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이상하게 제 옆에 가까이 있던 분도 아니고, 그리 친했거나 좋아하거나 했던 분도 아닌데...
이렇게 가셨다니까 마음 한켠이 왠지 울적해 지는 건 제 오바스러움일까요....
오늘 아침 네이버를 보고 나서야, 스티브잡스가 타계했다는 것을 알게 되었습니다.
유게에도 이분 동영상이랑 번역문을 올려 놓긴 했는데
예전에 중게에 라이노님께서 너무 잘 올려놓으신 글이 있어 이렇게 올려드립니다.
정말 한 세대의 생활 전반에 있어 큰 획을 그은 그 분께, 존경과 애도를 표합니다.
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몇 개월째 이 분께 빠져 있습니다.
Steve Jobs
15년 전 쯤 우연히 만져본 맥 컴퓨터.
당시에는 pc가 도스(?)기반으로 돌아가던 시대였습니다. 잠시였지만 정말 놀라웠습니다. 그 당시의 맥 컴퓨터는 한마디로 말해 지금의 윈도우 시스템처럼 아이콘 클릭으로 프로그램을 실행시킬 수 있는 그런 시스템이었습니다. 맥 컴퓨터는 오래 전부터 편리한 시스템을 구현했던 겁니다. 지금 생각해봐도 신기합니다. 하지만 컴맹에서 벗어나기 힘들어선지, 쓰기가 편해져선지 여전히 윈도우pc가 더 편합니다. 만재아빠께서 열어주신 아이튠즈 세계에서 아이팟..그리고 아이패드까지...특히 아이패드에 대한 감탄이 스티브 잡스 라는 인물에 대한 호감으로 연결되어..책을 읽게 되었습니다. 장단점을 떠나 애플이 IT세계에 변화를 일으키고 있는 것은 분명한 것 같습니다. 이 길이 과연 인류의 미래에 도움이 될지 어떨지는 모르겠지만...우짰든 과학 기술의 발전은 항상 양면성을 동반하고 있으니 꼭 밝지만은 않은 미래이겠지요.
몇 개월 전에 이 책을 읽었습니다.
저자는 스티브 잡스에게서 '혁신'이란 키워드를 꺼내서 이야기를 확장시킵니다.
오늘 다시 책을 꺼내 보니 여기 저기 색연필로 밑줄을 많이 그어 놨더군요.
스티브 잡스는 무에서 유를 창조한 사람이 아니랍니다.
pc를 개발하지 않았고, MP3 플레이어도, 스마트폰과 ,태블릿 PC도 개발하지 않았답니다.
다만 그는 맥과 아이팟, 아이폰, 아이패드로 시장에서 혁신을 일궈냈답니다.
스티브 잡스가 혁신을 이뤄낼 수 있었던 이유 중 하나는
인재를 알아볼 줄 알고, 인재의 능력을 발휘하게끔 하는 능력에 있었다네요.
한 사람의 아이디어와 기술만으로는 절대 혁신을 이룰 수 없답니다.
혁신이란 열정과 재능이 만났을 때 탄생할 수 있다고 합니다.
스티브 잡스의 책을 소개하는 이유는
내 아이를 바라보는 엄마의 마음이 바뀌지 않으면
학업 성적이 우수하지 않은 수많은 아이들과 그들의 엄마들은 신명을 잃어 버리게 되기 때문입니다.
사실 인생이 명문대 나온 순서대로 행복하지 않다는 건 느무나 잘 알고 있는데도 말입니다.
무지 존경하는 안철수 교수님께서 우리 나라 토양에서는 스티브 잡스 같은 사람은 나오기 힘들다고 말씀하신 걸 읽은 적이 있습니다. 그 이유는 실패를 용인하지 않는 사회라 그렇답니다.
실패를 극복하는 과정이 없다면 짜릿한 행복함도 느낄 수 없을 지도 모릅니다.
많은 사람들이 사랑하는 해리포터의 작가 J.K.Rowling도 실패 경험에 대해 높은 가치를 두시더군요.
이 분도 하버드 졸업식에서 '실패와 상상력'의 중요성에 대해 연설하셨습니다.
저는 아이가 아직은 초등생이지만,
아이가 지금까지 보여준 여러 능력으로 판단컨대,
아이와 행복하게 살려면 아무래도 예방주사 같은 걸 맞아야겠다는 생각이 들었습니다.
이 책을 읽고, 아이를 향한 나름의 희망찬 비전을 갖기 위해 노력하고 싶어졌습니다.
다르게 생각하려고 노력합니다.
오늘은 아들넘에게 열받을 수 있지만, 내일은 또 다르게 생각하려고 노력할 겁니다.ㅋ~
아래 동영상은 스티브 잡스가 2005년 스탠포드 대학 졸업식에서 한 연설입니다.
많은 사람들이 이 연설에 깊은 감동을 받고, 자신의 길을 선택하는데 있어서 용기를 얻었다고 하는군요.
저도 이 연설을 들으면 힘이 납니다.
그런데 부작용도 있습니다.
이 연설에서 받은 감동을 그대로 실천하자면, 저는 가정을 내팽개쳐야 하는데..우짤까요??? ^^
요즘 아침 식사 시간에 이 연설을 흘려듣기 합니다.
아이를 위해서가 아니라, 저를 위해서...
또 전치사 하나까지 다 들릴 때까지 흘려 듣기를 할 작정입니다.
매일 되풀이 되는 일상에 지칠 때...
이 연설을 들으면
열심히 살고픈 생각이 불끈 솟습니다.
유효기간이 짧아서 아쉽지만....
초게, 중게 어느 곳에 올릴까 망설이다가
중등 아그들과 어무이들께 더 도움이 되지 않을까 싶어 여기에 올립니다.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Standford Commencement Address 동영상입니다.
또박또박 분명하게 들리는 연설인데도 불구하고
잠시 방심하면 삼천포로 빠져 버리는 징한 흘려듣기..
언제쯤에나 그 날이 올까요~~~^^
연설문을 붙이니 자꾸 잘려서 댓글로 붙입니다.
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하단은 연설문 전문입니다.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
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. So why did I drop out?
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. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. 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. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
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's 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. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
