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I want to discuss with you this afternoon why you're going to fail to have a great career. (Laughter)

I'm an economist. I do dismal. ||Είμαι απαίσιος. ||Ich mache trostlos. ||похмурий Eu sinto triste. End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. |||||||ζοφερός|παρατηρήσεις I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career. I know some of you have already decided you want a good career. You're going to fail, too — (Laughter) — because — Goodness, you're all cheery about failing. ||||||||||радісний|| Você também vai falhar - (Risos) - porque - Deus, todos estão animados por falhar. (Laughter) Canadian group, undoubtedly. |||безсумнівно (Risos) Grupo canadense, sem dúvida. (Laughter) Those trying to have good careers are going to fail, because, really, good jobs are now disappearing. There are great jobs and great careers, and then there are the high-workload, high-stress, bloodsucking, soul-destroying kinds of jobs, and practically nothing in between. |||||||||||||φόρτος εργασίας||||||||||||| Existem ótimos empregos e ótimas carreiras, e existem os trabalhos de alta carga de trabalho, alto estresse, sugadores de sangue e destruidores de almas, e praticamente nada no meio.

So the people looking for good jobs are going to fail. I'm going to talk about those looking for great jobs, great careers, and why you're going to, why you're going to fail. First reason is that no matter how many times people tell you, "If you want a great career, you have to pursue your passion, you have to pursue your dreams, you have to pursue, the greatest fascination in your life," you hear it again and again and then you decide not to do it. |||||||||||||||||||||κυνηγήσεις|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||переслідувати|||||||||||||||||||| It doesn't matter how many times you download Steven J. 's Stanford commencement address, you still look at it and decide not to do it. ||ομιλία αποφοίτησης|||||||||||| I'm not quite sure why you decide not to do it. You're too lazy to do it. It's too hard. You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it, you'll feel like you're an idiot, so then you make excuses about why you're not going to look for your passion. And they are excuses, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to go through a whole long list, your creativity, and thinking of excuses not to do what you really need to do if you want to have a great career. ||||||||||||||виправдання||||||||||||||||| So, for example, one of your great excuses is, "Well, great careers are really and truly, for most people, just a matter of luck, so I'm going to stand around, I'm going to try to be lucky, and if I'm lucky, I'll have a great career. If not, I'll have a good career." But a good career is an impossibility, so that's not going to work. Then, your other excuse is, "Yes, there are special people who pursue their passions, but they are geniuses. They are Steven J. I'm not a genius. When I was five, I thought I was a genius, but my professors have beaten that idea out of my head long since." (Laughter) Mm? "And now I know I am completely competent." |||||||здатний Now, you see, if this was 1950, being completely competent, that would have given you a great career. But guess what? This is almost 2012, and saying to the world, "I am totally, completely competent," is damning yourself with the faintest of praise. ||||||||||||ικανός||καταδικαστικό|τον εαυτό σου|||ασθενέστερο έπαινο||επαίνου ||||||||||||||підкреслюючи недоліки|||||| Isso é quase 2012, e dizer ao mundo: "Sou totalmente, completamente competente" está se condenando com o menor elogio. And then, of course, another excuse: "Well, I would do this, I would do this, but, but, well, after all, I'm not weird. Everybody knows that people who pursue their passions are somewhat obsessive. A little strange? Mm? Mm? Okay? You know, a fine line between madness and genius. I'm not weird. I've read Steven J. 's biography. Oh my goodness. I am not that person. I am nice. I am normal. I'm a nice, normal person, and nice, normal people don't have passion. Ah. But I still want a great career. I'm not prepared to pursue my passion, so I know what I'm going to do, because I have, I have a solution, I have a strategy. It's the one Mommy and Daddy told me about. Mommy and Daddy told me that if I worked hard, I'd have a good career. So, if you work hard and have a good career, if you work really, really, really hard, you'll have a great career. Doesn't that, like, mathematically make sense?" Hmm. Not. (Laughter) But you've managed to talk yourself into that. You know what? Here's a little secret. You want to work? You want to work really, really, really hard? You know what? You'll succeed. The world will give you the opportunity to work really, really, really, really hard, but are you so sure that that's going to give you a great career when all the evidence is to the contrary? |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||αποδείξεις||||αντίθετο |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||докази||||протилежне So let's assume, let's deal with those of you who are trying to find your passion. ||ας υποθέσουμε||||||||||||| You actually understand that you really had better do it, never mind the excuses. You're trying to find your passion, and you're so happy. You found something you're interested in. I have an interest! I have an interest! You tell me. You say, "I have an interest!" I say, "That's wonderful! And what, what are you trying to tell me? That you — " "Well, I have an interest." I say, "Do you have passion?" "I have an interest," you say. Your interest is compared to what? "Well, I'm interested in this." And what about the rest of humanity's activities? "I'm not interested in them." You've looked at them all, have you? "No. Not exactly. " Passion is your greatest love. Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. Passion, interest -- it's not the same thing. Are you really going to go to your sweetie and say, "Marry me! You're interesting." (Laughter) Won't happen. Won't happen, and you will die alone. (Laughter)

What you want, what you want, what you want, is passion. It is beyond interest. You need 20 interests, and then one of them, one of them might grab you, one of them might engage you more than anything else, and then you may have found your greatest love in comparison to all the other things that interest you, and that's what passion is. ||||||||||||τραβήξει||||||συναρπάσει||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| I have a friend, proposed to his sweetie. He was an economically rational person. He said to his sweetie, "Let us marry. Let us merge our interests. " ||συγχωνεύσουμε|| ||об'єднати|| (Laughter)

Yes he did. "I love you truly," he said. "I love you deeply. I love you more than any other woman I've ever encountered. ||||||||||συναντήσει I love you more than Mary, Jane, Susie, Penelope, Ingrid, Gertrude, Gretel -- I was on a German exchange program then." |||||||Susie|Penelope|Ingrid|Gertrud||||||||| (Laughter) "I love you more than — " All right! She left the room halfway through his enumeration of his love for her. |||||||απαρίθμηση||||| |||||||Aufzählung||||| After he got over his surprise at being, you know, turned down, he concluded he'd had a narrow escape from marrying an irrational person, although he did make a note to himself that the next time he proposed, it was perhaps not necessary to enumerate all of the women he had auditioned for the part. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||δοκιμάσει για ρόλο|||τον ρόλο ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||aufzählen|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||пробував||| (Laughter)

But the point stands. ||αλλά το νόημα παραμένει|αλλά το νόημα παραμένει You must look for alternatives so that you find your destiny, or are you afraid of the word "destiny"? Does the word "destiny" scare you? |||доля|| That's what we're talking about, and if you don't find the highest expression of your talent, if you settle for "interesting," what the hell ever that means, do you know what will happen at the end of your long life? ||||||||||||||||||συμβιβάζεσαι με||||||||||||||||||||| Your friends and family will be gathered in the cemetery, and there, beside your gravesite will be a tombstone, and inscribed on that tombstone, it will say, "Here lies a distinguished engineer who invented Velcro." ||||||||||||||Grabstätte|||||||||||||||||||| But what that tombstone should have said, in an alternative lifetime, what it should have said if it was your highest expression of talent, was, "Here lies the last Nobel Laureate in Physics, who formulated the Grand Unified Field Theory and demonstrated the practicality of warp drive. " ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Νομπελίστας Φυσικής|||||||||||||||στρέβλωση χώρου| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Warp-Antrieb| Mas o que aquela lápide deveria ter dito, em uma vida alternativa, o que deveria ter dito se fosse sua maior expressão de talento, foi: "Aqui está o último Prêmio Nobel de Física, que formulou a Grande Teoria do Campo Unificado e demonstrou a praticidade. do warp drive ". (Laughter) Velcro, indeed. ||дійсно (Laughter)

One was a great career. One was a missed opportunity. But then, there are some of you, in spite of all these excuses, you will find, you will find your passion, and you'll still fail. Mas então, existem alguns de vocês, apesar de todas essas desculpas, você encontrará, encontrará sua paixão e ainda falhará. You're going to fail, because, because you're not going to do it, because you will have invented a new excuse, any excuse to fail to take action, and this excuse I've heard so many times. "Yes, I would pursue a great career, but I value human relationships more than accomplishment. ||||||||||||||επίτευγμα ||||||||||||||досягнення "Sim, eu seguiria uma ótima carreira, mas valorizo mais as relações humanas do que realizações. I want to be a great friend. I want to be a great spouse. ||||||партнер I want to be a great parent, and I will not sacrifice them on the altar of great accomplishment. " (Laughter)

What do you want me to say? Now, do you really want me to say now, tell you, "Really, I swear I don't kick children." ||||||||||||||||б'ю| Agora, você realmente quer que eu diga agora, diga: "Realmente, juro que não chuto crianças". (Laughter) Hmm? Look at the worldview you've given yourself. Veja a visão de mundo que você se deu. You're a hero no matter what, and I, by suggesting, ever so delicately, that you might want a great career, must hate children. I don't hate children. I don't kick them. Yes, there was a little kid wandering through this building when I came here, and no, I didn't kick him. (Laughter)

Course, I had to tell him that the building was for adults only and to get out. Claro, eu tive que dizer a ele que o prédio era apenas para adultos e sair. He mumbled something about his mother, and I told him she'd probably find him outside anyway. |μουρμούρισε κάτι|||||||||||||| Ele murmurou algo sobre sua mãe, e eu disse a ele que provavelmente o encontraria lá fora de qualquer maneira. Last time I saw him, he was on the stairs crying. (Laughter) What a wimp. |||Τι φοβιτσιάρης. (Risos) Que covarde. (Laughter)

But what do you mean? That's what you expect me to say. You really think, you really think it's appropriate that you should actually take children and use them as a shield? |||||||||||||||||||ασπίδα |||||||||||||||||||щит Você realmente pensa, realmente acha apropriado que você pegue crianças e as use como escudo? You know what will happen someday, you, you ideal parent, you? The kid will come to you someday and say, "I know what I want to be. I know what I'm going to do with my life." You are so happy. It's the conversation a parent wants to hear, because your kid's good in math, and you know you're going to like what comes next. É a conversa que os pais querem ouvir, porque seu filho é bom em matemática e você sabe que vai gostar do que vem a seguir. Says your kid, "I have decided I want to be a magician. |||||||||||магія I want to perform magic tricks on the stage." Eu quero fazer truques de mágica no palco ". (Laughter)

And what do you say? You say, you say, "Umm ... that's risky, kid. Você diz, diz: "Umm ... isso é arriscado, garoto. Might fail, kid. Pode falhar, garoto. Don't make a lot of money at that, kid. You know, I don't know, kid, you should think about that again, kid, you're so good at math, why don't you — " Você sabe, eu não sei, garoto, você deveria pensar nisso de novo, garoto, você é tão bom em matemática, por que não - " And the kid interrupts you, and says, "But it is my dream. It is my dream to do this." O meu sonho é fazer isso. " And what are you going to say? You know what you're going to say? "Look kid. I had a dream once, too, but -- but." So how are you going to finish the sentence with your "but"? Então, como você vai terminar a frase com o seu "mas"? "... But. I had a dream too, once, kid, but I was afraid to pursue it." Eu também tive um sonho, criança, mas tinha medo de persegui-lo. " Or, are you going to tell him this? "I had a dream once, kid. "Eu tive um sonho uma vez, garoto. But then you were born." Mas então você nasceu. " (Laughter)

(Laughter) (Applause)

Do you, do you really want to use your family, do you really ever want to look at your spouse and your kid and see your jailers? ||||||||||||||||||||||||||Gefängniswärter Você realmente quer usar sua família, quer mesmo olhar para seu cônjuge e seu filho e ver seus carcereiros? There was something you could have said to your kid when he or she said, "I have a dream." You could have said, looked the kid in the face, and said, "Go for it, kid, just like I did." Você poderia ter dito, olhou o garoto de frente e disse: "Vá em frente, garoto, como eu fiz". But you won't be able to say that because you didn't. Mas você não será capaz de dizer isso porque não o fez. So you can't. Então você não pode. (Laughter)

And so the sins of the parents are visited on the poor children. E assim os pecados dos pais são visitados nos filhos pobres. Why will you seek refuge in human relationships as your excuse not to find and pursue your passion? |||αναζητάς|καταφύγιο||||||||||||| Por que você procurará refúgio nas relações humanas como sua desculpa para não encontrar e perseguir sua paixão? You know why. In your heart of hearts, you know why, and I'm being deadly serious. No seu coração, você sabe o motivo, e eu estou falando sério. You know why you would get all warm and fuzzy and wrap yourself up in human relationships. Você sabe por que ficava quente e confuso e se envolvia em relacionamentos humanos. It is because you are — You know what you are.

You're afraid to pursue your passion. Você tem medo de seguir sua paixão. You're afraid to look ridiculous. You're afraid to try. You're afraid you may fail. Você tem medo de falhar. Great friend, great spouse, great parent, great career. |||σύζυγος|||| Is that not a package? Isso não é um pacote? Is that not who you are? How can you be one without the other? Como você pode ser um sem o outro? But you're afraid. And that's why you're not going to have a great career, unless -- unless, that most evocative of all English words -- unless. |||||||||||||||συγκινητικός||||| |||||||||||||||heraufbeschwörend||||| E é por isso que você não terá uma ótima carreira, a menos - a menos que seja a mais evocativa de todas as palavras em inglês - a menos. But the unless word is also attached to that other, most terrifying phrase, "If only I had ... " "If only I had ... " If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt a lot. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||αναπηδώντας|||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||im Kopf herumschwirren|||||||| Mas a palavra a menos que também esteja anexada à outra frase mais aterradora: "Se eu tivesse ..." "Se eu tivesse ..." Se você já teve esse pensamento ricocheteando em seu cérebro, isso vai doer muito. So, those are the many reasons why you are going to fail to have a great career, unless ... Então, essas são as muitas razões pelas quais você deixará de ter uma ótima carreira, a menos que ...

Unless.

Thank you. (Applause)