I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.
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I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Àú´Â ´ëÇÐÀ» Á¹¾÷ÇÏÁö ¸øÇß½À´Ï´Ù. ¼ÖÁ÷È÷, ž¼ ´ëÇб³ Á¹¾÷½ÄÀ» ÀÌ·¸°Ô °¡±îÀ̼ º¸´Â °ÍÀº óÀ½À̳׿ä.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
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The first story is about connecting the dots.
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I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
Àü ¸®µå Ä®¸®Áö¿¡ ÀÔÇÐÇÑÁö 6°³¿ù¸¸¿¡ ÀÚÅðÇß½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¡µµ ÀÏ³â ¹Ý Á¤µµ´Â µµ°À» µè´Ù, Á¤¸»·Î ±×¸¸µ×½À´Ï´Ù.
So why did I drop out?
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It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.
±× °ÍÀº Á¦°¡ ž±â Àü±îÁö °Å½½·¯ ¿Ã¶ó°©´Ï´Ù. Á¦ »ý¸ð´Â ´ëÇпø»ýÀÎ ÀþÀº ¹ÌÈ¥¸ð¿´½À´Ï´Ù. ±×·¡¼ Àú¸¦ ÀԾ纸³»±â·Î °á½ÉÇß´ø °ÅÁö¿ä.
She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me!
±×³à´Â Á¦ ¹Ì·¡¸¦ »ý°¢ÇØ, ´ëÇÐ Á¤µµ´Â Á¹¾÷ÇÑ ±³¾çÀÖ´Â »ç¶÷ÀÌ ¾çºÎ¸ð°¡ µÇ±â¸¦ ¿øÇß½À´Ï´Ù.
to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.
±×·¡¼ Àú´Â žÀÚ¸¶ÀÚ º¯È£»ç °¡Á¤¿¡ ÀÔ¾çµÇ±â·Î µÇ¾î ÀÖ¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.
Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
±×µéÀº ¿©ÀÚ ¾ÆÀ̸¦ ¿øÇß´ø °É·Î ¾Ë°í ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù.
So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking:
±×µé ´ë½Å ´ë±âÀÚ ¸í´Ü¿¡ ÀÖ´ø ¾çºÎ¸ð´ÔµéÀº ÇÑ ¹ã Áß¿¡ °É·Á¿Â Àüȸ¦ ¹Þ°í :
"We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?"
"¾î¶±ÇÏÁÒ? ¿¹Á¤¿¡ ¾ø´ø »ç³»¾ÆÀÌ°¡ ž´Âµ¥, ±×·¡µµ ÀÔ¾çÇÏ½Ç °Ç°¡¿ä?"
They said: "Of course."
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My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.
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She refused to sign the final adoption papers.
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She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Ä£¾î¸Ó´Ï´Â ¾çºÎ¸ð´ÔµéÀÌ Àú¸¦ ²À ´ëÇбîÁö º¸³»ÁÖ°Ú´Ù°í ¾à¼ÓÇÑ ÈÄ ¸î°³¿ùÀÌ Áö³ª¼¾ß È°¡ Ç®·È½À´Ï´Ù.
And 17 years later I did go to college.
17³âÈÄ, Àú´Â ´ëÇп¡ ÀÔÇÐÇß½À´Ï´Ù.
But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford,
±×·¯³ª Àú´Â ¸ÛûÇÏ°Ôµµ ¹Ù·Î ÀÌ °÷, ½ºÅÄÆ÷µåÀÇ Çкñ¿Í ¸Â¸Ô´Â °ªºñ½Ñ Çб³¸¦ ¼±ÅÃÇß½À´Ï´Ù^^
and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.
Æò¹üÇÑ ³ëµ¿ÀÚ¿´´ø ºÎ¸ð´ÔÀÌ Èûµé°Ô ¸ð¾Æµ×´ø µ·ÀÌ ¸ðµÎ Á¦ Çкñ·Î µé¾î°¬½À´Ï´Ù.
After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.
°á±¹ 6°³¿ù ÈÄ, Àú´Â ´ëÇÐ °øºÎ°¡ ±×¸¸ÇÑ °¡Ä¡°¡ ¾ø´Ù´Â »ý°¢À» Çß½À´Ï´Ù.
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
³»°¡ ÁøÁ¤À¸·Î Àλý¿¡¼ ¿øÇÏ´Â °Ô ¹«¾ùÀÎÁö, ±×¸®°í ´ëÇб³À°ÀÌ ±× °Í¿¡ ¾ó¸¶³ª ¾î¶»°Ô µµ¿òÀÌ µÉÁö ÆÇ´ÜÇÒ ¼ö ¾ø¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.
And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.
°Ô´Ù°¡ ¾çºÎ¸ð´ÔµéÀÌ Æò»ýÅä·Ï ¸ðÀº Àç»êÀÌ ÀüºÎ Á¦ Çкñ·Î µé¾î°¡°í ÀÖ¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.
±×·¡¼ ¸ðµç °ÍÀÌ ´Ù Àß µÉ°Å¶ó ¹Ï°í ÀÚÅ𸦠°á½ÉÇß½À´Ï´Ù.
It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
´ç½Ã¿¡´Â µÎ·Á¿üÁö¸¸, µÚµ¹¾Æ º¸¾ÒÀ»¶§ Á¦ Àλý ÃÖ°íÀÇ °áÁ¤ Áß Çϳª¿´´ø °Í °°½À´Ï´Ù.
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me,
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and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
°ü½ÉÀÖ´Â °ÀǸ¸ µéÀ» ¼ö ÀÖ¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,
±×·¸´Ù°í ²À ³¶¸¸ÀûÀÎ °Í¸¸µµ ¾Æ´Ï¾ú½À´Ï´Ù. Àü ±â¼÷»ç¿¡ ¸Ó¹° ¼ö ¾ø¾ú±â ¶§¹®¿¡ Ä£±¸ Áý ¸¶·í¹Ù´Ú¿¡ Àڱ⵵ Çß°í
I returned coke bottles for the 5¡Ë deposits to buy food with,
ÇÑ º´´ç 5¼¾Æ®¾¿ÇÏ´Â ÄÚÄ«Äݶó ºóº´À» ÆȾƼ ¸ÔÀ» °ÍÀ» »ç±âµµ Çß½À´Ï´Ù.
and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
¶Ç ¸ÅÁÖ ÀÏ¿äÀÏ, ´Ü ÇѹøÀÌ¶óµµ Á¦´ë·Î µÈ À½½ÄÀ» ¸Ô±â À§ÇØ 7¸¶ÀÏÀ̳ª °É¾î¼ ÇÏ·¹ Å©¸®½´³ª »ç¿øÀÇ ¿¹¹è¿¡ Âü¼®Çϱ⵵ Çß½À´Ï´Ù.
I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
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Let me give you one example:
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Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
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Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.
Çб³ °÷°÷¿¡ ºÙ¾îÀÖ´Â Æ÷½ºÅÍ, ¼¶ø¿¡ ºÙ¾îÀÖ´Â »óÇ¥µéÀº ³Ê¹« ¾Æ¸§´Ù¿ü±¸¿ä.
Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes,
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I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
¼Ã¼¿¡ ´ëÇؼ ¹è¿öº¸±â·Î ¸¶À½¸Ô°í ¼Ã¼ ¼ö¾÷À» µé¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.
I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.
±× ¶§ Àú´Â ¼¼¸®ÇÁ¿Í »ê ¼¼¸®ÇÁü¸¦, ´Ù¸¥ ±Û¾¾ÀÇ Á¶ÇÕ°£ÀÇ ±× ¿©¹éÀÇ ´Ù¾çÇÔÀ», ¹«¾ùÀÌ À§´ëÇÑ Å¸ÀÌÆ÷±×·¡ÇǸ¦ À§´ëÇÏ°Ô ¸¸µå´Â Áö¸¦ ¹è¿ü½À´Ï´Ù.
It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
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None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
ÀÌ·± °Íµé Áß ¾î´À Çϳª¶óµµ Á¦ Àλý¿¡ ½ÇÁúÀûÀÎ µµ¿òÀÌ µÉ °Í °°Áö´Â ¾Ê¾Ò½À´Ï´Ù.
But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
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And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
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If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,
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the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.
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And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.
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If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class,
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and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
°á±¹ °³Àοë ÄÄÇ»ÅÍ°¡ ¿À´Ã³¯Ã³·³ ¶Ù¾î³ ±Û¾¾Ã¼µéÀ» °¡Áú ¼öµµ ¾ø¾úÀ» °Ì´Ï´Ù.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.
¹°·Ð Á¦°¡ ´ëÇп¡ ÀÖÀ» ¶§´Â ±× ¼ø°£µéÀÌ ³» ÀλýÀÇ ÀüȯÁ¡À̶ó´Â °ÍÀ» ¾Ë¾Æç ¼ö ¾ø¾ú½À´Ï´Ù.
But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
±×·¯³ª 10³âÀÌ Áö³ Áö±Ý¿¡¼¾ß ¸ðµç °ÍÀÌ ºÐ¸íÇÏ°Ô º¸ÀÔ´Ï´Ù.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
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So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
¿©·¯ºÐµéÀº ÀÚ½ÅÀÇ ¹è¯, ¿î¸í, Àλý, Ä«¸£¸¶(¾÷) µî ¹«¾ùÀ̵çÁö °£¿¡ '±× ¹«¾ù'¿¡ ¹ÏÀ½À» °¡Á®¾ß¸¸ ÇÕ´Ï´Ù.
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