know what's right for you. | 我不知道什么是适合你的。 |
| 207 | I'm still trying to figure out what's right for myself. | 仍欲解其义. |
| 208 | 现在黛比,她开始了GoldieBlox | |
| 209 | because of the discrimination that she faced | 由于她面临歧视 |
| 210 | as one of the only female engineering students | 作为唯一的女工科学生之一 |
| 211 | at Stanford University. | 在斯坦福大学 |
| 212 | Ted started Money Think because when he was growing up in Chicago, | 泰德开始赚钱了 想想因为他在芝加哥长大时 |
| 213 | he realized he had a lot of opportunities due to his privilege | 他意识到由于他的特权 他有很多机会 |
| 214 | that his peers simply didn't have. | 他的同龄人根本就没有 |
| 215 | And Tom started Rising Tide Car Wash | 汤姆开始洗车 |
| 216 | because he saw how hard it was for his own brother to find a job | 因为他看到自己的哥哥很难找到工作 |
| 217 | because his own brother has autism. | 因为他的哥哥有自闭症 |
| 218 | So they had a personal connection to their work, | 所以他们与自己的工作有个人联系 |
| 219 | meaning is personal. | 意思是个人的。 |
| 220 | So what makes you tick? | 那么,是什么让你滴答? |
| 221 | Not your parents, not your boss, not your friends on Facebook. | 不是你父母 也不是你的老板 也不是脸书上的朋友 |
| 222 | What makes you tick? | 什么让你抽搐? |
| 223 | Why are you here? | 你为什么在这里? |
| 224 | How will you create your own path? | 你怎么创造自己的道路? |
| 225 | And the third lesson I learned is that you have to start hustling. | 我学到的第三个教训是 你必须开始胡思乱想。 |
| 226 | You have to start hustling with intention. | 你必须开始胡思乱想 |
| 227 | You have to start hustling with purpose. | 你必须开始有目的的胡思乱想 |
| 228 | Now a lot of people like to call our generation lazy, | 现在很多人都说我们这代人懒惰 |
| 229 | the lazy generation. | 懒惰的一代。 |
| 230 | It's like, are you kidding me? | 你开玩笑吧? |
| 231 | Lazy? | 懒惰? |
| 232 | I've been working for 10 years since college | 大学以来我工作了十年 |
| 233 | and I still owe Sally Mae $10,000 in student loans. | 我还欠莎莉梅一万元的学生贷款 |
| 234 | So Sally Mae, if I ever see you on Tinder, I'm swiping left. | 莎莉·梅 如果我在Tinder上看到你 我就走人了 |
| 235 | Now Debbie and Ted and Tom, they weren't working four hours a week. | 现在黛比、泰德和汤姆 他们每周不工作四个小时 |
| 236 | They were working 40, 50, 60 hours a week on something they cared about. | 他们每周工作40、50、60小时 研究他们关心的事情。 |
| 237 | Now why would you want to automate something that brings you joy? | 现在,你为什么想要自动化的东西 让你高兴? |
| 238 | Why would you want to automate something that impacts the world, | 你为什么想要 自动化的东西 影响世界, |
| 239 | that impacts others? | 影响他人? |
| 240 | These people weren't automating, they were hustling. | 这些人不是在自动化,而是在胡闹。 |
| 241 | They were working hard on something that matters. | 他们正在努力解决一些很重要的事情。 |
| 242 | I was working four different jobs when I was writing a book | 我写书的时候 做了四个不同的工作 |
| 243 | because I had to pay rent and pay my loans. | 因为我要付房租和贷款 |
| 244 | Now a lot of people hear my story and they're like, | 现在很多人听到我的故事,他们喜欢, |
| 245 | that's it, I've got to quit my job tomorrow, I'm out, peace. | 就这样,我明天要辞掉工作,我不干了,和平 |
| 246 | That's not my message, that's not what I'm saying. | 这不是我的信息,我不是这个意思。 |
| 247 | Now a lot of you may have heard of Debbie and heard of GoldieBlox, | 现在你们中很多人可能听说过黛比 也听说过戈尔迪·布洛克斯 |
| 248 | but what you might not know is that she had a full-time job | 但你可能不知道的是 她有全职工作 |
| 249 | while she was starting that company. | 在她创办公司时 |
| 250 | She was working as the marketing director for a jewelry company in San Francisco. | 她在旧金山的一家珠宝公司担任营销总监. |
| 251 | She stayed on that job for nine months after she had the idea for GoldieBlox. | 在她为GoldieBlox想到主意后,她在这工作了九个月. |
| 252 | Why? | 为什么? |
| 253 | Well first of all, she knew she was going to start her own business | 首先 她知道自己要创业 |
| 254 | so she needed to save money, very practical reason. | 所以她需要节省钱 非常实际的理由 |
| 255 | But second of all, she felt like she was getting paid to go to business school. | 但是,第二,她觉得像 得到报酬去商学院。 |
| 256 | Rather than pay a lot of money to go get an MBA, | 而不是花很多钱去买MBA |
| 257 | she was earning a paycheck and learning invaluable skills | 她挣到薪水,学习宝贵的技能 |
| 258 | in marketing, retail, distribution, sales, | 在销售、零售、分销、销售、 |
| 259 | that she knew she'd be able to apply to her own business | 她知道她可以申请自己的生意 |
| 260 | when she left and started her own company. | 当她离开并创办自己的公司。 |
| 261 | So you don't have to quit your job tomorrow. | 你明天就不用辞职了 |
| 262 | Matter of fact, you don't even need to have a job. | 事实上 你根本不需要工作 |
| 263 | I'm going to tell the story of my friend Bernat. | 我要讲我的朋友伯纳特的故事 |
| 264 | So I met this crazy guy once in San Francisco on biking home, | 所以我在旧金山见过一个疯子 骑自行车回家 |
| 265 | and all of a sudden this stranger starts talking to me. | 突然这个陌生人开始跟我说话 |
| 266 | He's like, hey man, how's your day going? | 他就像,嘿,你好吗? |
| 267 | I was like, I don't know, leave me alone, I don't know you. | 我当时想,我不知道,让我一个人,我不认识你。 |
| 268 | He keeps biking alongside me. | 他一直跟我一起骑自行车 |
| 269 | He's like, hey man, I just got here from Spain, I'm looking for a job. | 他就像,嘿,我刚从西班牙来, 我在找工作。 |
| 270 | I was like, I don't know you, leave me alone. | 我当时想,我不认识你,别烦我 |
| 271 | He keeps biking alongside me and he's like, | 他一直跟着我骑自行车,他喜欢, |
| 272 | hey, I just moved here from Barcelona. | 我刚从巴塞罗那搬来 |
| 273 | I'm a UX, UI designer, a really good designer. | 我是一个UX,UI设计师, 一个非常好的设计师。 |
| 274 | I'm trying to find a job. | 我试着找份工作。 |
| 275 | I've had six interviews this week. | 这个星期我接受了六次采访 |
| 276 | If I don't get a job, I have to go back to Spain. | 如果我找不到工作,我必须回西班牙 |
| 277 | I need a work visa to stay here in the United States. | 我需要工作签证才能留在美国 |
| 278 | There's not that many jobs in Spain. | 西班牙没有那么多工作 |
| 279 | I really want to stay. | 我真的想留下来 |
| 280 | And I was like, well, actually, you know, my best friend was just living in Barcelona. | 我当时想,实际上,你知道, 我最好的朋友只是住在巴塞罗那。 |
| 281 | It's a beautiful city. | 其城颇美. |
| 282 | You know, let me check out your website. | 让我查查你的网站 |
| 283 | And he was like, well, what are you working on? | 他就像,嗯, 你在忙什么? |
| 284 | And I was like, well, I'm writing this book. | 我在写这本书 |
| 285 | And he goes, well, do you have a cover designer? | 他去,好了,你有 一个封面设计师? |
| 286 | I was like, no, not yet. | 我当时想,不,还没有。 |
| 287 | So I go home, I check out his website. | 所以我回家 看看他的网站 |
| 288 | I was like, wow, this guy's a pretty good designer. | 我当时想,哇,这家伙是一个相当不错的设计师。 |
| 289 | This guy's pretty kick ass. | 这家伙的漂亮屁股。 |
| 290 | He's awesome. | 他很厉害 |
| 291 | So I was like, hey, Bernat, maybe you could design my book cover. | 所以我想,嘿,伯纳特, 也许你可以设计我的书封面。 |
| 292 | And then I post on Facebook like, hey, just met this crazy guy, Bernat, from Barcelona. | 然后我在脸书上发帖说,嘿, 刚遇到一个疯狂的家伙,伯纳特,来自巴塞罗那。 |
| 293 | Does anyone need a designer? | 有人需要设计师吗? |
| 294 | I know a lot of people in startups. | 我认识很多创业者 |
| 295 | Does anyone need a designer? | 有人需要设计师吗? |
| 296 | Maybe Bernat can help you. | 也许伯纳特能帮你 |
| 297 | About five minutes later, my friend Yi comments. | 大约五分钟后,我的朋友易评论. |
| 298 | He's like, actually, my friends are starting the startup in Palo Alto. | 他就像,实际上,我的朋友 开始启动在帕洛阿尔托。 |
| 299 | I think there's like three of them. | 我想他们有3个 |
| 300 | They don't really know what they're doing. | 他们真的不知道自己在做什么 |
| 301 | They're figuring out. | 他们正在想 |
| 302 | They could use a designer. | 他们需要设计师 |
| 303 | So Bernat meets with this team. | 因此伯纳特与这个团队相遇. |
| 304 | They hit it off. | 他们打它了。 |
| 305 | He gets hired as their lead designer. | 他受雇为他们的首席设计师。 |
| 306 | It's like a four-person team. | 如四人队. |
| 307 | He's super excited. | 他超兴奋的 |
| 308 | He texts me. | 他发短信给我 |
| 309 | He's like, Smiley, thank you. | 他就像,笑脸,谢谢你。 |
| 310 | I got this job. | 我得到了这份工作。 |
| 311 | And I was like, you know, thank you, man. | 而我就像,你知道,谢谢你,伙计。 |
| 312 | You made the ask. | 是你问的 |
| 313 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 314 | So it goes by. | 故曰顺行. |
| 315 | He helps me design this book cover. | 他帮我设计这本书封面 |
| 316 | And then about six, seven months later, I get a text from Bernat. | 大约6、7个月后,我收到伯纳特的短信。 |
| 317 | He's like, Smiley, I'm taking you out to dinner anywhere you want to go. | 他喜欢,笑脸,我带你出去 晚餐任何地方你想去。 |
| 318 | I was like, awesome. | 我当时很赞 |
| 319 | I want to get taken out to dinner. | 我想出去吃饭 |
| 320 | Great. | 不错 |
| 321 | So we go out to dinner. | 我们出去吃晚饭 |
| 322 | I'm like, what's going on, man? | 我像,怎么了,伙计? |
| 323 | What's up? | 这是怎么回事? |
| 324 | Like, why are you taking me out to dinner? | 喜欢,为什么你带我出去吃饭? |
| 325 | You know, like I have some money. | 你知道,像我有一些钱。 |
| 326 | I'm a writer. | 我是一个作家。 |
| 327 | I'm kind of mostly broke, but we can split the check or something. | 我大部分都破产了 但我们可以分钱什么的 |
| 328 | And he goes, well, the company, you know, the company I started working for after I | 他去,好了,公司,你知道, 公司我开始工作后 |
| 329 | met you. | 认识你。 |
| 330 | I was like, yeah. | 我很喜欢,是的。 |
| 331 | They had just been acquired by Yahoo for $80 million. | 他们刚刚被雅虎以8000万美元收购. |
| 332 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 333 | And it's a small team. | 并是小队. |
| 334 | So Bernat had equity. | 所以伯纳特有股权 |
| 335 | It was like a four or five person team. | 这就像一个四五个人团队。 |
| 336 | He was one of the first people on the team. | 他是球队中最早的人之一. |
| 337 | And he was thanking me. | 他在感谢我 |
| 338 | And I was like, you should thank yourself. | 我当时想,你应该感谢自己。 |
| 339 | You know why? | 你知道为什么吗? |
| 340 | Because Bernat made the ask. | 因为伯纳特问了 |
| 341 | He talked to a random stranger on a bicycle in a city that he didn't live in, in a country | 他在一个他不住的城市里 和一个骑自行车的陌生人交谈过 |
| 342 | that he's not even from. | 他甚至不是从。 |
| 343 | He made the ask. | 他问了。 |
| 344 | So do not let being a beginner limit your hustle. | 所以不要让初学者 限制你的动作。 |
| 345 | Take a risk. | 冒险吧 |
| 346 | Sign up for the class. | 报名上课. |
| 347 | Volunteer. | 志愿兵. |
| 348 | Go abroad. | 到国外去 |
| 349 | Work abroad. | 在国外工作。 |
| 350 | Launch the crowdfunding campaign. | 发起群众资助运动. |
| 351 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 352 | Start the blog. | 启动博客. |
| 353 | Build that website. | 建立这个网站。 |
| 354 | Make the ask. | 作么生问. |
| 355 | People will support you when you start working with purpose. | 当你开始有目的地工作的时候 人们会支持你 |
| 356 | Now, this isn't about finding your one calling or your one purpose because I don't think that | 现在,这不是 寻找你的一个呼叫或你的目的 因为我不认为 |
| 357 | that's possible. | 这是可能的。 |
| 358 | I think I've already had eight callings and I'm only 31, which is not that old, I swear. | 我想我已经打了八通电话了 我只有31岁了,我发誓 |
| 359 | But I am saying that if you find believers now, if you stop comparing yourself to others | 但我要说,如果你现在找到信徒, 如果你不再把自己比作别人 |
| 360 | now, and if you hustle to pursue what is meaningful to you now, you will change your | 现在,如果你拼命去追求 现在对你有意义的,你会改变你的 |
| 361 | life, you will change the lives of others, and you will change the world. | 生活,你会改变别人的生活, 你会改变世界。 |
| 362 | Now, people like Debbie and Ted and Tom changed my life. | 现在,像黛比,泰德和汤姆这样的人改变了我的生活. |
| 363 | They're the only reason I'm standing here right now and not sitting at home on Facebook | 我之所以站在这里 却不能坐在脸书上 |
| 364 | depressed, worrying about what all my friends are doing, worrying about my friend, the corporate | 忧郁,担心我的朋友在做什么 担心我的朋友,公司 |
| 365 | lawyer that doesn't even want to be a corporate lawyer. | 律师甚至不想成为公司律师 |
| 366 | Because when you pursue meaningful work, you inspire others to as well. | 因为当你追求有意义的工作时,你也会激励其他人。 |
| 367 | You ensure that the workforce of the future will be spending its days empowering girls | 你保证未来的劳动大军 将花费在赋予女孩权力的日子里 |
| 368 | to become engineers, teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship to urban youth, | 成为工程师,向城市青年传授金融知识和创业能力, |
| 369 | employing people with disabilities, and ensuring that every single person in this room | 雇用残疾人,并确保本会议室的每一个人 |
| 370 | and those not in this room reaches their full potential. | 和那些不在这个房间里的人 充分发挥他们的潜力。 |
| 371 | So you can call us idealistic. | 所以你可以叫我们理想主义 |
| 372 | You can certainly call me idealistic. | 你当然可以叫我理想主义。 |
| 373 | I mean, my name is Smiley. | 我的意思是,我的名字是笑脸。 |
| 374 | But we are not the me, me, me generation. | 但我们不是我,我,我这一代人。 |
| 375 | We are the purpose generation. | 我们是目的的一代。 |
| 376 | And we will be engaged with our work because we have to. | 我们将参与我们的工作,因为我们必须这样做。 |
| 377 | The challenges facing our generation are simply too serious to ignore. | 我们这一代人面临的挑战太严重,不容忽视。 |
| 378 | They're too serious to only worry about on the weekend or too serious to only worry about after 5 p.m. | 他们太认真了,不能在周末担心,也不能在下午5点以后担心. |
| 379 | We can't be stuck in a high school crisis, a quarter life crisis, a third life crisis, or a midlife crisis. | 我们不能陷入高中危机,四分之一生活危机,第三生活危机,或中年危机. |
| 380 | We can't climb the career ladder to nowhere. | 我们不能爬上职业阶梯到任何地方。 |
| 381 | The stakes are too damn high. | 赌注太高了 |
| 382 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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| 0:01 | I did everything I was supposed to do. | 我做了我应该做的 |
| 0:03 | I got good grades in high school. | 我高中成绩不错 |
| 0:05 | I took AP classes. | 我上过AP课 |
| 0:07 | I went to a good college. | 我去了一所好大学。 |
| 0:08 | I got a great job. | 我得到了一个伟大的工作。 |
| 0:10 | I climbed the career ladder. | 我爬上了职业阶梯。 |
| 0:12 | On paper, I had it all. | 在纸上,我得到了这一切。 |
| 0:14 | I was making $70,000 a year at the age of 28. | 我28岁时每年赚7万块 |
| 0:18 | I was working for the federal government. | 我在联邦政府工作 |
| 0:19 | I had health care. | 我得到了医疗保健。 |
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| 1 | I did everything I was supposed to do. | 我做了我应该做的 |
| 2 | I got good grades in high school. | 我高中成绩不错 |
| 3 | I took AP classes. | 我上过AP课 |
| 4 | I went to a good college. | 我去了一所好大学。 |
| 5 | I got a great job. | 我得到了一个伟大的工作。 |
| 6 | I climbed the career ladder. | 我爬上了职业阶梯。 |
| 7 | On paper, I had it all. | 在纸上,我得到了这一切。 |
| 8 | I was making $70,000 a year at the age of 28. | 我28岁时每年赚7万块 |
| 9 | I was working for the federal government. | 我在联邦政府工作 |
| 10 | I had health care. | 我得到了医疗保健。 |
| 11 | I had benefits. | 我有好处。 |
| 12 | I had job security. | 我有工作保障。 |
| 13 | You literally can't get fired from working for the government. | 你绝对不能因为为政府工作而被解雇 |
| 14 | Trust me, there are people that should. | 相信我 有些人应该这么做 |
| 15 | My parents were impressed. | 我父母很惊讶 |
| 16 | My friends were impressed. | 我的朋友们都很感动 |
| 17 | My boss told me I was doing a great job. | 我老板说我做得很好 |
| 18 | I'd go to happy hour and tell everyone I was the special assistant to the director of global operations at the US Peace Corps, | 我会去快乐的时刻告诉大家 我是美国和平队全球行动主任的特别助理 |
| 19 | and everyone thought that was so cool. | 大家都觉得这很酷 |
| 20 | They asked for my business card. | 他们要我的名片 |
| 21 | I got to sit in on meetings at the White House. | 我得参加白宫的会议 |
| 22 | Everything was perfect about my job, except for one tiny kind of important thing. | 除了一件小事之外 我的工作是完美的 |
| 23 | I was miserable. | 我很悲惨。 |
| 24 | How did I know I was miserable? | 我怎么知道我很悲惨? |
| 25 | Every single morning when my alarm would go off at 630 in the morning to NPR, | 每天早上 当我的警报会在早上6点30分响到NPR时 |
| 26 | I'd feel a shooting pain go up and down my back. | 我总觉得枪伤会上下 |
| 27 | I felt this pain when I was getting out of bed, | 我下床时感觉很痛苦 |
| 28 | when I was brushing my teeth, | 当我刷牙, |
| 29 | when I was getting dressed and putting on my shirt and tie, | 当我穿好衣服 穿上衬衫和领带时 |
| 30 | when I was taking the bus down to work, | 当我搭公交车去上班时 |
| 31 | when I scanned my ID badge in at the office, | 我在办公室扫描身份证时 |
| 32 | when I rode up the elevator to my desk, | 当我骑电梯到我的办公桌, |
| 33 | when I was sitting at my desk typing memos, | 当我坐在我的桌子打字备忘录, |
| 34 | when my boss would invite me in for meetings and we'd talk about best practices, | 当我的老板邀请我去开会 我们来谈谈最佳做法 |
| 35 | and when my boss would email me every single night on my Blackberry at 10 p.m. | 我老板每晚10点都会用黑莓发邮件给我 |
| 36 | The pain was so bad, I developed shingles on my side. | 痛苦是如此糟糕, 我发展了丝带在我身边。 |
| 37 | Shingles is a nerve disease common around people over the age of 70, not 20-somethings. | Shingles是一种常见于70岁以上人群的神经疾病,而不是20-某种程度. |
| 38 | This was the pain of confusion. | 这是混乱的痛苦。 |
| 39 | It was the pain of climbing this career ladder to success and realizing that I was nowhere. | 它的痛苦是攀登这个事业阶梯 成功并意识到我无处不在。 |
| 40 | I was somewhere I didn't want to be. | 我本来不想去的地方 |
| 41 | I was stuck in a quarter-life crisis. | 我被困在半生危机中 |
| 42 | 我花了很多时间在Facebook上, 过度在FOMO, | |
| 43 | fear of missing out, comparing myself to what my friends were doing. | 害怕失手 把自己和我的朋友们做的事比起来 |
| 44 | So there was my friend going off to business school, | 我朋友去商学院了 |
| 45 | and I was like, maybe I should get my MBA. | 我当时想, 也许我应该得到我的MBA。 |
| 46 | And there was my friend going to teach at a charter school, | 我朋友要去包机学校教书 |
| 47 | and I was like, maybe I should go work at a charter school. | 我当时想,也许我应该去 特许学校工作。 |
| 48 | And there was my friend opening a food truck, | 我朋友开了一辆餐车 |
| 49 | and I was like, maybe I should open a food truck, | 我当时想, 也许我应该开一辆餐车, |
| 50 | even though I'm an awful driver and a really bad cook. | 虽然我是一个糟糕的司机 和非常糟糕的厨师。 |
| 51 | And so there was a buddy of mine, | 所以我有个朋友 |
| 52 | he'd already graduated from one of the top law schools in the country, | 他已经从全国顶尖法学院毕业了 |
| 53 | got this amazing job at one of the top corporate firms making well over six figures. | 在最顶尖的公司之一 得到了这份惊人的工作 超过六位数字。 |
| 54 | And he's like, he's got it all figured out. | 且道:"他个个个个个个个都解了. |
| 55 | And there he is traveling with his fiance, | 他和他的未婚夫一起旅行, |
| 56 | traveling with his girlfriend in Peru, getting engaged at sunset in front of Machu Picchu. | 与女友在秘鲁旅行,在马丘比丘面前的日落时订婚. |
| 57 | And I'm like, man, this guy's got it all figured out. | 而我喜欢,男人,这家伙已经得到了这一切。 |
| 58 | He's got this amazing job. | 他有这个惊人的工作。 |
| 59 | He's already going to get married. | 他已经要结婚了 |
| 60 | He's at Machu Picchu. | 他在马丘比丘. |
| 61 | I hate my job. | 我讨厌我的工作 |
| 62 | I hate my life. | 我讨厌我的生活。 |
| 63 | I can't even get a date on OkCupid. | 我连奥库皮德的约会都找不到 |
| 64 | My life is ruined. | 我的生活毁了。 |
| 65 | I'm a goner. | 我是一个死。 |
| 66 | And it was only when I met other young people going through the exact same thing I was | 直到我遇到其他的年轻人 经历同样的事情 |
| 67 | that I was able to turn my quarter-life crisis into a breakthrough. | 我得以把生活危机变成突破 |
| 68 | So this talk's going to teach you a few lessons I learned on my journey | 所以这次演讲会给你一些教训 我在旅途中学到的 |
| 69 | that can help anyone that's stuck in a quarter-life crisis | 能帮助任何陷入四分之一生命危机的人 |
| 70 | or help all of you avoid your quarter-life crisis and find meaningful work. | 或帮助大家避免你 四分之一生命的危机 找到有意义的工作。 |
| 71 | So the first lesson I learned, find believers. | 因此,我学到的第一个教训是找到信徒。 |
| 72 | Surround yourself with people that believe in the beauty of their dreams. | 与信其梦之美者围绕. |
| 73 | Because I used to come home in D.C. every night to my roommate, Dan. | 因为我以前每晚都会回到华盛顿 我的室友丹 |
| 74 | And I'd be like, Dan, I hate my job. | 而我会喜欢,丹,我讨厌我的工作。 |
| 75 | I don't want to do this anymore. | 我不想再这样了 |
| 76 | I want to move across the country. | 我想搬到全国各地去 |
| 77 | I want to live in San Francisco. | 我想住在旧金山 |
| 78 | I've always wanted to live there. | 我一直想住在这里。 |
| 79 | I want to start writing. | 我想开始写作。 |
| 80 | I want to start being a creative. | 我想开始成为一个创意。 |
| 81 | I want to start supporting social entrepreneurs. | 我想开始支持社会企业家。 |
| 82 | I want to start supporting young people that are going after their dreams. | 我想开始支持那些追求梦想的年轻人。 |
| 83 | And Dan would look at me, stare, roll his eyes, take a swig of beer, say, smiley, suck it up. | 和丹会看着我, 凝视, 滚他的眼睛, 喝一喝啤酒, 说,微笑,吸它。 |
| 84 | Everyone hates their job. | 每个人都讨厌他们的工作。 |
| 85 | It's part of life. | 谓众生之分. |
| 86 | And I was like, man, you know, that's kind of brutal. | 我当时想,伙计,你知道, 这有点残忍。 |
| 87 | I was 28 at the time, which is old, but it's not that old. | 当时我28岁,虽然很老,但没那么老. |
| 88 | I didn't really spend the next 40 years of my life depressed. | 接下来的40年里,我并没有真正消沉 |
| 89 | But you know what? | 但你知道吗? |
| 90 | The majority of the world thinks like Dan. | 世人多以为丹. |
| 91 | Seventy percent of Americans are disengaged at their jobs. | 70%的美国人失业了 |
| 92 | Seventy percent. | 百分之七十. 师曰. |
| 93 | One-fifth of those people are so disengaged, | 这些人中有五分之一如此脱离 |
| 94 | they're actively undermining their coworkers' work. | 他们正在积极破坏同事的工作。 |
| 95 | They're literally getting paid to mess things up for the company that they work for. | 他们真的得到工资来搞乱他们为公司工作的事情。 |
| 96 | And this is a shame. | 这真可惜 |
| 97 | It's a shame because millions of people wake up every day unfulfilled, depressed, | 可惜的是,每天都有数百万人 醒来时没有实现,沮丧, |
| 98 | not showing up fully for themselves, their families, their communities, or the world at large. | 没有为自己、家人、社区或整个世界充分展示。 |
| 99 | So then I met Believers. | 于是我遇见了信徒。 |
| 100 | I went to a leadership program that brings together 20-somethings | 我参加了一个领导班子 召集了20多个人 |
| 101 | that are interested in creating social change, | 有兴趣创造社会变革, |
| 102 | that are interested in social entrepreneurship, | 对社会创业感兴趣的人, |
| 103 | that are interested in using business for good. | 有兴趣把生意永远利用 |
| 104 | The program was called Starting Block. | 节目名为"开始块". |
| 105 | And at Starting Block, I met Believers. | 在开始街区,我遇到了信徒。 |
| 106 | I met people like Debbie. | 我遇见了黛比这样的人 |
| 107 | 黛比在启动Goldie Blocks, | |
| 108 | a toy company that teaches young girls' engineering skills. | 一个玩具公司 教年轻女孩的工程技能。 |
| 109 | I met people like Ted. | 我遇见了泰德这样的人 |
| 110 | Ted started Money Think, | 泰德开始赚钱了 考虑一下 |
| 111 | which is a nonprofit that teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship to urban youth. | 它是一个非营利组织,向城市青年传授金融知识和创业能力。 |
| 112 | I met people like Tom. | 我遇见了汤姆这样的人 |
| 113 | Tom started Rising Tide Car Wash, | 汤姆开始涨潮车洗, |
| 114 | a small business in South Florida with his father that employs people with autism. | 和父亲在南佛罗里达的一家小生意 雇佣自闭症患者 |
| 115 | So I met these Believers, and they're like, | 于是我遇见了这些信徒, 他们喜欢, |
| 116 | wait a second, wait a second, Smiley. | 等等,等一下,笑脸 |
| 117 | You want to leave D.C. | 你想离开华盛顿 |
| 118 | You want to move to San Francisco. | 你想搬到旧金山去 |
| 119 | You want to start writing. | 你想开始写作。 |
| 120 | You want to start supporting social entrepreneurs. | 你想开始支持社会企业家。 |
| 121 | You have to do that. | 你必须这样做。 |
| 122 | The world needs you to do that. | 世界需要你这样做。 |
| 123 | Because a crazy thing happens when you find Believers. | 因为当你找到信徒时 会发生一件疯狂的事 |
| 124 | You find accountability. | 你找到责任。 |
| 125 | Now normally in the real world, you tell someone you're going to quit your job, | 现在通常在现实世界, 你告诉别人,你要去辞掉你的工作, |
| 126 | and they're like, yeah, dude, you said that like six months ago. | 他们就像,是的,伙计,你说的 像六个月前。 |
| 127 | Everyone's going to quit their job. | 皆悉辞去职. |
| 128 | Whatever, you're not going to do it. | 不管怎么样,你不会这样做的。 |
| 129 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 130 | You tell someone you're going to write a book, | 你告诉别人你会写一本书, |
| 131 | and they're like, everyone's writing a book. | 他们喜欢,每个人都在写一本书。 |
| 132 | I'll believe it when I see it. | 一见便信. |
| 133 | You'll never do it. | 你永远不会这样做。 |
| 134 | Not when you tell Believers. | 当你告诉信道者的时候, |
| 135 | Because when you tell Believers, you have accountability. | 因为当你告诉信士们的时候,你们是负责任的。 |
| 136 | I told my buddy Evan that I was going to quit my job at Starting Block. | 我跟我的朋友埃文说 我要辞去在开始街区的工作 |
| 137 | And you know what he asked me? | 你知道他问我什么吗? |
| 138 | One simple question. | 一个简单的问题。 |
| 139 | When? | 什么时候? |
| 140 | When are you going to have the talk with your boss? | 你什么时候跟你老板谈? |
| 141 | And he texted me every single week after that program. | 节目结束后他每周给我发短信 |
| 142 | Have you had the talk with your boss yet? | 你跟老板谈过了吗? |
| 143 | I'd be in meetings with senior officials at the White House getting texts and calls from this guy. | 我会和白宫的高级官员见面 得到他发来的短信和电话 |
| 144 | I was like, you've got to stop calling me, man. | 我当时想,你必须停止给我打电话,伙计。 |
| 145 | You're going to get me arrested. | 你会让我被捕的 |
| 146 | But you know what? | 但你知道吗? |
| 147 | The only reason I did have that talk with my boss, | 我和老板谈话的唯一原因 |
| 148 | the only reason I did quit my job, | 我辞职的唯一原因 |
| 149 | the only reason I did move across the country to a city I wanted to live in, | 我搬到一个我想居住的城市的唯一原因 |
| 150 | the only reason I did write a book, | 我写书的唯一原因 |
| 151 | the only reason I did start supporting social entrepreneurs, | 我开始支持社会企业家的唯一原因 |
| 152 | and the only reason I'm standing here right now is because people like Evan held me accountable. | 我现在站在这里的唯一原因 是因为像埃文这样的人让我负责 |
| 153 | Because when you find Believers, you find accountability. | 因为当你们发现信士们的时候,你们必定要敬畏。 |
| 154 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 155 | Now people like Debbie and Ted and Tom weren't talking about making lots of money. | 现在,像黛比,泰德和汤姆这样的人 并没有谈论赚很多钱。 |
| 156 | They weren't talking about rising up the corporate ladder. | 他们不是在说要升职 |
| 157 | 他们不是在说在TechCrunch或Fast公司上演 | |
| 158 | They were talking about making the world more innovative, compassionate, and sustainable. | 他们正在谈论使世界更加创新、富有同情心和可持续。 |
| 159 | They were talking about using their access, their privilege, and their skills | 他们谈论利用他们的进入、特权和技能 |
| 160 | to empower people less fortunate than them. | 赋予比他们更幸运的人权力。 |
| 161 | Because the success symbol for my generation, for our generation, | 因为我这一代人的成功象征 |
| 162 | isn't climbing the career ladder. | 不是攀登职业阶梯。 |
| 163 | It's doing work that matters. | 它的工作才是关键 |
| 164 | So we're not the me, me, me generation. | 所以,我们不是 我,我,我的世代。 |
| 165 | Fifty percent of Millennials, that's most of you in this room, | 百分之五十的千禧年, 这是你们大多数在这个房间, |
| 166 | would take a pay cut to find work that matches their values. | 要找到符合他们价值的工作 需要削减工资 |
| 167 | Ninety percent of Millennials want to use their skills for good. | 90%的千禧年人希望将自己的技能用于善用. |
| 168 | Despite unprecedented levels of unemployment and student debt, | 尽管失业和学生债务水平前所未有, |
| 169 | our generation wants to work with purpose. | 我们这一代人希望有目的地工作。 |
| 170 | So how do you actually find meaningful work? | 你怎么找到有意义的工作? |
| 171 | Well, the second lesson I learned is that you have to stop comparing yourself to others | 好吧,我学到的第二个教训是,你必须停止 比较自己和其他人 |
| 172 | and start pursuing what is meaningful to you. | 开始追求对你们有意义的东西 |
| 173 | So I went back and I interviewed my friend, the corporate lawyer, | 于是我回去采访我的朋友 公司律师 |
| 174 | that had it all figured out, that was Mary, that got engaged at Machu Picchu. | 玛丽在马丘比丘订婚 |
| 175 | I was like, man, you got this great job, you're making all this money. | 我当时想,伙计,你得到了这个伟大的工作, 你赚了这么多钱。 |
| 176 | What's the secret? | 有什么秘密吗? |
| 177 | You know, what's the secret? | 你知道,有什么秘密吗? |
| 178 | And you know what he told me? | 你知道他告诉我什么吗? |
| 179 | He told me that after three years of law school, | 他告诉我 法学院三年后 |
| 180 | hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt, | 数十万美元的学生债务, |
| 181 | and now making all this money at the corporate firm, | 现在在公司赚了这么多钱 |
| 182 | that he was miserable as a corporate lawyer. | 作为公司律师他很痛苦 |
| 183 | And that he was going to go back to grad school at the age of 30 | 他30岁时要回研究生院 |
| 184 | to become a high school social studies teacher. | 成为高中社会学教师。 |
| 185 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 186 | Which is great for him. | 这对他很好 |
| 187 | But what's the lesson? | 但有何教训? |
| 188 | What's the lesson? | 什么是教训? |
| 189 | Nobody knows what they're doing. | 没有人知道他们在做什么。 |
| 190 | Nobody has it figured out. | 没人知道 |
| 191 | The grass is always greener. | 草常绿. |
| 192 | Instead of comparing yourself to others, | 而不是把自己和别人比起来 |
| 193 | instead of comparing yourself to everyone on Facebook, | 而不是把自己和Facebook上的每个人比起来 |
| 194 | start figuring out what it is you want. | 开始想清楚你想要什么 |
| 195 | Don't climb the career ladder to nowhere. | 别爬事业梯子到无处. |
| 196 | Build a career that matters to you. | 建立对你重要的事业. |
| 197 | So why are you here? | 那你为什么来这里? |
| 198 | What do you want to do for others? | 你想为别人做什么? |
| 199 | How can you align your own gifts, your unique gifts, | 你如何调整自己的礼物, 你独特的礼物, |
| 200 | with the impact you want to have on the world | 和你想对世界的影响 |
| 201 | in a way that supports your desired quality of life? | 支持你理想的生活质量? |
| 202 | And you know what the beautiful thing about meaning is? | 你知道意义是什么吗? |
| 203 | The beautiful thing about alignment? | 校正的美丽之处? |
| 204 | There's no one answer. | 无人答. |
| 205 | No two people's definitions are the same. | 无二众生定义同. |
| 206 | I don't know what's right for you. | 我不知道什么是适合你的。 |
| 207 | I'm still trying to figure out what's right for myself. | 仍欲解其义. |
| 208 | 现在黛比,她开始了GoldieBlox | |
| 209 | because of the discrimination that she faced | 由于她面临歧视 |
| 210 | as one of the only female engineering students | 作为唯一的女工科学生之一 |
| 211 | at Stanford University. | 在斯坦福大学 |
| 212 | Ted started Money Think because when he was growing up in Chicago, | 泰德开始赚钱了 想想因为他在芝加哥长大时 |
| 213 | he realized he had a lot of opportunities due to his privilege | 他意识到由于他的特权 他有很多机会 |
| 214 | that his peers simply didn't have. | 他的同龄人根本就没有 |
| 215 | And Tom started Rising Tide Car Wash | 汤姆开始洗车 |
| 216 | because he saw how hard it was for his own brother to find a job | 因为他看到自己的哥哥很难找到工作 |
| 217 | because his own brother has autism. | 因为他的哥哥有自闭症 |
| 218 | So they had a personal connection to their work, | 所以他们与自己的工作有个人联系 |
| 219 | meaning is personal. | 意思是个人的。 |
| 220 | So what makes you tick? | 那么,是什么让你滴答? |
| 221 | Not your parents, not your boss, not your friends on Facebook. | 不是你父母 也不是你的老板 也不是脸书上的朋友 |
| 222 | What makes you tick? | 什么让你抽搐? |
| 223 | Why are you here? | 你为什么在这里? |
| 224 | How will you create your own path? | 你怎么创造自己的道路? |
| 225 | And the third lesson I learned is that you have to start hustling. | 我学到的第三个教训是 你必须开始胡思乱想。 |
| 226 | You have to start hustling with intention. | 你必须开始胡思乱想 |
| 227 | You have to start hustling with purpose. | 你必须开始有目的的胡思乱想 |
| 228 | Now a lot of people like to call our generation lazy, | 现在很多人都说我们这代人懒惰 |
| 229 | the lazy generation. | 懒惰的一代。 |
| 230 | It's like, are you kidding me? | 你开玩笑吧? |
| 231 | Lazy? | 懒惰? |
| 232 | I've been working for 10 years since college | 大学以来我工作了十年 |
| 233 | and I still owe Sally Mae $10,000 in student loans. | 我还欠莎莉梅一万元的学生贷款 |
| 234 | So Sally Mae, if I ever see you on Tinder, I'm swiping left. | 莎莉·梅 如果我在Tinder上看到你 我就走人了 |
| 235 | Now Debbie and Ted and Tom, they weren't working four hours a week. | 现在黛比、泰德和汤姆 他们每周不工作四个小时 |
| 236 | They were working 40, 50, 60 hours a week on something they cared about. | 他们每周工作40、50、60小时 研究他们关心的事情。 |
| 237 | Now why would you want to automate something that brings you joy? | 现在,你为什么想要自动化的东西 让你高兴? |
| 238 | Why would you want to automate something that impacts the world, | 你为什么想要 自动化的东西 影响世界, |
| 239 | that impacts others? | 影响他人? |
| 240 | These people weren't automating, they were hustling. | 这些人不是在自动化,而是在胡闹。 |
| 241 | They were working hard on something that matters. | 他们正在努力解决一些很重要的事情。 |
| 242 | I was working four different jobs when I was writing a book | 我写书的时候 做了四个不同的工作 |
| 243 | because I had to pay rent and pay my loans. | 因为我要付房租和贷款 |
| 244 | Now a lot of people hear my story and they're like, | 现在很多人听到我的故事,他们喜欢, |
| 245 | that's it, I've got to quit my job tomorrow, I'm out, peace. | 就这样,我明天要辞掉工作,我不干了,和平 |
| 246 | That's not my message, that's not what I'm saying. | 这不是我的信息,我不是这个意思。 |
| 247 | Now a lot of you may have heard of Debbie and heard of GoldieBlox, | 现在你们中很多人可能听说过黛比 也听说过戈尔迪·布洛克斯 |
| 248 | but what you might not know is that she had a full-time job | 但你可能不知道的是 她有全职工作 |
| 249 | while she was starting that company. | 在她创办公司时 |
| 250 | She was working as the marketing director for a jewelry company in San Francisco. | 她在旧金山的一家珠宝公司担任营销总监. |
| 251 | She stayed on that job for nine months after she had the idea for GoldieBlox. | 在她为GoldieBlox想到主意后,她在这工作了九个月. |
| 252 | Why? | 为什么? |
| 253 | Well first of all, she knew she was going to start her own business | 首先 她知道自己要创业 |
| 254 | so she needed to save money, very practical reason. | 所以她需要节省钱 非常实际的理由 |
| 255 | But second of all, she felt like she was getting paid to go to business school. | 但是,第二,她觉得像 得到报酬去商学院。 |
| 256 | Rather than pay a lot of money to go get an MBA, | 而不是花很多钱去买MBA |
| 257 | she was earning a paycheck and learning invaluable skills | 她挣到薪水,学习宝贵的技能 |
| 258 | in marketing, retail, distribution, sales, | 在销售、零售、分销、销售、 |
| 259 | that she knew she'd be able to apply to her own business | 她知道她可以申请自己的生意 |
| 260 | when she left and started her own company. | 当她离开并创办自己的公司。 |
| 261 | So you don't have to quit your job tomorrow. | 你明天就不用辞职了 |
| 262 | Matter of fact, you don't even need to have a job. | 事实上 你根本不需要工作 |
| 263 | I'm going to tell the story of my friend Bernat. | 我要讲我的朋友伯纳特的故事 |
| 264 | So I met this crazy guy once in San Francisco on biking home, | 所以我在旧金山见过一个疯子 骑自行车回家 |
| 265 | and all of a sudden this stranger starts talking to me. | 突然这个陌生人开始跟我说话 |
| 266 | He's like, hey man, how's your day going? | 他就像,嘿,你好吗? |
| 267 | I was like, I don't know, leave me alone, I don't know you. | 我当时想,我不知道,让我一个人,我不认识你。 |
| 268 | He keeps biking alongside me. | 他一直跟我一起骑自行车 |
| 269 | He's like, hey man, I just got here from Spain, I'm looking for a job. | 他就像,嘿,我刚从西班牙来, 我在找工作。 |
| 270 | I was like, I don't know you, leave me alone. | 我当时想,我不认识你,别烦我 |
| 271 | He keeps biking alongside me and he's like, | 他一直跟着我骑自行车,他喜欢, |
| 272 | hey, I just moved here from Barcelona. | 我刚从巴塞罗那搬来 |
| 273 | I'm a UX, UI designer, a really good designer. | 我是一个UX,UI设计师, 一个非常好的设计师。 |
| 274 | I'm trying to find a job. | 我试着找份工作。 |
| 275 | I've had six interviews this week. | 这个星期我接受了六次采访 |
| 276 | If I don't get a job, I have to go back to Spain. | 如果我找不到工作,我必须回西班牙 |
| 277 | I need a work visa to stay here in the United States. | 我需要工作签证才能留在美国 |
| 278 | There's not that many jobs in Spain. | 西班牙没有那么多工作 |
| 279 | I really want to stay. | 我真的想留下来 |
| 280 | And I was like, well, actually, you know, my best friend was just living in Barcelona. | 我当时想,实际上,你知道, 我最好的朋友只是住在巴塞罗那。 |
| 281 | It's a beautiful city. | 其城颇美. |
| 282 | You know, let me check out your website. | 让我查查你的网站 |
| 283 | And he was like, well, what are you working on? | 他就像,嗯, 你在忙什么? |
| 284 | And I was like, well, I'm writing this book. | 我在写这本书 |
| 285 | And he goes, well, do you have a cover designer? | 他去,好了,你有 一个封面设计师? |
| 286 | I was like, no, not yet. | 我当时想,不,还没有。 |
| 287 | So I go home, I check out his website. | 所以我回家 看看他的网站 |
| 288 | I was like, wow, this guy's a pretty good designer. | 我当时想,哇,这家伙是一个相当不错的设计师。 |
| 289 | This guy's pretty kick ass. | 这家伙的漂亮屁股。 |
| 290 | He's awesome. | 他很厉害 |
| 291 | So I was like, hey, Bernat, maybe you could design my book cover. | 所以我想,嘿,伯纳特, 也许你可以设计我的书封面。 |
| 292 | And then I post on Facebook like, hey, just met this crazy guy, Bernat, from Barcelona. | 然后我在脸书上发帖说,嘿, 刚遇到一个疯狂的家伙,伯纳特,来自巴塞罗那。 |
| 293 | Does anyone need a designer? | 有人需要设计师吗? |
| 294 | I know a lot of people in startups. | 我认识很多创业者 |
| 295 | Does anyone need a designer? | 有人需要设计师吗? |
| 296 | Maybe Bernat can help you. | 也许伯纳特能帮你 |
| 297 | About five minutes later, my friend Yi comments. | 大约五分钟后,我的朋友易评论. |
| 298 | He's like, actually, my friends are starting the startup in Palo Alto. | 他就像,实际上,我的朋友 开始启动在帕洛阿尔托。 |
| 299 | I think there's like three of them. | 我想他们有3个 |
| 300 | They don't really know what they're doing. | 他们真的不知道自己在做什么 |
| 301 | They're figuring out. | 他们正在想 |
| 302 | They could use a designer. | 他们需要设计师 |
| 303 | So Bernat meets with this team. | 因此伯纳特与这个团队相遇. |
| 304 | They hit it off. | 他们打它了。 |
| 305 | He gets hired as their lead designer. | 他受雇为他们的首席设计师。 |
| 306 | It's like a four-person team. | 如四人队. |
| 307 | He's super excited. | 他超兴奋的 |
| 308 | He texts me. | 他发短信给我 |
| 309 | He's like, Smiley, thank you. | 他就像,笑脸,谢谢你。 |
| 310 | I got this job. | 我得到了这份工作。 |
| 311 | And I was like, you know, thank you, man. | 而我就像,你知道,谢谢你,伙计。 |
| 312 | You made the ask. | 是你问的 |
| 313 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 314 | So it goes by. | 故曰顺行. |
| 315 | He helps me design this book cover. | 他帮我设计这本书封面 |
| 316 | And then about six, seven months later, I get a text from Bernat. | 大约6、7个月后,我收到伯纳特的短信。 |
| 317 | He's like, Smiley, I'm taking you out to dinner anywhere you want to go. | 他喜欢,笑脸,我带你出去 晚餐任何地方你想去。 |
| 318 | I was like, awesome. | 我当时很赞 |
| 319 | I want to get taken out to dinner. | 我想出去吃饭 |
| 320 | Great. | 不错 |
| 321 | So we go out to dinner. | 我们出去吃晚饭 |
| 322 | I'm like, what's going on, man? | 我像,怎么了,伙计? |
| 323 | What's up? | 这是怎么回事? |
| 324 | Like, why are you taking me out to dinner? | 喜欢,为什么你带我出去吃饭? |
| 325 | You know, like I have some money. | 你知道,像我有一些钱。 |
| 326 | I'm a writer. | 我是一个作家。 |
| 327 | I'm kind of mostly broke, but we can split the check or something. | 我大部分都破产了 但我们可以分钱什么的 |
| 328 | And he goes, well, the company, you know, the company I started working for after I | 他去,好了,公司,你知道, 公司我开始工作后 |
| 329 | met you. | 认识你。 |
| 330 | I was like, yeah. | 我很喜欢,是的。 |
| 331 | They had just been acquired by Yahoo for $80 million. | 他们刚刚被雅虎以8000万美元收购. |
| 332 | Right? | 对吧? |
| 333 | And it's a small team. | 并是小队. |
| 334 | So Bernat had equity. | 所以伯纳特有股权 |
| 335 | It was like a four or five person team. | 这就像一个四五个人团队。 |
| 336 | He was one of the first people on the team. | 他是球队中最早的人之一. |
| 337 | And he was thanking me. | 他在感谢我 |
| 338 | And I was like, you should thank yourself. | 我当时想,你应该感谢自己。 |
| 339 | You know why? | 你知道为什么吗? |
| 340 | Because Bernat made the ask. | 因为伯纳特问了 |
| 341 | He talked to a random stranger on a bicycle in a city that he didn't live in, in a country | 他在一个他不住的城市里 和一个骑自行车的陌生人交谈过 |
| 342 | that he's not even from. | 他甚至不是从。 |
| 343 | He made the ask. | 他问了。 |
| 344 | So do not let being a beginner limit your hustle. | 所以不要让初学者 限制你的动作。 |
| 345 | Take a risk. | 冒险吧 |
| 346 | Sign up for the class. | 报名上课. |
| 347 | Volunteer. | 志愿兵. |
| 348 | Go abroad. | 到国外去 |
| 349 | Work abroad. | 在国外工作。 |
| 350 | Launch the crowdfunding campaign. | 发起群众资助运动. |
| 351 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 352 | Start the blog. | 启动博客. |
| 353 | Build that website. | 建立这个网站。 |
| 354 | Make the ask. | 作么生问. |
| 355 | People will support you when you start working with purpose. | 当你开始有目的地工作的时候 人们会支持你 |
| 356 | Now, this isn't about finding your one calling or your one purpose because I don't think that | 现在,这不是 寻找你的一个呼叫或你的目的 因为我不认为 |
| 357 | that's possible. | 这是可能的。 |
| 358 | I think I've already had eight callings and I'm only 31, which is not that old, I swear. | 我想我已经打了八通电话了 我只有31岁了,我发誓 |
| 359 | But I am saying that if you find believers now, if you stop comparing yourself to others | 但我要说,如果你现在找到信徒, 如果你不再把自己比作别人 |
| 360 | now, and if you hustle to pursue what is meaningful to you now, you will change your | 现在,如果你拼命去追求 现在对你有意义的,你会改变你的 |
| 361 | life, you will change the lives of others, and you will change the world. | 生活,你会改变别人的生活, 你会改变世界。 |
| 362 | Now, people like Debbie and Ted and Tom changed my life. | 现在,像黛比,泰德和汤姆这样的人改变了我的生活. |
| 363 | They're the only reason I'm standing here right now and not sitting at home on Facebook | 我之所以站在这里 却不能坐在脸书上 |
| 364 | depressed, worrying about what all my friends are doing, worrying about my friend, the corporate | 忧郁,担心我的朋友在做什么 担心我的朋友,公司 |
| 365 | lawyer that doesn't even want to be a corporate lawyer. | 律师甚至不想成为公司律师 |
| 366 | Because when you pursue meaningful work, you inspire others to as well. | 因为当你追求有意义的工作时,你也会激励其他人。 |
| 367 | You ensure that the workforce of the future will be spending its days empowering girls | 你保证未来的劳动大军 将花费在赋予女孩权力的日子里 |
| 368 | to become engineers, teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship to urban youth, | 成为工程师,向城市青年传授金融知识和创业能力, |
| 369 | employing people with disabilities, and ensuring that every single person in this room | 雇用残疾人,并确保本会议室的每一个人 |
| 370 | and those not in this room reaches their full potential. | 和那些不在这个房间里的人 充分发挥他们的潜力。 |
| 371 | So you can call us idealistic. | 所以你可以叫我们理想主义 |
| 372 | You can certainly call me idealistic. | 你当然可以叫我理想主义。 |
| 373 | I mean, my name is Smiley. | 我的意思是,我的名字是笑脸。 |
| 374 | But we are not the me, me, me generation. | 但我们不是我,我,我这一代人。 |
| 375 | We are the purpose generation. | 我们是目的的一代。 |
| 376 | And we will be engaged with our work because we have to. | 我们将参与我们的工作,因为我们必须这样做。 |
| 377 | The challenges facing our generation are simply too serious to ignore. | 我们这一代人面临的挑战太严重,不容忽视。 |
| 378 | They're too serious to only worry about on the weekend or too serious to only worry about after 5 p.m. | 他们太认真了,不能在周末担心,也不能在下午5点以后担心. |
| 379 | We can't be stuck in a high school crisis, a quarter life crisis, a third life crisis, or a midlife crisis. | 我们不能陷入高中危机,四分之一生活危机,第三生活危机,或中年危机. |
| 380 | We can't climb the career ladder to nowhere. | 我们不能爬上职业阶梯到任何地方。 |
| 381 | The stakes are too damn high. | 赌注太高了 |
| 382 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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