過去簡單式

So when I was younger, my friend and I had a dream that we would open up our very own pie shop.

小時候，我和朋友夢想開一間自己的派餅店

未來簡單式

We knew what pies we will serve; we knew where we wanted our shop to be located;

我們想好要賣些什麼派，想好要在哪邊開店

to 不定詞

we even knew the name we wanted to call our shop.

And I was thinking about all of this because I'm currently in my fifth year.

現在，因為我現在是第五年，我又回憶起這件事

In my last semester, I have one month left to school and I have no idea what I'm gonna do when I graduate.

最後一學期，畢業前一個月，我完全不知道畢業後要做什麼

I was complaining to a friend of mine, a very dear friend of mine

that I was so annoyed because all of these people that were asking me “Eunice, what are you gonna do when you graduate?”

我覺得很煩，因為大家都在問我，你畢業後想做什麼

In my first week here at school, 29 people asked me what are you gonna do when you graduate.

入學第一周，有29人問我畢業後要做什麼

And I was complaining to my friend of mine, and she showed me this photo.

我向朋友抱怨，她給了我這張照片

(ASK ME WHAT I'M DOING AFTER GRADUATION ONE MORE TIME)

(有種再問一次，我畢業後要做什麼)

Needless to say, I was really tempted to run home and change my Facebook profile picture, but I didn't.

不用說，我當時超想跑回家換FB大頭照，但我沒有

But I did have some big questions that I wanted answered,

但我的確有些重要問題需要解答

and I wanted some career advice, some solid career advice that would guide me.

我想得到一些職涯建議，希望有些可靠的建議能指引我

So I did a quick Google search of top career advice that's out there,

所以我上Google搜尋最佳職涯建議

and let me tell you, there's a lot of advice that you do not wanna go through.

跟你說，有一大堆建議你絕對不會想看

But I wanna share some of that with you here today.

One entrepreneur said that you should just do what caters to your strength. If you're good at it, just go do it.

有個企業家說，就做你擅長的事吧，如果是你強項，就去做

But then she ended her article by saying just do anything, really, so I was kinda confused.

但文章最後卻說，總之做些事就對了。我覺得有點困惑

One artist said: “Just move to New York.”

一個藝術家說，搬到紐約就對了

Another writer said: “Don't move to New York if you want to be happy.”

另一個作家卻說，想活得快樂就別搬到紐約

And one CEO said: “Whatever you do, just listen to your dad.”

一個執行長說，不管怎樣，聽你爸的話

But the top advice that I found, this theme that came over and over again was the theme of

在這些建議中，有個主題一再出現，那就是

“Do what you love. Follow you passion.”

And Steve Jobs even went so far to say in his commencement address to the Stanford Graduating class of 2005.

賈伯斯在史丹佛2005年的畢業演說上更進一步說

He said “Don't settle for anything less than work that you love.”

在找到你熱愛的工作前，別停下來

And this is the theme that I see when I looked to role models of mine:

Mother Teresa, who devoted herself to helping others,

泰瑞莎修女，奉獻一切幫助他人

Muhammad Yunus, who I love not just because his name sounds like mine,

穆罕默德·尤努斯，我喜歡他不是因為跟我名字很像

but because he eradicated poverty in many areas,

而是因為他消除了許多地區的貧窮

and by basically, developing this concept to microfinance when he started the Grameen Bank

他將這概念發展成孟加拉鄉村銀行的小額金融

and empowering women to become the breadwinners in their family.

And Nora Ephron, who was able to turn every tragedy in her life into a comedic masterpiece.

諾拉·艾芙倫，她能將生命中的每個悲劇都變成經典喜劇

She wrote movies like When Harry Met Sally.

寫出「當哈利遇上莎莉」這樣的電影

And I looked at these people and whether you admire them or not,

我審視這些人，不管你喜不喜歡他們

the point is that you could substitute any of your role models into these slots.

重點是，你可以把任何榜樣代換進來

And I guarantee you that they would be passionate about the work they do, too.

我保證，他們也都熱愛著自己從事的事

And it seems to me that it's this big question that graduates have.

我覺得這似乎就是畢業生面臨的大問題

It's this question of choice. Do I go down this road where I choose what I love,

這是關於選擇的問題。我選擇的路是我喜愛的嗎

this passion of mine, where there's probably more uncertainty?

是我熱情所在嗎？這可能有更多不確定性

Or do I go down this other road, and get a job, find some financial security,

還是我該走另一條路，找個工作，讓生活穩定

and maybe worry about loving life later on?

但之後也許會擔心無法熱愛生命？

Which one do I choose? Or maybe I find a road in the middle if I'm lucky.

我該選哪邊？幸運的話也許能找到中庸之道

For the past three years, I've actually erred on the side of telling students to choose their passions.

過去三年，我錯誤地跟學生說，選擇熱情所在

In my second year of university, I co-founded an amazing project called “The Passion Project.”

大學二年級時，我協力創辦一個很棒的專案叫「熱情計畫」

And with a dear friend of mine and my roommate at the time, Tarini Fernando.

和我室友兼密友Tarini Fernando一同合作

And Tarini and I had these two big frustrations.

and if you are a student, too, you know this is a very bleak time, it's the middle of the exams.

如果你是學生，就知道這是段黯淡時光，正在大考期間

Um, and we just got to talking one night, we had these two big frustrations.

有天晚上我們聊到，我們有兩大挫折

We had, on the one hand, this frustration that we weren't doing what we love anymore because we were too busy studying,

一個是，因為忙著念書，我們無法做我們喜歡的事

and we saw our fellow students in the same predicament.

And on the other hand, um, all of these students wanted to make a difference in their communities, but they didn't necessarily know how.

另一個是，大家都想改變這裡的環境，但不知該怎麼做

And we are wrestling with these two questions of how do we do more what we love and how do we make a difference in our community.

我們糾結於這兩個問題，如何做我所愛，如何改變環境

And so we thought can we answer these two questions in one project.

後來，我們認為有個專案能解決這兩個問題

And so “Passion Project” was formed. We had no resources, no funding.

熱情計畫就這樣誕生了，我們沒有資源，沒有資金

We didn't even really know how to explain this concept that we had in our minds to our peers, but nevertheless, we went ahead with that.

甚至不知該如何向同學解釋我們的概念，但還是埋頭去做了

The first event that we put on was a concert at the Pit Pub,

第一個舉辦的活動是在Pit Pub開音樂會

and we got just under a hundred students to come out.

We raised just under a thousand dollars for charities that all the musicians chose.

募到了將近一千元，全數捐給音樂家票選出的慈善團體

Another event that we had was a photography exhibition, which you can see in the bottom corner.

另一個活動是照相展，請看照片右下角

And again all the money that we raised went to charities that the photographers chose.

同樣地，捐款金額全數捐給攝影師票選出的慈善團體

And over the years, we wanted to move away from this financial model of doing things where we solely donated money to charities that the artist chose.

之後幾年，我們想改變這種只捐款給特定團體的金融模式

And we wanted to take a more hands-on approach and how we made a difference in our community.

想從事更多親自實踐的活動，改變周遭環境

And so we partnered with the UBC community learning initiative in February of this year,

因此在今年二月，我們與UBC社群團體合作

and we put on a three-day reading week project in areas of slam poetry and photography, and music.

舉辦了三天閱讀週，主題包括詩歌擂台賽、攝影及音樂

And we worked with great successes in seveners, I don't know if that's a word, seveners.

我們與成功的seveners合作，有seveners這個字嗎

Um, in a local inner-city elementary school here in Vancouver,

在溫哥華市中心平民區的國小的三天活動中

and one of my favorite stories that came from those three days was

there was a little guy named Sam, and Sam….

didn't want to share anything that he wrote in his slam poetry workshops

不願意在詩歌擂台賽中分享他寫的詩

Um, the poets that were in the project -- Mike and Frances and Alberto -- they worked with him every day.

參與這場活動的三位詩人，每天都與Sam一起寫作

“Sam, you know it's okay, you can get up and share what you've written.”

「Sam，沒關係的，就站起來和大家分享你寫的東西」

Um, and we came to this last day, and he still, was reluctant to share, he's really shy.

到了最後一天，他還是很害羞，不願意分享

But we had the assembly that contained the whole school,

and Sam gets up in front of the whole school,

and shares not just the poem, but a full-on rap.

分享的不只是詩，而是一首完整的rap

And I thought that it was a huge testament the courage that can be born if you are really passionate about something.

我想這證明了，真正的熱情可以產生巨大的勇氣

So we've had these successes. It's been three years. The project is still running now,

這些是我們的成就，計畫仍在進行中，已經三年了

and two amazing women, Rigica and Efron now run it. And that's still going on in BBC.

現在是兩位傑出女性Rigica和Efron負責，仍在BBC進行中

And all this time, I was looking at it, and I thought that we weren't doing anything wrong. I thought we were doing a great thing here.

我總覺得我們做的事很棒，沒任何不對的地方

I thought that we were the leading students on the right track.

我覺得我們引領學生走在正確的路途上

And then I read this article in the Harvard Business Review.

直到我讀到哈佛商業評論中的一篇文章

And I can only compare this article to torrential rain on a beautiful summer's day.

這篇文章就像美好夏日的一場暴雨

It was the type of article that I needed to take deep breaths while reading.

It was the type of article that I needed to put down and go for a long walk, and then come back to.

讀到一半我得停下來，散個長長的步，才能繼續讀

And it was the type of article that really made me question if we are doing the right thing with the Passion Project.

這篇文章讓我質疑熱情計畫的正確性

And, yeah, we're just doing the right thing and leading students on a good path.

但我們只是做正確的事，將學生帶往正確的方向

So by now, you're probably wondering if you haven't read this article, what the authors of this article said.

現在你們可能在想，這篇文章的作者到底說了什麼

Cal Newport, a professor who wrote this article. He said three main things.

寫這篇文章的教授Cal Newport說了三個重點

The first is that our generation, generation Y,

so that's everyone born from 1983 to 2007, so before and after that, you're in the clear.

1983年到2007年之間出生的人都是Y世代

Um, he said that our generation is known as lazy, as pampered, as high maintenance,

這世代以懶散、嬌慣、難以伺候聞名

actually one critic said that we're the hardest generation to maintain when we come into the workforce.

有個評論家說，我們這代的工作穩定性最差

And the New York Post called us the worst generation ever.

Cal Newport then went on to say that it all boils down to the fact that our generation is entitled,

作者Cal Newpory說，這全歸因於我們這代太過享受

and that entitlement actually comes from the fact that we've been told over and over again to follow our passions.

因為人們一再告訴我們，要追隨熱情

In fact, he showed this graph from Google Analytics that shows

事實上，他展示了Google Analytics的這張圖表

the rise in the amount of time that the phrase “follow your passion” has been published in English language.

顯示「追隨熱情」這個詞使用量的上升程度

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