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잡스의 후회스런 인생 이야기
- 그는 결국 인생에서 정말 중요한것이 무엇인지 알았고, 그 이야기를 남기고 떠났다.
I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world.
나는 사업에서 성공의 최정점에 도달했었다.
In other's eyes, my life is an epitome of success.
다른 사람들 눈에는 내 삶이 성공의 전형으로 보일 것이다.
However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to.
그러나 나는 일을 떠나서는 기쁨이라고 거의 느끼지 못한다. 결과적으로, 부라는 것이 내게는 그저 익숙한 삶의 일부일 뿐이다.
At this moment, lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life, I realize all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death.
지금 이 순간에, 병석에 누워 나의 지난 삶을 회상해보면, 내가 그토록 자랑스럽게 여겼던 주위의 갈채와 막대한 부는 임박한 죽음 앞에서 그 빛을 잃었고 그 의미도 다 상실했다.
In the darkness, I look at the green lights from the life supporting machines and hear the humming mechanical sounds, I feel the breath of god of death drawing closer...
어두운 방안에서 생명보조장치에서 나오는 푸른 빛을 물끄럼이 바라보며 낮게 웅웅거리는 그 기계 소리를 듣고 있노라면, 죽음의 사자의 숨길이 점점 가까이 다가오는 것을 느낀다.
Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient weath to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth...
이제야 깨닫는 것은 평생 배굶지 않을 정도의 부만 축적되면 더이상 돈버는 일과 상관 없는 다른 일에 관심을 가져야 한다는 사실이다.
Should be something that is more important.
그건 돈버는 일보다는 더 중요한 뭔가가 되어야 한다.
Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days...
그건 인간관계가 될 수 있고, 예술일 수도 있으며 어린시절부터 가졌던 꿈일 수도 있다.
Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me.
쉬지 않고 돈버는 일에만 몰두하다 보면 결과적으로 비뚤어진 인간이 될 수밖에 없다. 바로 나같이 말이다.
God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.
부에 의해 조성된 환상과는 달리, 하나님은 우리가 사랑을 느낄 수 있도록 감성이란 것을 모두의 마음 속에 넣어 주셨다.
The wealth that I have won in my life I cannot bring with me.
평생에 내가 벌어들인 재산은 가져갈 도리가 없다.
What I can bring is only the memories precipitated by love.
내가 가져갈 수 있는 것이 있다면 오직 사랑으로 점철된 추억 뿐이다.
That's the true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on.
그것이 진정한 부이며 그것은 우리를 따라오고, 동행하며, 우리가 나아갈 힘과 빛을 가져다 줄 것이다.
Love can travel a thousand miles. Life has no limits. Go where you want to go. Reach the height you want to reach. It is all in your heart and in your hands.
사랑은 수천 마일 떨어져 있더라도 전할 수 있다. 삶에는 한계가 없다. 가고 싶은 곳이 있으면 가라. 오르고 싶은 높은 곳이 있으면 올라가보라. 모든 것은 우리가 마음먹기에 달렸고, 우리의 결단 속에 있다.
What is the most expensive bed in the world? "Sick bed"...
어떤 것이 세상에서 가장 비싼 침대일까? 그건 "병석"이다.
You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you.
우리는 운전수를 고용하여 우리 차를 운전하게 할 수도 있고, 직원을 고용하여 우릴 위해 돈을 벌게 할 수도 있지만, 고용을 하더라도 다른 사람에게 병을 대신 앓도록 시킬 수는 없다.
Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost - "Life".
물질은 잃어버리더라도 되찾을 수 있지만 절대 되찾을 수 없는 게 하나 있으니 바로 "삶"이다.
When a person goes into the operating room, he will realize that there is one book that he has yet to finish reading - "Book of Healthy Life".
누구라도 수술실에 들어갈 즈음이면 진작 읽지 못해 후회하는 책 한권이 있는데, 이름하여 "건강한 삶 지침서"이다.
Whichever stage in life we are at right now, with time, we will face the day when the curtain comes down.
현재 당신이 인생의 어느 시점에 이르렀든지 상관 없이 때가 되면 누구나 인생이란 무대의 막이 내리는 날을 맞게 되어 있다.
Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends...
가족을 위한 사랑과 부부간의 사랑 그리고 이웃을 향한 사랑을 귀히 여겨라.
Treat yourself well.
Cherish others.
자신을 잘 돌보기 바란다.
이웃을 사랑하라.
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스티브 잡스가 성공의 정점에 섰을때 했던 이야기 ;
애플의 창업자이고 이후 성공도 했지만 큰 실패를 겪은 이름이었죠. 그리고 재기에 성공하고 지금도 사람들의 교류방식을 정해주는 재밋고 유능한 기업가로 우리 곁에 있지요. 그가 말하는 이야기입니다.
- 아마도 사생아로 났고 입양을 가서 양부모로부터 잘 양육을 받습니다. 그가 스탠포드 대학이란 좋은 데를 다니다가 한학기 마치고 관두는데요 그 이유가 등록금이 너무비싸서 부모님이 대줄 능력도 없고 부모님의 평생의 저축을 다 까먹게 생겼기에 그럴수없다고 결심하고 관두는 것입니다. 그 성품이 착하고 성실합니다. 아마도 뭔가 갈등이 있었겠죠. 그런데 자기 책임으로 돌리고 물러납니다.
- 그가 애플을 설립해서 잘 나가고 있는 중에 이사회로부터 짤립니다. 창업자요 당대의 기술자가 회사로부터 짤리는데 그 이유가 너무 방만한 경영을 한다는 것입니다. 그 일을 당하면서 얼마나 실의에 빠져 해매겟습니까.. 그런데 몇개월지나면서 그는 이번일이 큰 축복이요 기회란 것을 알게됩니다. 자기 자신의 무능을 깨닫고 자기가 책임감에 짓눌려있던데서 헤어날 기회를 잡고 그가 큰 시장을 볼수있는 시야를 가졌답니다. 무엇보다 자신이 일을 사랑하고 잘하는 일을 시작한다는 엄청난 기회를 잡게됩니다.
그는 유명한 NEXT, PIXAR 두 회사를 설립하고 아주 아름다운 만화영화도 만들고 길이남을 산스크리트 체같은 멋진 그래픽 서체를 선보입니다.
- 그가 성공과 실패를 오가면서 자기 자신의 내면의 소리를 듣는 능력을 얻게됩니다. 내면의 소리로부터 일도 시작하고 기쁨도 얻는다는 얘기지요.
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation – the Macintosh – a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. on the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
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