My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life. And being embarrassed when you mess up is part of the human experience. Getting back up, dusting yourself off and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it? That’s a gift. The times I was told no or wasn’t included, wasn’t chosen, didn’t win, didn’t make the cut … looking back, it really feels like those moments were as important, if not more crucial, than the moments I was told "yes."

对于我来说，我的错误也带来了生命中那些最美好的事情。搞砸了某件事情之后的尴尬也是必要的人生体验，因为比尴尬更重要的是跌倒后重新站起来，掸掸灰尘，然后去关注那些经历过磨难之后仍然跟你站在一起，共同笑对磨难的人。失败是命运的礼物，每每回看那些被拒绝、被排斥、落选、失败、未晋级的时刻，就会体会到被否定和被肯定一样重要，甚至比被肯定更重要。

Now you leave the structure and framework of school and chart your own path. Every choice you make leads to the next choice which leads to the next, and I know it’s hard to know sometimes which path to take.

现在你们离开了学校的条条框框，开始规划自己的道路。你们的每一个选择都会导致下一个选择，而下一个选择又会引至再下一个选择，我也知道有时很难知道该走哪条路。

There will be times in life when you need to stand up for yourself. Times when the right thing is to back down and apologize. Times when the right thing is to fight, times when the right thing is to turn and run. Times to hold on with all you have and times to let go with grace. Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform. Sometimes the right thing to do is to listen to the wisdom of those who have come before us. How will you know what the right choice is in these crucial moments?

生活中总会有需要为自己挺身而出的时候；总有需要审视矫正的时候，总有需要坚持往前的时候，总有需要转身离开的时候。人生路口，我们有时需要全力以赴的坚持，有时又需要优雅止损的放手。有时，需要抛弃旧的思想观点，有时，需要听取前人的智慧。情况千变万化，在每一次的关键路口，又怎么会知道正确的选择，到底是什么呢？

For many, the pandemic upended not just the way we live our lives but the way we think about the lives we're living. People are increasingly asking big questions of themselves. What do I really want to do with my life? How do I really want to be? At the heart of it, I think, is one of humanity's most essential questions: what does it take to build the life that provides meaning and fulfillment?

对很多人而言，疫情不但颠覆了我们的生活方式，也颠覆了我们对生活本身的认知。越来越多的人开始问自己这些很大的问题：我究竟想要在这一生做些什么？我究竟想成为什么样的人？我想，这一切的核心，其实就是人类所面对的一个最根本的问题：要怎样才能成就富有意义、充满成就感的人生？

And that is this: whatever you do, lead with your values. By leading with your values, what I mean is that you should make decisions, big and small, each and every day, based on a deep understanding of who you are and what you believe.

无论你做什么，都要从你的价值观出发。从价值观出发的意思就是，当你做决定时 —— 无论这些决定涉及终生大事还是日常琐事 —— 都要基于你对“我是谁”和“我相信什么”这两个问题的深刻理解。

If I've learned anything, it's that the future is unpredictable, even as we put our best efforts into shaping it. And that's okay. As Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, if life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor. And so when you imagine your future, and the winding path that is laid out before you, remember that the question you should ask is not "What will happen?" but "Who will I be when it does?"

以我的经验而言，就算我们竭尽全力去塑造未来，未来依旧无法预测。不过，这也没关系。埃莉诺・罗斯福曾写过这样的话：“如果生活可以预测，那它就不再是生活，也就没有了味道。”当你们畅想未来，想象面前那条蜿蜒曲折的道路时，别忘了你们该问自己的问题不是“未来会发生什么”，而是“当事情发生时，我会是什么样的人”。

Indeed, wisdom is rooted in this willingness – this responsibility – to entertain ideas brought to you by others. To listen carefully. To think critically. To challenge your views – and then to change them when the discovery of truth demands it. As Justice Sonya Sotomayor said recently, “It is, I fear, too easy for people to fail to listen when what they’re hearing is different than what they think.”

事实上，智慧植根于接受他人带给你的想法的意愿，或者说是责任。仔细聆听，批判性地思考，挑战自己的观点，然后为了发现真理而去改变。正如美国最高法院法官索尼娅·索托马约尔（Sonya Sotomayor）最近所说，“我担心，当人们听到的与他们所想的不同时，他们很容易听不进去了。”

As we know, engaging with those who hold profoundly different perspectives threatens not to betray our beliefs, but to broaden them. Listening to that with which we may disagree is an act not of conciliation, but of fidelity to truth. And admitting what we got wrong is no sign of failure, but a necessary step toward knowledge.

与那些持有不同视角的人互动交流，并不会让我们背弃自己的信仰，反而会扩大它。倾听我们可能不认同的观点，并不是一种妥协，而是对真理的忠诚。承认我们的错误并不是失败的标志，而是走向博学的必要过程。

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