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2022 世界五大名校毕业演讲01=斯坦福大学

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又逢一年毕业季。这个特殊时刻在变幻莫测的时代背景下，凝聚了无数复杂的情感。在人生每个阶段，都可能面临类似的结束和启程，而我们选择和态度，会直接决定生活方式和生命历程。

按照惯例，每年此时，美国各大名校都会邀请校长或名人，用他们丰富的阅历和人生经验，给毕业生提供有价值的建议和指导。

本期特别精选2022美国五大名校毕业演讲。这些充满智慧的言辞，能帮助我们从更宏观的视角拨云见日，在睿智的思考判断下，作出属于自己的正确选择。

我们没有权利选择出生和死亡，却有权利选择生活方式、价值观念及思想境界。愿你能有所领悟，走出属于自己的精彩人生。

永远不要让外界的喧嚣

掩盖你内心真实的声音

▼ 斯坦福大学 Stanford University

6月12日，斯坦福大学举行2022年毕业典礼，校长 Marc Tessier-Lavigne 发表激励人心的毕业演说。

他讲到世界瞬息万变，人生不是一条直线。鼓励大家在不同阶段，都要有改变和适应环境的能力，以此寻求人生价值并服务社会。

以下是校长演讲的精华：

那天，我描述了在斯坦福大学接下来岁月里，你们将意识到生活不是一条从始点到终点的直线，它有你无法预见的曲折、转折和背离。

我们任何人都无法预见这些年的变化。因为疫情，我们被迫关闭校园，大家学习新的合作方式，创建社区，以及在非常时期相互支持。

所有人都在颠覆和适应中，学会了重要一课，明白世界瞬息万变，而每个人都应该学会适应变化。

当我想到生活充满意外时，常说：生命是漫长的，生命是分章节的。

每个人的生活，都有不同的时代。 有些即将到来，另一些则会意外开始。而毕业典礼标志着学生时代的结束，也标志着新篇章的开始。

你可以开始家庭生活的全新篇章，可以搬到世上任何地方，进入个人发展、失落和变化的时代。这些变化将持续终生，就像每个生命都会发生意想不到的曲折一样。

我想跟你们分享斯坦福大学校友 Milt McColl 的故事，他的人生道路，证明了生命是分阶段的。

Milt 是才华横溢的运动员，1977-1980年曾在斯坦福 Cardinal 队担任后卫，并获生物学学士学位。毕业后他与旧金山49人队签约。同一周，被斯坦福医学院录取。

橄榄球后卫 Milt McColl

1981年到1987年，他在49人队担任外线后卫，赢得过两界超级碗锦标赛！淡季则就读斯坦福医学院，并于1988年获得医学博士学位。

在完成NFL职业生涯后，Milt 全身心投入医学领域。但在他开始住院实习前的几个月，接受医疗初创公司的挑战，决定将住院实习推迟一年。谁料到，这一推迟就是30年。

在医疗器械行业的三十年，Milt 非常成功，并最终成为高斯外科公司Gauss Surgical 的首席执行官，开发了手术的实时失血测量设备。

在这期间，Milt 继续利用他的行医执照，在旧金山免费诊所做义务志愿者。在此期间，他深刻意识到，自己最期待的是呆在诊所的日子。

因此经过深思熟虑，Milt 辞去首席执行官的职务，并在56岁时重返斯坦福医学院，开始住院实习。

这是一项艰苦的工作。Milt 已经离开医学院三十年了。他在56岁的年纪，还需要投入精力陪医生查房并应付繁重学业，但他获益匪浅。

Milt 于2019年完成住院实习，之后恰逢新冠疫情。期间他一直在圣克拉拉谷医疗中心社区诊所治疗患者，与医疗资源不足的弱势群体合作，实现了服务社会的人生价值。

另一个真实故事，来自斯坦福1993年新闻专业学生 Sylvia Jones。

Sylvia Jones 毕业之后，开始了电视新闻制片人生涯，曾参与报道了从曼德拉首次访问美国，直至9·11事件，再到奥巴马总统大选的一切。

然后她转入照顾家庭的角色。先是照顾患有绝症的母亲，然后收留了两个无家可归的幼年亲戚。几乎瞬间就从单身变成两个孩子的父母。

这个阶段过去后，多年来，Sylvia 第一次有了专注于自己和想要的东西的时间和空间。她在此意识到，真正渴望的是写作电影和电视剧。

Sylvia 申请了加州大学洛杉矶分校的编剧课程，并在开课前九天从候补名单中转正。所以40多岁时，她重新出发，从芝加哥搬到洛杉矶。

她觉得自己没有时间浪费了，所以敲遍能想到的好莱坞的每一扇门。如今，她是艾美奖作家和知名电视制作人，作品包括《终结者The Endgame》《芝加哥故事 The Chi》《珍惜此日 Cherish the Day》。

他们的故事，完美说明生命是分篇章的，而且是鼓舞人心的篇章！

重要的是：我们都有这样的能力，去改变人生方向，以新的方式运用天赋和能力，找到全新意义，并帮助解决世界所面临的问题。

我知道，疫情打乱了计划，每个人都被迫改变方向，然而如今你们依旧顺利完成学业。随着生活的故事不断展开，我相信你们都能够随着环境的变化而作出适应和改变。

基于此，我想分享三点建议：首先是终身学习和探索的重要性。

这些年，你们已经掌握了继续学习、探索和适应变化的技能。除了所学的知识，还能利用技能，通过服务来解决现实世界的问题。

我希望你继续使用技能和知识，为社会服务。它除了能够为你们提供成就感之外，还能让你保持敏锐，并在未来探索全新的想法。

这就引出了我的第二点：在保持知识和技能的同时，还应该继续寻找不同的观点，并在头脑中留出空间，来容纳不同的观点。

大学你们遇到各种各样的观点，参与不同领域的对话，这绝非易事。但校园之外，世界日益分裂，而接纳不同是时代的必备技能。

当进入人生的全新篇章时，我鼓励你们继续与不同声音接触，寻求讨论和辩论。 尊重自己的价值观的同时，以开放的心态向他人学习，并继续在讨论中，展示最好的一面。

第三，我敦促每个人想象更加光明的未来，并做出自己独特的贡献。

世界面临许多挑战，从新出现的疾病到虚假信息，再到气候危机和地缘政治的紧张。你们每人都有能力应对这些挑战，让世界变得更好。

在过去两年的混乱中，我们都有机会重新评估价值观，反思什么能带给我们的真正的意义和成就感。

因此，即使你们在庆祝你们所取得的一切成就，我也敦促你们每个人花时间反思并问问自己——

我讲如何塑造，能够反映我价值观和理念的未来？我怎样才能帮助社区和世界，创造更光明的未来？

当你沿着道路迈出下一步时，将带着大学的印记。这里所学到的一切将贯穿一生，推动你开启职业生涯，并为未来生活提供无限可能。

英文演讲全文

It is one of my great honors, as Stanford’s president, to address our graduates on Commencement day.

Graduates, today we honor your achievements during your time at Stanford. Your years here have been marked by intellectual exploration, deep immersion in your chosen field, and extraordinary hard work, all undertaken during a time of great challenge.

Today’s ceremony marks the culmination of all you have accomplished at Stanford. We are so proud of you, and we celebrate you as you embark on the next stage of your journey. The first time I met with many of you was to celebrate Convocation on a very hot September day in the Main Quad in 2018.

That day, I described how you would begin to realize, during your years at Stanford, that life is not a straight path from beginning to end. It has twists, turns, and departures that you cannot foresee.

Little did I – or any of us – foresee those that would arise during your years here, as the pandemic closed our campus and forced us all to learn new ways of working together, of creating community, and of supporting one another during an extraordinary time.

All of us learned a hard-won lesson in disruption and adaptability, in how our world can change in an instant, and in how every one of us is called on to adapt throughout our lives.When I think about the unexpected directions that our lives can take, I often like to say that life is long and lived in chapters.

Your life – and every life – has distinct eras. Some you will see coming, and others will begin suddenly and unexpectedly.Childhood is one, and your college years are another. This Commencement marks the end of an important chapter as a trainee and the beginning of a new chapter out in the world.But you’ll experience distinct eras throughout your lives and professional careers, too.

The career you begin right after college is not likely to be the one you have forever. In fact, I predict that the vast majority of you, if not all of you, will have multiple chapters in your professional life.

You may begin a family, and parenthood and family life will be a new chapter. You may move to new places in our country or in the world. You will enter eras of personal and career growth, of uncertainty, of caretaking, and of loss and of sudden change.

Those changes and evolutions will continue throughout your life – as will the sudden, unexpected twists and turns that are a part of every life. I’d like to tell you the story of Stanford alum Milt McColl, whose own path exemplifies the idea that life is lived in chapters.Milt was a talented student athlete.

He played linebacker for the Cardinal from 1977 to 1980, as he earned his bachelor’s degree in biology.Graduating in 1981, Milt signed with the San Francisco 49ers. That same week, he was accepted into the Stanford School of Medicine.

From 1981 to 1987, he played with the 49ers as an outside linebacker, including on two Super Bowl championship teams. In the off-season, he attended medical school here at Stanford, graduating with an MD in 1988.

After completing his NFL career, Milt planned to devote himself entirely to medicine. But with a couple of months to fill before his residency was set to begin, he was offered a job at a medical device startup. He accepted, delaying his residency for what he thought would be a year.

It ended up being nearly 30 years.Over those three decades in the medical device industry, Milt built a hugely successful career. He eventually became CEO of Gauss Surgical, which developed a real-time blood loss measuring device for operating rooms.

Throughout all of those years, Milt continued to make use of his medical license by volunteering at a free clinic in San Francisco. And eventually, he realized that he looked forward to his days in the clinic above all else.So after much thought and reflection, Milt stepped down as CEO.

He left his career and returned to Stanford Medicine at the age of 56 to begin a residency in family medicine.It was hard work. Milt had been away from medical school for a long time, and he needed to put in extra time, accompanying doctors on additional rounds and studying in his spare moments.But he found it deeply rewarding.

Milt completed his residency in 2019 – with impeccable timing – just in time for the arrival of COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, he has treated COVID patients in a community-based clinic at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he works with a traditionally underserved population.Or take the example of Sylvia Jones, an award-winning journalist from the Class of 1993.

Sylvia began her career as a TV news producer, covering everything from Nelson Mandela’s first visit to the U.S., to 9/11, to President Obama’s election.Then she entered a chapter of caregiving, first for her mother, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Then for two young relatives, whom she took in when they had nowhere else to go.

Sylvia went from single and unattached to parenting two children in an almost an instant.When that chapter was resolved, for the first time in years, she had the space to focus on herself and what she wanted.And she realized that what she wanted was to write movies and TV shows. Sylvia applied to UCLA’s screenwriting program and was accepted off the waitlist nine days before classes began.

So, now in her early 40s, she picked up and moved from Chicago to Los Angeles.She figured she had no time to lose, so she knocked on every door in Hollywood she could think of. Today, she’s an Emmy-winning writer and producer of TV shows like The Endgame … The Chi … and Cherish the Day.

Milt and Sylvia’s stories are wonderful illustrations of the idea that life is lived in chapters. And what inspiring chapters they have been.The important thing about these examples is this: We each have this ability to pivot through the years, to use our skills in new and different ways, to find new meaning, and to help solve the problems that our world faces.

Let me be clear: Each of you has that ability to pivot. I know, because each of you had to pivot as the pandemic upended your plans – yet you pushed through to complete your studies and graduate today.

As the story of your own life continues to unfurl, I am confident that each of you will adapt as our world changes and as your own priorities and goals evolve, too.Reflecting on the examples of Milt and Sylvia, I’d like to offer you three thoughts about the foundation you have built here at Stanford and how that foundation will support you through the chapters to come.

First is the importance of lifelong learning and of continuing to explore.In your years here, you have acquired the tools and skills to continue learning, exploring, and adapting as the world changes.

You’ve learned to experiment with ideas, explore challenging issues, and test solutions to problems in every field. And beyond what you’ve learned in the classroom, you’ve used your skills to address real-world problems through hands-on service work.Like Milt, who kept up his medical skills through volunteer work, I hope you continue to use your skills and knowledge to serve your community.

Beyond the fulfillment it will provide you, it will allow you to keep your skills sharp and to explore new ideas, now and in the years to come. That brings me to my second point: As you keep up your knowledge and skills, you should also continue to seek out different perspectives and hold space in your mind for competing views.Throughout your time here at Stanford, you’ve encountered a diversity of perspectives and engaged in conversations across areas of disagreement. It hasn’t always been easy.

But as you look beyond Palm Drive to the division and polarization that grip our country and our world, it’s clear that this is a skill that our world desperately needs.The friends and mentors you have met here at Stanford have broadened your perspective.

As you enter the next chapter of your lives, I encourage you to continue to engage with many voices and to seek out discussion and debate. Honor your own values, but keep an open mind to learning from others’ perspectives and continue to bring the best version of yourself to those discussions.

Third, I urge each of you to imagine a brighter future and to figure out what your own unique contribution will be.Our world faces many challenges – from emerging and chronic diseases, to disinformation, to the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions.

Each of you has the knowledge and the ability to rise to these challenges and to help transform our world for the better, for your own future and for the generations that follow.I know you are up to the challenge. I’ve seen it.

As just one example, this spring, I’ve been so proud of the ways in which the Stanford community has responded to the war in Ukraine – from our scholars at the Freeman-Spogli Institute and across the university, who have played a major role in advising U.S. policymakers and providing knowledge and insight into the conflict, to our Stanford students, who worked with a local nonprofit to organize a shipment of more than $120,000 worth of medical and humanitarian relief to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was another stark reminder of how the world can change in an instant and how each of us – each of you – can contribute, in ways big and small.So I encourage each of you to reflect on the challenges we face and to consider what your own contributions will be.

Through the disruption of the last two years, each of us has had an opportunity to reassess our values and to reflect on what pursuits give us true meaning and fulfillment.

So even as you celebrate all that you have accomplished, I urge each of you to take time to reflect and to ask yourself:How can I shape a future that reflects what I’ve learned about my values and priorities?

And how can I help create a brighter future for my own community and for the world? As you take your next steps along your own path, you’ll carry Stanford with you. The work you’ve done here will ripple forward through your life, propelling you through the early years of your career and providing you a foundation for a life of change and transformation.

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