娜塔莉·波特曼哈佛演讲：把经验的缺乏当作财富
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛2015毕业演讲
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛2015毕业演讲Hello, class 2015.I am so honored to be here today. Dean Khurana, faculty, parents, and most especially graduate students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee.It’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email. “Wow, it is so nice! I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas?”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and that many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh. So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation I’m still insecure about my own worthiness.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason. Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999. When you guys were, to my continued shock and horror, still in kindergarten. I felt like there had been some mistake. That I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth, I would have to prove that I wasn’t just a dumb actress. So I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian. And I didn’t get a ghost writer. But I’m here to tell you today, Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason.Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons. The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-year-old son. And I watched him play arcade games. He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother that I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is his aim and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it.I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the little 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That- that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too. Prizes serve as false idols everywhere. Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today, beyond my being a proud alumna, is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life. Including a not so plastic, not so crappy one and Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lottelling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be terrible trap. I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hell, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent. I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges Chocolate Cherries. Since I’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back pack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands, because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook “most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy” or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be starting over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-page paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1,000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself. I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place. At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurobiology and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual.Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classed on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy,and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason. When I got to my graduation, sitting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at lease you will tomorrow. The prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what id your reason behind it? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theatre is a transformative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imagining. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked: What designer are you wearing? What’s your fitness regime? Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what I might previously have thought was a stupid question. My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them. The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs, running through dining halls screaming: Ooh! Ah! City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps! It’s easy now to romanticize my time here. But I had some very difficult times here too. Come combination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects, and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months led me to some pretty dark moments, particularly during sophomore year. There were several occasions where I started crying in meeting with professors overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took in the motto for my school work. Done. Not good. If only I could finish my work, even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper. I felt that I’ve accomplished a great feat. I repeat to myself. Done. Not good. A couple of years ago, I went to Tokyo with my husband and I ate the most remarkable sushi restaurant. I don’t even eat fish. I’m vegan. So that tells you how good it was. Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about. The restaurant has six seats. My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice. We wondered why they didn’t make a bigger restaurant and be the most popular place in town. Our local friends explains to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small and do only one type of dish: sushi or tempura or teriyaki. Because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. And it’s not about quantity. It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular. I’m still learning that it’s about good and maybe never done. And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to and of course , to ourselves. In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons fordoing my work. The first film I was in came out in 1994. Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born. I was 13 years old upon the film’s release and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim. Ms Portman poses better than she acts. The film had a universally tepid critic response and went on to bomb commercially. That film was called The Professional, or Leon in Europe. And today, 20 years and 35 films later, it is still the film people approach me about the most to tell me how much they loved it, how much it moved them, how it’s their favoritemovie. I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures. I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical success. And also these initial reactions could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legacy. I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences. This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers, and audiences alike. I made Gotya’s Ghost, a foreign independent film and studied art history visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition. I made V for Vendetta, studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground. I made Your Highness, a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own y meaning and not have it determined by box office receipts or prestige. By the time I got to making Black Swan, the experience was entirely my own.I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me, and to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not. It was instructive for me to see for ballet dancers once your technique gets to a certain level, the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or even flaws. Oneballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced. You can never be the best, technically. Some will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self. Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about. I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director who change my last line in the movie to It was perfect.Because my character Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others. So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people. But the true core of my meaning I had already established. And I needed it to be independent of people reactions to me. People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk. A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer. But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drive me do it. I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do. And so the very inexperience that in college had made me insecure made me want to play by others’ rules now is making me actuallytake risks. I didn’t even realize were risks. When Darren asked me if I could do ballet I told him I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed. When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina. It made me work a million times harder and of coursethe magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect. But the point is, if I had known my own limitations I never would have taken the risk. And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences. And that I not only felt completely free, I also met my husband during the filming. Similarly, I just directed my first film.A tale of Love in Darkness. I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me. The film is a period film, completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year-old child as a costar. All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of, as I was completely unprepared for them but my complete ignorance to my own limitations looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Once there, I had to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle. The other half was very hard work. The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career. Now clearly I’m not urging you to to and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so. Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions and allows for a lot of effects that make up for mistakes. he thing I’m saying is , make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now. As we get older, we get more realistic, and that includes about our own abilities or lack thereof. And that realism does us no favors. People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of. That never worked for me. If I’m afraid, I run away.And I would probably urge my child to do the same. Fear protects us in many ways. What has served me is diving into my own obliviousness. Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated. Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try things you never might have tried. Your inexperience is an asset, and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset. I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces so when he starts thinking of the note an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be. You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces. And you don’t take for granted the way how things are. The only way you know how to do things is your own way. You here will all go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that. Each time you set out to do something new your inexperience can wither lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values or you can forge your own path, even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing. If your reasons are your own, your path,even if it’s a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours, and you will control the rewards of what you do by making your internal life fulfilling. At the risk of sounding like a Miss America contestant, the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced havetruly been the human interactions: spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA micro finance organization, meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries tracking with gorilla conservationists in Rwanda. It’s a cliche, because it’s true, that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone. Getting out of your own concerns and caring about some else’s life for a while reminds you that you are not the center of the universe. And that in the ways we’re generous or not we can change the course of someone’s life. Even at work,the small feat of kindness crew members, directors, fellow actors have shown me have had the most lasting impact. And of course, first and foremost, the center of my world is the love that I share with my family and friends. I wish for you that your friends will be with you through it all as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated. My friends from school are still very close. We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’ weddings. We’ve held each other at funerals and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects, helped each other get jobs and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones. And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship as we look at them toddling together. Haggard and disheveled working parents that we are. Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life. I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge. Tricking us into remembering a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers. After 8 months of dark freezing library dwelling. It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back. But as I get farther away from my years here I know that the power of this school is much deeper than weather control. It changed the very question that I was asking to quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel: To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.。
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛演讲之欧阳化创编
2015哈佛毕业演讲(英文)：Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.DeanKhurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!””I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remindmyself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.S o I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 stepsand was already imagining him as a major league player with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common trollI think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew Iwould be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper befor e. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told youthat. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines,and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Mat rix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force howprofessor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common questio n I’m asked:What designer are you wearing?What’s your fitness regime?Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid question.My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.The wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs.running through dining halls screaming.Ooh!Ah!Citysteps!Citysteps!Citysteps!City steps!It’s ea sy now to romanticize my time here.ButIhad some very difficult times here too.Some combination of being 19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty dark moments,particularly during sophomore year.There were several occasions where I started cryingin meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Notgood.If only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.I felt I’v e accomplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was.Even with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.The restaurant has six seats.My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice.We wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in town.Our local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or teriyaki.Because they want to do things well and beautiful.And it’s not about quantity.It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of theparticular.I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done.And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reason for doing my work.The first film I was in came out in 1994.Again,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,[Ms Portman poses better than she acts],The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb commercially.That film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’ And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the film people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite movie.I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremosttrophies in my industry/financial and critical success.And also these initial reaction could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legacy.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a fo reign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground.I made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own,I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me. And to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not.It was instructive for me to see ballet dancers,once yourtechnique gets to a certain level,the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or flaws.(怪异甚至瑕疵).One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced.You can never be the best,technically.Someone will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line.The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self.Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about.I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director whom changed my last line in the movie to:It was perfect.Because my characte Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself,not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others.So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades.I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people.But the true core of my meaning I had already established.And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk.A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer.But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it.I was so oblivious to my own limits that Idid things I was woefully unprepared to do.And so the very inexperience that in college had made me feel insecure.and made me want to play by others’rules.Now is making me actually take risks.Ididn’t even realize were risks.When Darren asked me if I could do ballet,I told him that I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed.When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina.It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect.But the point is,if I had known my own limitations,I never would have taken the risk.And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences.And that I not only felt completely free,I also met my husband during the filming. Similarly,I just directed my first film,A Tale of Love in Darkness.I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me.The film is a period film,completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year old child as a costar.All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of,as I was completely unprepared for them.but my complete ignorance to my own limitation looked likeconfidence and got me into the director’s chair.Oncethere,I had to figure it all out,and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle.The other half was very hard work.The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career.Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so!Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions,and allows for a lot effects that make up for mistakes.The thing I’m saying is,make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now.Aa we get older,we get more realistic,and that includes about our abilities or lack thereof.And that realism does us no favors.People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of.That never worked for me.If I’m afraid,I run away.And I would probably urge my child to do the same.Fear protects us in many ways.What has served me is diving into my obliviousness.Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids,and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated.Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you tryyou never might have tried.You inexperience is an asset,and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways.Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces,so when he starts thinking of the note and existing piece immediately comes to mind.Just starting out one of your biggest strengths,is not knowing how things are supposed to be.You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces.And you don’t take for granted the way how things are.The only way you know how to do things is your own way.You here will go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that.Each time you set out to do something new,your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values,or you can forge your own path.Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing.If your reason are your own.Yourpath,even if it is a strange and clumsy path,will be wholly yours.And you will control the rewards of what you do,but making your internal life fulfilling .Atthe risk of sounding like America contestant,the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the humaninteraction:spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization,meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya;with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries,tracking with gorilla conservationists(自然保护主义) in Rwanda.It’s a cliche(这是老生常谈),because it’s true,that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone.Getting out of your concerns,and caring about some else’s life for a while,reminds you that you are not the center of the univ erse.And that in the ways we’re generous or not,we can change the course of someone’s life.Even at work,the small feat of kindness,crewmembers,directors,fellow actors have shown me,have had the most lasting impact.And of course,first and foremost,the center of my world,is the love that I share with my family and friends.I wish you that your friends will be with you through it all,as my friends from Harvard have been together sincewe graduated.My friends from school are still very close.We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’weddings.We’ve held each other at funerals,and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects,helped each other get jobs,and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones.And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship,as we look at them toddling together.Haggard and disheveled working parents(疲惫而凌乱的上班族家长) that we are.Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you,is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering,a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers.(阳光洒满院子，人们扔着飞盘欢声笑语的场景).After 8 months of dark dwelling.It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather,as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back.But as I get further away from my years here,I know the power of this school is much deeper than weather control.It changedthe very question that I was asking.To quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel:To be or not to be is not the question,the vital question is:how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.。
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛演讲
2015哈佛毕业演讲英文：Hello, class of am so honest to be here Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.”Wow This is so nice””I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a I didn’t get a ghost I am here to tell you is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes yourinsecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere圣经里的false idol. Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Ofcourse, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’dgotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard thatwas serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I havefound or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind itMy Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked:What designer are you wearingWhat’s your fitness regime Any makeup tipsBut I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library through dining halls AhCity stepsCity stepsCity stepsCity stepsIt’s easy now to romanticize my time Ihad some very difficult times here combination of being 19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much timemissing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty dark moments,particularly during sophomore were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Not only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page felt I’ve accomplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m that tells you how good it with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed restaurant has six husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or they want to do things well and it’s not about ’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the ’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reasonfor doing my first film I was in came out in ,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,Ms Portman poses better than she acts,The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the film people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremost trophies in my industry/financial and critical also these initial reaction could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could glean meaningful thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a foreign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride andlaughed for 3 months was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own,I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me. And to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or was instructive for me to see ballet dancers,once your technique gets to a certain level,the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or flaws.怪异甚至瑕疵.One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off can never be the best, will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful only thing you can be the best at is developing your own your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was worked with Darren Aronofsky the director whom changed my last line in the movie to:It was my characte Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself,not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving felt honored and grateful to have connected with the true core of my meaning I had already I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to told me that Black Swan was an artistic scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to so the very inexperience that in college had made mefeel made me want to play by others’is making me actually take didn’t even realize were Darren asked me if I could do ballet,I told him that I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final the point is,if I had known my own limitations,I never would have taken the the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal that I not only felt completely free,I also met my husband during the filming.Similarly,I just directed my first film,A Tale of Love in was quite blind to the challenges ahead of film is a period film,completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year old child as a of these are challenges I should have been terrified of,as I was completely unprepared for my complete ignorance to my own limitation looked like confidence and got me into the director’s there,I had to figure it all out,and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the other half was very hard experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do soMaking movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions,and allows for a lot effects that make up for thing I’m saying is,make use of the fact that you don’tdoubt yourself too much right we get older,we get more realistic,and that includes about our abilities or lack that realism does us no always talk about diving into things you’re afraid never worked for I’m afraid,I run I would probably urge my child to do the protects us in many has served me is diving into my more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids,and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego , it can be a good thing if it makes you try you never might have inexperience is an asset,and will allow you to think in original and unconventional your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces,so when he starts thinking of the note and existing piece immediately comes to starting out one of your biggest strengths,is not knowing how things are supposed to can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many you don’t take for granted the way how things only way you know how to do things is your own here will go on to achieve great is no doubt about time you set out to do something new,your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values,or you can forge your own though you don’t realize that’s what you’re your reason are your path,even if it is a strange and clumsy path,will be wholly you will control the rewards of what you do,butmaking your internal life fulfilling .At the risk of sounding like America contestant,the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the humaninteraction:spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization,meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya;with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries,tracking with gorilla conservationists自然保护主义in ’s a cliche这是老生常谈,because it’s true,that helping others ends up helping you more than out of your concerns,and caring about some else’s life for a while,reminds you that you are not the center of the that in the ways we’re generous or not,we can change the course of someone’s at work,the small feat of kindness,crew members,directors,fellow actors have shown me,have had the most lasting impact.And of course,first and foremost,the center of my world,is the love that I share with my family and wish you that your friends will be with you through it all,as my friends from Harvard have been together since we friends from school are still very have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’’ve held each other at funerals,and rocked each other’s new worked together on projects,helped each other get jobs,and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad now our children are creating a second generation offriendship,as we look at them toddling and disheveled working parents 疲惫而凌乱的上班族家长that we the good people around you and don’t let them biggest asset this school offers you,is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in us into remembering,a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers.阳光洒满院子,人们扔着飞盘欢声笑语的场景.After 8 months of dark was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather,as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come as I get further away from my years here,I know the power of this school is much deeper than weather changed the very question that I was quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel:To be or not to be is not the question,the vital question is:how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.。
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娜塔莉波特曼哈佛演讲
2015哈佛毕业演讲 (英文)：令狐采学Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.DeanKhurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!””I’m gonna need some funny gh ost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason. Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t justdumb actress.So I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, to o, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innatetendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high schoo l. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest.When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared peopl e would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even su re I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselve s to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confiden ce alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’tshake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myselfthat I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same.I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked:What designer are you wearing?What’s your fitness regime?Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid question.My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.The wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs.running through dining halls screaming.Ooh!Ah!Citysteps!Citysteps!Citysteps!City steps!It’s easy now to romantic ize my time here.ButIhad some very difficult times here too.Some combination of being 19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since beentaken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty dark moments,particularly during sophomore year.There were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Notgood.If only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.I felt I’ve accomplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was.Even with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.The restaurant has six seats.My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice.We wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in town.Our local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or teriyaki.Because they want to do things well and beautiful.And it’s not about quantity.It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the p articular.I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done.And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bringto the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reason for doing my work.The first film I was in came out in 1994.Again,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,[Ms Portman poses better than she acts],The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb commercially.That film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’ And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the film people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite movie.I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremost trophies in my industry/financial and critical success.And also these initial reaction could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legacy.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a foreign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read aboutGoya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground.I made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own,I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me. And to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not.It was instructive for me to see ballet dancers,once your technique gets to a certain level,the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or flaws.(怪异甚至瑕疵).One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced.You can never be the best,technically.Someone will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line.The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self.Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about.I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director whom changed my last line in the movie to:It was perfect.Because my characte Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself,not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others.So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades.I felt honored and grateful to haveconnected with people.But the true core of my meaning I had already established.And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk.A scary challenge to try to portra y a professional ballet dancer.But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it.I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do.And so the very inexperience that in college had made me feel insecure.and ma de me want to play by others’rules.Now is making me actually take risks.Ididn’t even realize were risks.When Darren asked me if I could do ballet,I told him that I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed.When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina.It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect.But the point is,if I had known my own limitations,I never would have taken the risk.And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences.And that I not only felt completely free,I also met my husband during the filming.Similarly,I just directed my first film,A Tale of Love in Darkness.I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me.The film is a period film,completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year old child as a costar.All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of,as I was completely unprepared for them.but my completeignorance to my own limitation looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Oncethere,I had to figure it all out,and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle.The other half was very hard work.The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career.Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so!Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions,and allows for a lot effects that make up for mistakes.The thing I’m saying is,make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now.Aa we get older,we get more realistic,and that includes about our abilities or lack thereof.And that realism does us no favors.People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of.That never worked for me.If I’m afraid,I run away.And I would probably urge my child to do the same.Fear protects us in many ways.What has served me is diving into my obliviousness.Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids,and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated.Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try you never might have tried.You inexperience is an asset,and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways.Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces,so when he starts thinking of thenote and existing piece immediately comes to mind.Just starting out one of your biggest strengths,is not knowing how things are supposed to be.You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces.And you don’t take for granted t he way how things are.The only way you know how to do things is your own way.You here will go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that.Each time you set out to do something new,your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values,or you can forge your own path.Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing.If your reason are your own.Yourpath,even if it is a strange and clumsy path,will be wholly yours.And you will control the rewards of what you do,but making your internal life fulfilling .At the risk of sounding like America contestant,the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the humaninteraction:spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization,meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya;with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries,tracking with gorilla conservationists(自然保护主义) in Rwanda.It’s a cliche(这是老生常谈),because it’s true,that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone.Getting out of your concerns,and caring about some else’s life for a while,reminds you that you are not the centerof the universe.And that in t he ways we’re generous or not,we can change the course of someone’s life.Even at work,the small feat of kindness,crewmembers,directors,fellow actors have shown me,have had the most lasting impact.And of course,first and foremost,the center of my world,is the love that I share with my family and friends.I wish you that your friends will be with you through it all,as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated.My friends from school are still very close.We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’weddings.We’ve held each other at funerals,and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects,helped each other get jobs,and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones.And now our children are creating a se cond generation of friendship,as we look at them toddling together.Haggard and disheveled working parents(疲惫而凌乱的上班族家长) that we are.Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you,is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering,a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers.(阳光洒满院子，人们扔着飞盘欢声笑语的场景).After 8 months of dark dwelling.It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather,as a last memory we shouldkeep in mind that would make us want to come back.But as I get further away from my years here,I know the power of this school is much deeper than weather control.It changed the very question that I was asking.To quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel:To be or not to be is not the question,the vital question is:how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.。
《哈利波特》作者在哈佛演讲：逆境的时候，你才会真正认识自己
《哈利波特》作者在哈佛演讲：逆境的时候，你才会真正认识自己《哈利波特》系列小说被翻译成73种语言，总销售量超过4.5亿本，是世界上最畅销小说之一。
但在这部小说风靡全球之前，JK罗琳经历过一段艰难的岁月。
她通过讲述自己经历过的困苦和收获，告诉大家要坚持梦想、不怕失败，可以从苦难中汲取智慧。
下面是演讲全文：首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面。
现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的格兰芬多（格兰芬多是小哈利所在的魔法学院的名字）聚会上。
发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。
那天做演讲的是英国著名的哲学家Baroness Mary Warnock，对她演讲的回忆，对我写今天的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助，因为我不记得她说过的任何一句话了。
这个发现让我释然，让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途，转而醉心于成为一个快乐的魔法师。
你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得“快乐的魔法师”这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。
建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。
实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。
我问自己什么是我希望早在毕业典礼上就该了解的，而从那时起到现在的21年间，我又得到了什么重要的启示。
我想到了两个答案。
在这美好的一天，当我们一起庆祝你们取得学业成就的时刻，我希望告诉你们失败有什么样的益处；在你们即将迈向“现实生活”的道路之际，我还要褒扬想象力的重要性。
这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。
回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。
可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。
我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情，就是写小说。
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛演讲之欧阳歌谷创作
2015哈佛毕业演讲 (英文)：欧阳歌谷（2021.02.01）Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.DeanKhurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!””I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumbactress.So I st art with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was i n high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staringover in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself.Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I havefound or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked:What designer are you wearing?What’s your fitness regime?Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid question.My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.The wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs.running through dining halls screaming.Ooh!Ah!Citysteps!Citysteps!Citysteps!City steps!It’s easy now to romanticize my time here.ButIhad some very difficult times here too.Some combination of being 19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty darkmoments,particularly during sophomore year.There were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Notgood.If only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.I felt I’ve acco mplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was.Even with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.The restaurant has six seats.My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice.We wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in town.Our local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or teriyaki.Because they want to do things well and beautiful.And it’s not about quantity.It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and bea uty of the particular.I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done.And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reason fordoing my work.The first film I was in came out in 1994.Again,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,[Ms Portman poses better than she acts],The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb commercially.That film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’ And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the fil m people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite movie.I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremost trophies in my industry/financial and critical success.And also these initial reaction could be false predictors o f your work’s ultimate legacy.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a foreign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin toWeather Underground.I made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own,I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me. And to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not.It was instructive for me to see ballet dancers,once your technique gets to a certain level,the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or flaws.(怪异甚至瑕疵).One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced.You can never be the best,technically.Someone will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line.The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self.Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about.I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director whom changed my last line in the movie to:It was perfect.Because my characte Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself,not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others.So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades.I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people.But the true core of my meaning I had already established.And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk.A scarychallenge to t ry to portray a professional ballet dancer.But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it.I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do.And so the very inexperience that in college had made me feel insecure.and made me want to play by others’rules.Now is making me actually take risks.Ididn’t even realize were risks.When Darren asked me if I could do ballet,I told him that I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed.When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina.It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect.But the point is,if I had known my own limitations,I never would have taken the risk.And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences.And that I not only felt completely free,I also met my husband during the filming. Similarly,I just directed my first film,A Tale of Love in Darkness.I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me.The film is a period film,completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year old child as a costar.All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of,as I was completely unprepared for them.but my complete ignorance to my own limitation looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Oncethere,I had to figure it all out,and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle.The other half was very hardwork.The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career.Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so!Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions,and allows for a lot effects that make up for mistakes.The thing I’m saying is,make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now.Aa we get older,we get more realistic,and that includes about our abilities or lack thereof.And that realism does us no favors.People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of.That never worked for me.If I’m afraid,I run away.And I would probably urge my child to do the same.Fear protects us in many ways.What has served me is diving into my obliviousness.Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids,and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated.Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try you never might have tried.You inexperience is an asset,and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways.Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces,so when he starts thinking of the note and existing piece immediately comes to mind.Just starting out one of your biggest strengths,is not knowing how things are supposed to be.You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces.And you don’t take f or granted the way how things are.The onlyway you know how to do things is your own way.You here will go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that.Each time you set out to do something new,your inexperience can either lead you down a path wh ere you will conform to someone else’s values,or you can forge your own path.Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing.If your reason are your own.Yourpath,even if it is a strange and clumsy path,will be wholly yours.And you will control the rewards of what you do,but making your internal life fulfilling .At the risk of sounding like America contestant,the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the humaninteraction:spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization,meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya;with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries,tracking with gorilla conservationists(自然保护主义) in Rwanda.It’s a cliche(这是老生常谈),because it’s true,that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone.Getting out of your concerns,and caring about some else’s life for a while,reminds you that you are not the center of the universe.A nd that in the ways we’re generous or not,we can change the course of someone’s life.Even at work,the small feat of kindness,crewmembers,directors,fellow actors have shown me,have had the most lasting impact.And of course,first and foremost,the center of my world,is the love thatI share with my family and friends.I wish you that your friends will be with you through it all,as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated.My friends from school are still very close.We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’weddings.We’ve held each other at funerals,and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects,helped each other get jobs,and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones.And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship,as we look at them toddling together.Haggard and disheveled working parents(疲惫而凌乱的上班族家长) that we are.Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you,is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering,a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers.(阳光洒满院子，人们扔着飞盘欢声笑语的场景).After 8 months of dark dwelling.It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather,as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back.But as I get further away from my years here,I know the power of this school is much deeper than weather control.It changed the very question that I was asking.To quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel:To be or not to be is not the question,the vital question is:how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do allthe beautiful things you will do.。
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娜塔莉·波特曼哈佛演讲：把经验的缺乏当作财富
文/一米姐【导语】
任何人翻开娜塔莉·波特曼的人生履历，都会倒吸一口冷气。
她在11岁开始演电影，凭借《那个杀手不太冷》一举成名；随后凭借《黑天鹅》成为奥斯卡最年轻的影后。
正是这个拥有完美颜值和演技的女神，竟然还是一个拥有顶级常青藤大学学位的学霸。
哈佛大学2015年的毕业典礼请来娜塔莉·波特曼作为杰出校友代表演讲。
演讲中，波特曼讲述了进入哈佛后对自己的质疑，以及大学期间如何度过一段黑暗时期，还有塑造不同角色时面临的重重挑战，并鼓励大家把经验的缺乏当做财富。
娜塔莉·波特曼：
我今天的感受跟我99年初到哈佛成为新生时的心情一样，说起这件事我还是很震惊，当时你们还上幼儿园呢。
我感觉肯定是哪里出了错，感觉我的智商不配来这。
而我每次开口说话时，都必须要证明我不知是个白痴女演员而已。
有时你的不自信和无经验也会导致你去接受别人的期待、标准或价值，但你们要知道，无经验可以造就你们自己的路，一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担的路，一条由你自己的理由来定义的路。
前几天，我带着快四岁的儿子去游乐场，我看着他玩街机游戏，他玩的无比专注，努力朝着靶子投球。
作为一名犹太裔老妈，我跳过20步，已经开始想象他成为大联盟球手，头球精准，手臂健壮，用心专注，但后来我才明白他想要的是什么。
他玩投球是为了用票换取粗劣的塑料玩具，最终的奖励比游戏的过程更令他兴奋。
我当然想鼓励他享受游戏的快乐和挑战，
不断练习带来的进步，因表现出色而得到的满足感，甚至还有完成游戏目标时的成就感，但这些都比不过一毛钱的塑料小人。
小人伸出黏黏的手臂，还可以贴在墙上，这就是奖励。
从孩子的本性中，我们看到许多自己天生的偏好，我看到了我自己，也许你们也能。
随处可见，奖励被当成虚假偶像来崇拜，威望、财富、名声、权势，你们将来就算不会全部遇到，至少也会遇到其中几个。
当然我今天来演讲的部分原因，除了我是个自豪的哈佛校友之外，就是我在生命中得到了一些非常令人羡慕的玩具：奥斯卡小金人。
在毕业演讲时我们会撞到常见的烦事，那就是成功人士来告诉你，成功带来的结果并非那么值得信任。
但我觉得这种矛盾可以被弥合，而且是有教导意义的。
成就总是美妙的，但你得知道为何这样做。
如果你不知道，它就会变成可怕的陷阱。
我从11岁起就在演戏，但我认为演戏是轻佻且无意义的。
我出身书香门第，非常在意别人是否把我当回事。
我入学只是因为我是名人，别人就是这样看我的，我也是这样看我自己。
在不自信的驱使下，我决定要在哈佛找到严肃而有意义的事情，来改变世界，让世界更美好。
年仅18岁的我已经演了7年戏，以为自己在大学里找到一条更加严肃和深刻的路，所以大一那年秋天我决定修神经生物学和高等现代希伯来文学，因为我很严肃、很智慧。
然而，我发现，为了严肃而严肃，这本身就是一种虚荣，是一种模棱两可，是为了反抗我想象出的自我而采取的一种姿态。
我当演员当然是有原因的，我爱我的职业。
我从我的同伴和导师们身上看到，这不只是一个可以接受的理由，这是最棒的理由。
当年毕业典礼时，坐在你们今天坐的地方，我花了四年时间来寻找其他的东西来让我开心。
我对自己坦白，我真是等不及回去拍更多的电影了。
我想要讲述故事，想想别人的生活，并帮助别人做到同样的事。
我找到了，或者说重拾了我的理由。
你们现在拿到了奖励，那就是你们手中的哈佛毕业证，但你背后的理由是什么？
哈佛学位对我来说，是我在这里被激发的好奇心和创造力，是我维系的友谊，是格莱安姆教授告诉我不要去描述光线是怎样照进花朵的，而要描述花朵投下的影子，是斯卡里教授谈到戏剧是一种变革性的宗教力量，是凯瑟琳教授向我们展示视皮质只靠想象就可以被激活。
在我的职业生活中，我花了许多时间，寻找我自己做事的原因。
我的第一部电影《这个杀手不太冷》到的所有评价都是不温不火，而商业方面则是惨败。
而到今天，过了20年，拍完了35部电影之后，它仍是人们见到我时最常提到的片子，他们告诉我多爱这部片子，这片子多感人，说这是他们最爱的电影。
我感到很幸运，我的价值应该来自于电影拍摄过程的体验，来自触碰人心的可能，而不是我们行业最首要的荣誉：商业和影评方面的成功。
而且，最初的反响可能会错误预测了你的作品最终的价值。
于是我开始只挑那些我热爱的事情来做，只选那些我知道能汲取到有意义经验的工作。
当我拍《黑天鹅》时，整个经历都是属于我自己的。
我感觉自己已经刀枪不入，不怕别人怎么用嘴喷怎么用笔骂，也不在意观众是否愿意到影院看我的片子。
我唯一能做到最好的，就是发展自我。
所以当《黑天鹅》取得商业上的成功，而我也开始得到赞扬之时，我觉得荣耀和感恩的是，我接触到了人心，我已经建立了自己价值的真正核心，我需要它不受别人反应的影响。
大家告诉我《黑天鹅》是艺术上的冒险，演艺职业芭蕾舞者是恐怖的挑战，但我觉得促使我去演的并非是勇气或胆量，而是我对自身局限的毫无所知。
我对所做之事压根没有准备。
无经验让我在大学时缺乏自信，让我愿意遵循他人的规则。
如今，它让我敢于接受挑战，那些我根本没意识到是挑战的挑战。
同样，我刚知道了第一部电影《爱与黑暗的故事》，我对横在面前的挑战一无所知，这是一部时代片，对白全是希伯来语，我也在片中出演，和8岁的小演员对戏。
我本该被这些挑战吓到，因为我对此毫无准备，但我对自身局限的彻底无知像是种自信，而且让我坐上导演椅。
在这个位置上，我必须把这些弄清楚，即便所有的证据都显示我能力不足，我仍相信自己能搞定这些事，这还只是战斗的一半。
另一半靠的是拼命的工作。
我要说的是，要好好利用你如今不是那么怀疑自己这件事，随着年龄增长，我们变得更加现实，这包括对我们自己能力和缺陷的认知，而这种现实对我们没有好处。
人们总说要放手去做你害怕的事，这对我来说行不通，如果我害怕，我就会跑掉，而我也会劝我的孩子这样做。
恐惧在很多方面保护了我们，对我有用的是，投入到自己的无知当中。
超越本身的过度自信，人们常用这事来谴责美国孩子，还有那些分数膨胀自我膨胀的人，其实如果能让你尝试从不敢尝试之事，这也未尝不是好事。
你的无经验是种财富，能让你有原创和跳出常规的点子，接受你经验上的缺乏，把它当成财富来用。
【结语】
从本周日开始的三天，又有一部分的莘莘学子为更好地未来奋笔疾书着。
对于你们即将面对的世界，一米姐特献此文：青春是最好的财富，被允许没有经验、允许犯错……因为这一切才是——真正的青春。
文章来源:一米-互联网金融平台。