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世界十大最著名毕业典礼上的演讲 David Foster Wallace, Kenyon, 2005 　　Words of Wisdom:　　”‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”　　This address at Kenyon was vintage Wallace: a smart, occasionally meandering discussion of the issues that consumed him, from the banality of life to the meaning of consciousness. “I know that this stuff probably doesn’t sound fun and breezy and grandly inspirational,?he concluded. 揥hat it is, so far as I can see, is the truth ?The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.?All the reasons Wallace didn抰 make it to 50 are apparent here; in hindsight, the speech reads like the first draft of a suicide note for an author who took his own life last year at age 46. While it抯 a macabre read, there抯 tons that抯 worthwhile here: the speech crackles with wit and intelligence ?and offers tricks for escaping the depression to which Wallace ultimately succumbed。　　David Foster Wallace，美国著名小说作家、评论家、幽默作家，代表作《无尽的玩笑》，入选《时代周刊》“百部最佳英文小说”。David Foster Wallace2008年9月13日患抑郁症自杀家中，享年46岁。 Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005 　　Words of Wisdom:　　”No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life抯 change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true。　　”Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.