乔布斯退学抉择

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that was almost as expensive 那几乎和斯坦福大学一样贵。

as Stanford. 斯坦福大学。

And all of my working class parents' savings were being spent on my 我工薪阶层父母的所有积蓄都花在了我的

college tuition. 大学学费上。

After six months, 六个月后，

I couldn't see the value in it. 我看不出它的价值。

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, 我不知道自己这辈子想做什么，

and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. 也不知道大学将如何帮助我弄明白。

And here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their 而我却在这里，花着父母毕生积蓄的

entire life. 钱。

So I decided to drop out 所以我决定退学

and trust that it would all work out okay. 并相信一切都会好起来的。

It was pretty scary at the time, 当时挺吓人的，

but looking back, 但回过头来看，

it was one of the best decisions I ever made. 那是我做过的最好的决定之一。

The minute I dropped out, 我退学的那一刻，

I could stop taking the required classes 我就可以停止上那些必修课了，

that didn't interest me 那些我不感兴趣的课，

and begin dropping in on the ones 并开始旁听那些

that looked far more interesting. 看起来更有趣的课。

It wasn't all romantic. 并非一切都那么浪漫。

I didn't have a dorm room, 我没有宿舍房间，

so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. 所以我睡在朋友房间的地板上。

I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with. 我退还可乐瓶，用五美分的押金买食物。

And I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night 每周日晚上，我都会步行七英里穿过城镇，

to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. 只为在哈瑞奎师那寺庙吃上一顿一周中唯一的好饭。

I loved it. 我很喜欢。

And much of what I stumbled into 我偶然发现的许多东西，

by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. 都是因为我追随好奇心和直觉，后来证明是无价之宝。

Let me give you one example. 让我给你举个例子。

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the 当时，里德学院可能提供了全国最好的书法教学。

country. 全国。

Throughout the campus, 整个校园里，

every poster, every label on every drawer 每一张海报，每一个抽屉上的标签

was beautifully hand calligraphed. 都经过精美的手写书法。