演讲文本

Now in the Hollywood version of my story what would happen is there'd be about three minutes where I would move to Chicago

在我的故事的好莱坞版本中 有大约三分钟时间 关于我搬到芝加哥

And I would suffer mightily probably at night or in the rain There would be music in the background and I would come home at night

然后我在夜色下 风雨中 遭受了巨大的挫折 背景音乐甚为凄惨 我深夜回到住所

To a dog in a giant loft that I could somehow miraculously afford

家里有条狗 而我住在巨大的阁楼之中 真不知道当时我哪有钱买这个

And fall asleep And after those three minutes, I would be discovered by a director

然后睡觉 这三分钟后 我被一个导演发现

Who would cast me to film and I'd walk down the red carpet and my parents would be across the red carpet giving me the thumbs up

他让我去拍电影 然后我走上红地毯 而我的父母在红地毯的另一边 对我竖起大拇指

In the real world story of what happened when I decided to make a big bet on myself and

而真实世界的故事中 我当时之所以决定赌上我的人生

Take the chance to do this because it's what I loved

决定干这一行 是因为我爱它

I was grinding away for a long time and I had no money and we would rehearse during the day

我努力了很长时间 一直穷困潦倒 我们需要在白天排练

And perform to these little theaters at night for free And I was taking classes during the day at Second City as well

然后晚上免费到小剧院表演 白天我还在第二城市接受课程培训

Trying to learn improvisation and I eventually had to get odd jobs because I had no money

学习即兴表演 最终因为没钱 我必须找一些奇怪的工作

So I put my CS degree from Michigan to use wrapping flatware and selling place settings in Crate & Barrel

我将我在密歇根获得的计算机科学学位 用于在Crate&Barrel包装和销售餐具

But while I kept on improvising in Chicago for many years I want to tell you two lessons I learned in that very first year there

但我在芝加哥从事即兴表演的很多年中 我第一年就学到了两点 和大家分享一下

Learning at Second City The first one was

这是在第二城市学到的 第一点是

We had this director at Second City who was instructing a class I was in named Don Depollo

有一位导演在第二城市中的一门课上教过我 他叫唐.德波洛

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介

本视频是推特CEO迪克·科斯托洛在密歇根大学2013年毕业典礼上的演讲。

科斯托洛曾主修计算机专业，但毕业时由于兴趣爱好，放弃了科技企业的录用通知，从事喜剧表演。最后却又歪打正着，回到计算机领域，并成为IT业最成功企业之一的CEO。他通过自己的亲身经历告诉毕业生们，人生最重要的并不是总体规划，而是追随自己的兴趣所在，不要刻意去想着如何影响世界，因为做好自己爱做的事，影响自然会产生。