2016哈佛毕业演讲——斯皮尔伯格

2016哈佛毕业演讲——斯皮尔伯格非常感谢，Faust校长，Paul Choi校长，谢谢你们。

Thank you, thank you, President Faust, and Paul Choi, thank you so much.非常荣幸能被邀请成为哈佛2016年毕业典礼的演讲嘉宾，在众位优秀的毕业生、热情的朋友和诸位家长前做此次演讲。

今天我们集聚一堂，祝贺2016届哈佛毕业生顺利毕业。

It’s an honor and a thrill to address this group of distinguished alumni and supportive friends and kvelling parents. We’ve all gathered to share in the joy of this day, so please join me in congratulating Harvard’s Class of 2016.我清楚记得自己的毕业典礼，因为它发生在14年前。

你们有多少人花了37年毕业的？像你们大多数一样，我也是十几岁时开始上大学，但是我大二时获得了好莱坞环球影城的理想工作机会，所以我辍学了。

我告诉我父母，如果我的电影事业发展的不顺利，我会重新入学。

I can remember my own college graduation, which is easy, since it was only 14 years ago. How many of you took 37 years to graduate? Because, like most of you, I began college in my teens, but sophomore year, I was offered my dream job at Universal Studios, so I dropped out. I told my parents if my movie career didn’t go well, I’d re-enroll.但我的电影事业一切进展顺利。

It went all right.最后，我因为很重要的原因重新回到学校。

不同的人因为不同的理由回到大学里读完学业，有人为了教育，有人为了父母，我是为了我的孩子。

我是七个孩子的父亲，一直强调上大学的重要性，但是我却没有上完大学。

所以，在我50岁时，我重新回到加州州立大学长滩分校就读，并且获得学位。

另外补充一点：因为我拍摄的三部《侏罗纪公园》，古生物学课给了我学分，非常感谢。

But eventually, I returned for one big reason. Most people go to college for an education, and some go for their parents, but I went for my kids. I’m the father of seven, and I kept insisting on the importance of going to college, but I hadn’t walked the walk. So, in my fifties, Ire-enrolled at Cal State -- Long Beach, and I earned my degree. I just have to add: It helped that they gave me course credit in paleontology for the work I did on Jurassic Park. That’s three units forJurassic Park, thank you.当然，我选择辍学是因为我清楚地知道我想做什么。

你们当中有些人或许清楚地知道自己想做什么，有些人却并不知道。

也许你曾经认为知道了自己想做什么，但现在却在质疑自己的选择；也许你们正坐在这里，试图找到方法告诉自己的父母你想成为一名医生而不是喜剧作家。

Well I left college because I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and some of you know, too -- but some of you don’t. Or maybe you thought you knew but are now questioning that choice. Maybe you’re sitting there trying to figure out how to tell your parents that you want to be a doctor and not a comedy writer.你们接下来选择做的事情，在电影里我们称作为“角色定义时刻”（character defining moment)。

有些时刻场景你们非常熟悉，比如《星球大战：原力觉醒》里，Rey意识到身体里的原力，或者是《夺宝奇兵》里印第安那·琼斯战胜恐惧自愿送入“蛇口”。

Well, what you choose to do next is what we call in the movies the ‘character-defining moment.’Now, these are moments you’re very familiar with, like in the last Star Wars: The Force Awakens, when Rey realizes the force is with her. Or Indiana Jones choosing mission over fear by jumping over a pile of snakes.一部两个小时的电影里，你会看到很多角色定义时刻，但是现实生活中，你每天都会遇到。

人生如戏，人生是一系列强有力的“角色定义时刻”。

我很幸运18岁的时候就清楚自己想要做什么，但是我却不清楚“我是谁”。

怎么会呢？我们怎么会不知道自己是谁呢？因为我们25岁之前，我们一直都在听取别人的声音，家长、老师向我们灌输智慧和信息，领导、导师以他们的角度告诉我们世界如何运转。

Now in a two-hour movie, you get a handful of character-defining moments, but in real life, you face them every day. Life is one strong, long string of character-defining moments. And I was lucky that at 18 I knew what I exactly wanted to do. But I didn’t know who I was. How could I? And how could any of us? Because for the first 25 years of our lives, we are trained to listen to voices that are not our own. Parents and professors fill our heads with wisdom and information, and thenemployers and mentors take their place and explain how this world really works.通常这些“声音”有权威性而且奏效，但有时怀疑会涌进我们的内心，尤其是当我们独立思考、发现这与我们的世界观并不一致时。

一段时间内我们是可以允许自己压抑自己的想法、与这些矛盾共存的，允许它们定义我们自己的性格，就像哈利·尼尔森唱的“每个人都在议论我，所以我听不到自己内心”。

And usually these voices of authority make sense, but sometimes, doubt starts to creep into our heads and into our hearts. And even when we think, ‘that’s not quite how I see the world,’it’s kind of easier to just to nod in agreement and go along, and for a while, I let that going along define my character. Because I was repressing my own point of view, because like in that Nilsson song, ‘Everybody was talkin’at me, so I couldn’t hear the echoes of my mind.’起初，我需要听取的内心声音几乎不可闻，很难被注意到，就像我高中时期。

但是一旦我开始留意内心所想，直觉就会降临。

And at first, the internal voice I needed to listen to was hardly audible, and it was hardly noticeable -- kind of like me in high school. But then I started paying more attention, and my intuition kicked in.我想大家需要明确一点：直觉并不同于意识。

它们通常同时运作，但是有一点不同的是：你的意识会告诉你这是你应该做的，然而直觉会悄悄说这是你能做的，听从那个告诉你能做什么的声音，没有什么比它更能定义你的角色。

And I want to be clear that your intuition is different from your conscience. They work in tandem, but here’s the distinction: Your conscience shouts, ‘here’s what you should do,’while your intuition whispers, ‘here’s what you could do.’Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that.当我选择项目时，我会听从我的直觉，全力投入到一些项目中去，而放弃其他。