脱口秀女王奥普拉最新毕业演讲：人生没有失败！触碰的每个生命都是我的遗产
脱口秀女王奥普拉·温弗瑞在科罗拉多学院毕业演讲上对毕业生们提出了自己的寄语。人生没有失败，也不要等待所谓转机，命运掌握在自己手中。
I especially appreciate and resonate with your class motto. The quote from Angela Davis which says you have to act as if it's possible to radically transform the world and you have to do that all the time.
我很喜欢你们的校训，是引用了安吉拉·戴维斯的一句话：“你必须要像能彻底改变世界一样去行动，而且你要一直做下去。”
I'm here to tell you that you actually do get to transform the world every day by your actions. Samll steps lead to big accomplishments. Your life isn't some big break like everybody says it is, you are waiting on the big break. It's actually about taking one significant life transforming step at a time. So you can pick a problem, literally, any problem. The list is long because there's gun violence and economic inequality and there's media bias and the homeless opportunity and the addicted need treatment and the dreamers need protection and the prison system needs to be reformed. The social safety net needs saving, misogyny needs to stop
我想说，你每天都可以通过自己的行动来改变这个世界。不积跬步，何以成千里？人生也不是处处充满重大的转机。虽然大家总爱说“你需要等待大转机”，但实际上最关键的是，每次改变命运时，所迈出的至关重要的那一步。所以你可以选择聚焦任何一个社会问题。实在是太多了，比如枪支暴力、贫富差距、媒体偏见、无家可归者的不公待遇、毒瘾患者需要治疗、移民需要保护、监狱系统需要改革、社交安全网需要完善、厌女问题需要终止。
And the truth is, you can't fix everything. But what you can do here and now is make a decision because life is about decision. And the decision is that you will use your life in service. You will be in service to life and you will speak up, you will show up, you will stand up, you will sit in, you will volunteer, you will vote, you will shout out, you will help, you will lead a hand, you will offer your talent and your kindness however you can. And you will radically transform whatever moment you're in which leads to bigger moments.
现实却是你没办法解决所有问题。但是你能做出一个选择，因为生活就是一道选择题。做好决定，并用一生去履行。你会为这样的人生而奋斗，你要发出声音，站出来，参与其中，主动参加选举，高呼自己的观点，为他人提供帮助，尽可能奉献你的才华和友善。你就可以彻底变革你所在的这个时代。这样才能进入下一个更好的阶段。
Because the truth is, success is it's a process. So I would like to say that many times there are things that look like failure in your life. And I want to clear up because for years at every graduation I've said "there's no such thing as failure". Well, it is. I've said it's no such thing as failure. It's life pointing you into a different direction. It does. It indeed does. But in the moment when you fail. It really feels bad. And it's embarrassing, and it's bad...
因为事实上，成功是一个过程。我想说，很多时候有些事看起来好像是你人生的败笔。我想解释一下，因为这么多年来，每次毕业典礼我都说：“不存在失败这种东西。”我曾经之所以这么说，是想让你们从另一个角度看待失败。但当你们真正失败的时候，那感觉真的糟糕透顶，尴尬又难堪。
And it's going to happen to you if you keep living. But I guarantee you, it also will pass and you will be fine. Why? because everything is always working out for you. When every story is about struggle... I had to have a talk with myself and say. What is the really about? What is this here to show you? My favorite question when in crisis. "What is this here to teach or show me?"
活着就一定会不断面临失败。但是我保证，这一切都会过去的，你会好起来的。为什么呢？因为所有事情都会变得顺利。当每个故事都是关于抗争时，我必须和自己聊一聊。到底发生了什么？这些挫折想告诉我什么道理？我深陷泥潭时最爱问自己“此刻这些经历能教会我什么？想传达给我什么？”
Jeff Weiner, one of my friends and founder of Linkedin says failure is what's going to humble you. Helps you realize how fleeting success can be. At least, traditional measures of success. Because you realize that to some extent, how it is just beyond your control and you invest less in it, in term of the way you define yourself success in term of achieving objectives, in terms of manifesting a mission in terms of manifesting a vision, that's all good. Especially, if what you do can create good in the world. Being true to myself, using the energy of my personality to actually serve the purpose of my soul.
我的一个朋友，同时也是领英的创始人杰夫·维纳，他说挫折使你谦逊，它帮助你意识到，成功是多么转瞬即逝。至少传统意义上的成功是这样。因为你开始明白，在某种程度上，挫折不在你的掌控范围内。给挫折少一点关注，而要重新定义自己，并用完成目标，完成使命，充满愿景来评价衡量成功，这些都很棒。尤其当你所做之事能创造更好的世界，一切就更加值得。对自己坦诚，挖掘自我个性的能量，为自己的灵魂使命而奋斗。
And that purpose I'm here to tell you gets revealed to you daily. It is not just one thing, it's the thread that is connecting the dots of everything that you do. So when I first started television at 19, as I said, I was happy to have a job. But later, through experience, trial, error, some failures recognized that my true purpose was to be an inspiration and a force for good to allow people to see the best of themselves through the work and the stories that we were able to tell. And so, that becomes my legacy. "Your legacy is every life that you touch" And that, I repeat everywhere because it's true. It's not one thing, it's everything. And the most important thing is how you touch other people's lives.
你们可以从日常生活中寻觅到这一使命。这使命不单单指一件事，而是将你所做的每件事，串联起来的整个脉络。当我19岁开始闯荡电视行业时，我很高兴有了一份工作。但在历经无数次犯错和失败的磨练后，我才意识到自己真正的使命是成为正能量的推动者。通过我的工作以及我所分享的故事，来鼓舞大家探寻最好的自己。所有这些都将成为我的遗产。“你的遗产是你触碰的每个生命。”这句真理在我脑海里不断重复。不是单单一件事，而是每件事都在塑造着你。而最重要的是，你要如何触碰其他人的生命。
Every day, you're carving out the path, even when it looks like you're not. All of your actions are creating equal and opposite reactions which is the third law of motion in physics. What you put out is coming back, how you think and what you do is already being done unto you. That is my religion. I live by that. And so, that is created a very blessed and spectacular life for me. And I want the same for you.
每天你都在铺展自己的人生之路，尽管别人看不出来。但你的每个行动，都在创造正向亦或反向的作用力，这也是物理学中的牛顿第三定律。你所输出的，也会反过来影响你的思想。你的所有行为，同样会作用于自己身上。这就是我生存的信念和宗旨。它带给我如此精彩绝伦的人生，我也希望你们能同样拥有。
脱口秀女王奥普拉·温弗瑞在科罗拉多学院毕业演讲上对毕业生们提出了自己的寄语。人生没有失败，也不要等待所谓转机，命运掌握在自己手中。
I especially appreciate and resonate with your class motto. The quote from Angela Davis which says you have to act as if it's possible to radically transform the world and you have to do that all the time.
我很喜欢你们的校训，是引用了安吉拉·戴维斯的一句话：“你必须要像能彻底改变世界一样去行动，而且你要一直做下去。”
I'm here to tell you that you actually do get to transform the world every day by your actions. Samll steps lead to big accomplishments. Your life isn't some big break like everybody says it is, you are waiting on the big break. It's actually about taking one significant life transforming step at a time. So you can pick a problem, literally, any problem. The list is long because there's gun violence and economic inequality and there's media bias and the homeless opportunity and the addicted need treatment and the dreamers need protection and the prison system needs to be reformed. The social safety net needs saving, misogyny needs to stop
我想说，你每天都可以通过自己的行动来改变这个世界。不积跬步，何以成千里？人生也不是处处充满重大的转机。虽然大家总爱说“你需要等待大转机”，但实际上最关键的是，每次改变命运时，所迈出的至关重要的那一步。所以你可以选择聚焦任何一个社会问题。实在是太多了，比如枪支暴力、贫富差距、媒体偏见、无家可归者的不公待遇、毒瘾患者需要治疗、移民需要保护、监狱系统需要改革、社交安全网需要完善、厌女问题需要终止。
And the truth is, you can't fix everything. But what you can do here and now is make a decision because life is about decision. And the decision is that you will use your life in service. You will be in service to life and you will speak up, you will show up, you will stand up, you will sit in, you will volunteer, you will vote, you will shout out, you will help, you will lead a hand, you will offer your talent and your kindness however you can. And you will radically transform whatever moment you're in which leads to bigger moments.
现实却是你没办法解决所有问题。但是你能做出一个选择，因为生活就是一道选择题。做好决定，并用一生去履行。你会为这样的人生而奋斗，你要发出声音，站出来，参与其中，主动参加选举，高呼自己的观点，为他人提供帮助，尽可能奉献你的才华和友善。你就可以彻底变革你所在的这个时代。这样才能进入下一个更好的阶段。
Because the truth is, success is it's a process. So I would like to say that many times there are things that look like failure in your life. And I want to clear up because for years at every graduation I've said "there's no such thing as failure". Well, it is. I've said it's no such thing as failure. It's life pointing you into a different direction. It does. It indeed does. But in the moment when you fail. It really feels bad. And it's embarrassing, and it's bad...
因为事实上，成功是一个过程。我想说，很多时候有些事看起来好像是你人生的败笔。我想解释一下，因为这么多年来，每次毕业典礼我都说：“不存在失败这种东西。”我曾经之所以这么说，是想让你们从另一个角度看待失败。但当你们真正失败的时候，那感觉真的糟糕透顶，尴尬又难堪。
And it's going to happen to you if you keep living. But I guarantee you, it also will pass and you will be fine. Why? because everything is always working out for you. When every story is about struggle... I had to have a talk with myself and say. What is the really about? What is this here to show you? My favorite question when in crisis. "What is this here to teach or show me?"
活着就一定会不断面临失败。但是我保证，这一切都会过去的，你会好起来的。为什么呢？因为所有事情都会变得顺利。当每个故事都是关于抗争时，我必须和自己聊一聊。到底发生了什么？这些挫折想告诉我什么道理？我深陷泥潭时最爱问自己“此刻这些经历能教会我什么？想传达给我什么？”
Jeff Weiner, one of my friends and founder of Linkedin says failure is what's going to humble you. Helps you realize how fleeting success can be. At least, traditional measures of success. Because you realize that to some extent, how it is just beyond your control and you invest less in it, in term of the way you define yourself success in term of achieving objectives, in terms of manifesting a mission in terms of manifesting a vision, that's all good. Especially, if what you do can create good in the world. Being true to myself, using the energy of my personality to actually serve the purpose of my soul.
我的一个朋友，同时也是领英的创始人杰夫·维纳，他说挫折使你谦逊，它帮助你意识到，成功是多么转瞬即逝。至少传统意义上的成功是这样。因为你开始明白，在某种程度上，挫折不在你的掌控范围内。给挫折少一点关注，而要重新定义自己，并用完成目标，完成使命，充满愿景来评价衡量成功，这些都很棒。尤其当你所做之事能创造更好的世界，一切就更加值得。对自己坦诚，挖掘自我个性的能量，为自己的灵魂使命而奋斗。
And that purpose I'm here to tell you gets revealed to you daily. It is not just one thing, it's the thread that is connecting the dots of everything that you do. So when I first started television at 19, as I said, I was happy to have a job. But later, through experience, trial, error, some failures recognized that my true purpose was to be an inspiration and a force for good to allow people to see the best of themselves through the work and the stories that we were able to tell. And so, that becomes my legacy. "Your legacy is every life that you touch" And that, I repeat everywhere because it's true. It's not one thing, it's everything. And the most important thing is how you touch other people's lives.
你们可以从日常生活中寻觅到这一使命。这使命不单单指一件事，而是将你所做的每件事，串联起来的整个脉络。当我19岁开始闯荡电视行业时，我很高兴有了一份工作。但在历经无数次犯错和失败的磨练后，我才意识到自己真正的使命是成为正能量的推动者。通过我的工作以及我所分享的故事，来鼓舞大家探寻最好的自己。所有这些都将成为我的遗产。“你的遗产是你触碰的每个生命。”这句真理在我脑海里不断重复。不是单单一件事，而是每件事都在塑造着你。而最重要的是，你要如何触碰其他人的生命。
Every day, you're carving out the path, even when it looks like you're not. All of your actions are creating equal and opposite reactions which is the third law of motion in physics. What you put out is coming back, how you think and what you do is already being done unto you. That is my religion. I live by that. And so, that is created a very blessed and spectacular life for me. And I want the same for you.
每天你都在铺展自己的人生之路，尽管别人看不出来。但你的每个行动，都在创造正向亦或反向的作用力，这也是物理学中的牛顿第三定律。你所输出的，也会反过来影响你的思想。你的所有行为，同样会作用于自己身上。这就是我生存的信念和宗旨。它带给我如此精彩绝伦的人生，我也希望你们能同样拥有。
