Pausch: Make me earn it.

鮑許：請坐（字面意思是：讓我透過演講得到掌聲）

It's a--

這

men: You did.

男：你已經贏得我們的掌聲了

Pausch: It's wonderful to be here.

鮑許：能來到這裡真棒

What Indira didn't tell you is that this lecture series

Indira 在開場時沒有提到，這系列的課程

used to be called "The last lecture"

原本被稱為「最後一堂課」

If you had one last lecture to give before you died,

如果你死前可以為大家上最後一堂課

What would it be?

你會講些什麼？

I thought, "Damn, I finally nailed the venue,

我當時想著：「可惡，我好不容易做好了準備

and they renamed it."

他們卻為這堂課改了名子」（卡美隆基大學將課程改稱為「旅程系列」）

So, you know, in case there's anybody who wandered in

所以，為了避免恰好路過旁聽的人

and doesn't know the backstory

不了解這堂課的背景：

My dad always taught me,

父親總是告訴我

When there's an elephant in the room, introduce them.

遇到令人不願面對的事，就向大家介紹它

If you look at my cat scans,

你們可以看看我的斷層掃描

There are approximately ten tumors in my liver,

我的肝臟裡大概有十個腫瘤

And the doctors told me

醫生告訴我

Three to six months of good health left.

我只剩三到六個月

That was a month ago, so you can do the math.

那是一個月前的事了，你們可以算算看我剩多少時間

I have some of the best doctors in the world.

為我治療的是世界上數一數二的醫師們

So that is what it is.

事情就是這樣的

We can't change it, and we just have to decide

我們沒辦法改變它，我們只能決定

how we're going to respond to that.

要如何面對它

We cannot change the cards we are dealt,

就如同我們改變不了手上的這副牌

Just how we play the hand.

只能決定要如何打好這副牌

If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be,

如果我不那麼抑鬱或消沉

Sorry to disappoint you.

抱歉讓你們失望了

[laughter]

[笑聲]

And I assure you, I am not in denial.

我像你們保證，我沒有在否認自己的病情

It's not like I'm not aware of what's going on.

我很清楚現在發生的一切

My family, my three kids, my wife, we just decamped.

我們家，三個小孩和我的妻子，不久前搬了家

We bought a lovely house in Chesapeake, Vigrinia

我們在Vigrinia州的Chesapeake近郊

near norfolk, and we're doing that

買了一間可愛的房子

because that's a better place

因為那是一路上最適合

for the family to be, down the road.

我們家居住的地方

And the other thing is

另外

I am in phenomenally good health right now.

我現在非常地健康

I mean, it's the greatest thing

我想這會是你所見過

of cognitive dissonance you will ever see

最嚴重的認知失調

is the fact that I am in really good shape.

我現在的體格真的很不錯

In fact, I'm in better shape than most of you.

實際上，我可能比在坐大部分的人還要健壯

[applause]

[掌聲]

So anybody who wants to cry or pity me

想要為我哭泣、為我感到憐憫的人

can come down and do a few of those,

可以來這裡試著做幾下伏地挺身

and then you may pity me.

再開始可憐我

[laughter]

[笑聲]

All right, so what we're not talking about today,

好的，我們今天不會談到的事有這些

We're not talking about cancer,

我們不會談到癌症

Because I spent a lot of time talking about that,

因為我花了很多時間去了解它

and I'm really not interested.

我對它真的沒什麼興趣

If you have any herbal supplements or remedies,

如果你有任何草藥補品或藥品

Please stay away from me.

請不要過來

[laughter]

[笑聲]

And we're not going to talk about things

我們也不會談到那些

that are even more important

比實現童年夢想

than achieving your childhood dreams.

還要重要的事

We're not going to talk about my wife.

我們不會談到我的太太

W're not talking about my kids, because I'm good,

也不會談到我的孩子，因為我的狀態還不錯

But I'm not good enough

但沒有好到

to talk about that without tearing up.

可以談論他們而不哭泣

So we're just going to take that off the table.

所以我們要排除這些選項

That's much more important.

儘管它重要了許多

And we're not going to talk about spirituality and religion.

我們也不會講到精神支柱和宗教

Although I will tell you that I have experienced

但我可以告訴大家，我在臨終時

a deathbed conversion.

皈依了新的宗教

I just bought a Macintosh.

--我買了一台麥金塔電腦

[applause]

[掌聲]

Now, I knew I'd get 9% of the audience with that.

我知道我會得到9%觀眾的認同

All right, so what is today's talk about then?

好的，那我們今天要來談些什麼？

It's about my childhood dreams and how I have achieved them--

我們要談談我童年的夢想、我如何達成他們

I've been very fortunate that way--

--我很幸運可以達成他們--

How I believe I've been able to enable the dreams--

以及我如何相信著，自己能夠實現這些夢想--

I've been able to enable the dreams of others,

我也幫助他人實現了一些願望

and to some degree, lessons learned--

同時也學到了一些東西--

I'm a professor;

我是個教授

There should be some lessons learned--

希望大家今天可以學到一些東西

And how you can use the stuff you hear today

並且利用你今天所學的

to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others.

去實踐你的夢想，或協助他人完成願望

And as you get older, you may find

隨著你的成長，你會發現

that "enabling the dreams of others" thing

「實現他人的夢想」

is even more fun.

是更有趣的事

So what were my childhood dreams?

那我童年的夢想是什麼？

Well, you know, I had a really good childhood,

我有非常美好的童年

I mean, no kidding around.

真的

I was going back through the family archives,

當我回顧我的家族紀錄

and what was really amazing was,

驚人的是

I couldn't find any pictures of me as a kid

我找不到任何一張

where I wasn't smiling, all right?

我沒有在微笑的童年舊照

And that was just a very gratifying thing.

這令我非常感動

There was our dog, right?

這是我家的狗

Aw, Thank you.

噢，謝謝

And there I actually have a picture of me dreaming.

這裡有一張我作著夢的照片

[laughter]

[笑聲]

And I did a lot of that.

我常常作夢

You know, there was a lot of " wake ups ", you know?

我也常常「夢醒」

And it was an easy time to dream.

那是個適合作夢的年代

I was born in 1960, all right?

我出生於1960年

When you're eight or nine years old

在我8、9歲的時候

and you look at the TV set and men are landing on the moon,

看著電視上的人登陸月球

Anything is possible.

任何事都是有可能的

And that's something we should not lose sight of,

我們不該忘記

Is that the inspiration

受到激勵

And the permission to dream is huge.

並且能夠作夢，是一件很重要的事

So what were my childhood dreams?

那我童年的夢想是什麼？

You may not agree with this list, but I was there.

你或許不會贊同這個清單，但我曾是如此

[laughter]

[笑聲]

Being in zero gravity,

體驗零重力

Playing in the national football league,

成為美式足球國家聯盟的球員

Authoring an article in the "WORLD BOOK" encyclopedia--

寫《世界百科全書》的一個篇章

I guess you can tell the nerds early--

我想書呆子特徵在我們小時候就出現了

[laughter]

[笑聲]

Being Captain Kirk

當上庫克船長

Anybody here have that childhood dream?

有人也這麼希望過嗎？

Not at CMU, NO.

不，不是在卡內基隆美大學

I wanted to become one of the guys

我也夢想成為那種

Who won the big stuffed animals in the amusement park,

在遊樂園贏得超大玩偶的人

And I wanted to be an imagineer with disney.

我也想當上迪士尼的夢想工程師

There are not sorted in any particular order,

這些願望沒有被特別分類

Although I think they do get harder,

但它們真的一個比一個難

Except for maybe the first one.

除了第一個以外

Okay so being in zero gravity.

好的，體驗零重力

Now, It's important to have specific dreams.

鎖定目標是很重要的

I did not dream of being an astronaut,

我不想當個太空人

Because when I was a little kid, I wore glasses,

因為我小時候戴著眼鏡

And they told me "Oh, astronauts can't have glasses."

別人告訴我：「噢，太空人不能戴眼鏡」

And I was like, "MM, I didn't really want

然後我說：「嗯...其實我沒有

The whole astronaut gig; I just wanted the floating"

那麼想當太空人；我只是想漂浮」

So--And as a child--

所以，這是--兒童版的--

[laughter]

[笑聲]

Prototype 0.0.

原型0.0

But that didn't work so well, and it turns out that NASA

但這模型沒有成功，結果是NASA

Has something called "The Vomit Comet"

有架叫做「嘔吐彗星」的飛機

That they use to train the astronauts,

他們用這個飛機訓練太空人

And this thing does parabolic arcs,

它會呈拋物線飛行

And at the top of each arc,

在每個曲線的頂端

You get about 25 seconds where you're ballistic

會有大約25秒的彈道飛行

And you get about a rough equivalent of weightlessness

也就可以體驗大約25秒的零重力

for about 25 seconds.

And there is a program where college students

NASA有個計畫，讓大學生可以

can submit proposals,

提交企劃書

And if they win the competition, they get to fly.

若是他們贏得了比賽，就可以搭上那台飛機

And I thought that was really cool.

我覺得那酷斃了

And we had a team, and we put a team together,

我們組成了一個小組，並讓小組合作

And they won, and they got to fly,

最後他們贏了，可以飛一趟

And I was all excited because I was going to go with them...

我非常地興奮，因為我要跟他們一起去...

And then I hit the first brick wall,

然後我碰上了第一道磚牆

Because they made it very clear

他們清楚的說了

That under no circumstances were faculty members

教職員工是不會被允許

Allowed to fly with the teams.

跟著團隊上飛機的

I know. I was heartbroken, right.

我知道。我的心都碎了

I was like, "But I worked so hard."

我當時想：「可是我都這麼努力了」

And so I read the literature very carefully,

於是我非常仔細地讀過了它的規範

And it turns out that NASA--

最後發現，NASA--

It's part of their outreach and publicity program,

這個計畫是他們宣傳與行銷的企畫之一

And it turns out that the students were allowed

學生們可以

To bring a local media journalist from their hometown.

帶著一位當地的記者上飛機

[laughter]

[笑聲]

Randy Pausch, web journalist.

蘭迪鮑許，網路記者

It's really easy to get a press pass.

要拿到記者證真的很簡單

So I called up the guys at NASA, and I said,

所以我打了電話給NASA，然後說

"I need to know where to fax some documents."

「我需要你們的傳真號碼」

And they said, "What documents are you going to fax us?"

他們問：「你要傳真什麼文件？」

I said, "My resignation as the faculty advisor

我說：「我要辭下指導員的放棄書

and my application as the journalist."

還有我身為記者的申請書

And he said, "That's a little transparent, don't you think?"

他回答：「你不覺得這樣有點明顯嗎？」

And I said, "Yeah, but our project is virtual reality,

我說：「是啊，但我們的研究計畫是虛擬實境（簡稱VR）

and we're going to bring down a whole bunch of VR headsets,

我們會帶上整套的VR設備

and all the students from all the teams

讓每個小組的學生

are going to experience it.

都可以體驗到這個過程

And all those other real journalists

而其他的記著們

are going to get to film it."

也會把它給拍下來

Jim Foley's going, "Oh, you bastard, yes."

吉姆弗利說：「噢，你這個壞蛋，好啊」

And the guy said, "Here's the fax number."

最後那個人說：「這是我們的傳真號碼」

So--And indeed, we kept our end of the bargain,

事實上，我們最後也有守承諾

And that's one of the themes that you'll hear

這是你們待會在這堂課裡面

later on in the talk

會聽到的主題之一

is have something to bring to the table, right,

也就是，要做好準備、要拿的出東西

because that wall make you more welcomed.

這會讓你更討人喜歡

And if you're curious about what zero gravity looks like.

如果你想看看零重力會是什麼樣子

Hopefully the sound will be working here.

希望聲音播得出來

man: It's on.

男：要開始了

woman: All right, go get 'em, Mazi

女：接住，麥斯

This is fantastic.

這真棒

It's just amazing.

真是太棒了

It's nothing like I expected.

超乎我的想像

Pausch: There I am.

鮑許：我在那兒

[laughter]

[笑聲]

woman: This is awesome.

女：這真是太棒了

[laughs]

[笑]

You got one, Mazi

麥斯，你接到了一個

That's good.

不錯

man: Got a ball for you, Mazi

男：這顆球給你，麥斯

[laughter]

[笑聲]

Pausch: You do pay the piper at the bottom.

鮑許：到了拋物線的底端還是要付出代價的

So childhood dream number one, check.

童年夢想一號，達成

All right, let's talk about football.

好的，接著來談談美式足球吧

My dream was to play in the national football league,

我夢想成為美式足球國家聯盟（簡稱NFL）的球員

and most of you don't know that I actually played--no.

大部分的人們不知道我真的有--沒有啦

[laughter]

[笑聲]

NO, I DID NOT MAKE IT TO THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE,

沒有，我從來也沒有成功加入NFL

but I probably got more from that dream

但跟其他我確實達成的夢想比起來

and not accomplishing it

我大概從這個沒有實現的夢想

than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.

學到了更多的東西

I had a coach.

我有一個教練

I signed up when I was nine years old.

我九歲時加入了球隊

I was the smallest kid in the league by far,

我當時是隊上最小的孩子

And I had a coach, Jim Graham, who was 6'4''.

我的教練，吉姆葛拉漢，當時6.4英呎高

He had played linebacker at Penn State.

他曾在賓州隊擔任後衛

He was just this hulk of a guy,

他是個壯漢

And he was old school, I mean, really old school.

而且很保守，非常保守

Like, he thought the forward pass was a trick play.

例如他覺得向前傳球是奇招

[laughter]

[笑聲]

And he showed up for practice the first day,

第一天練習他出現時

And you know, he's this big hulking guy.

他是個高大的壯漢

We were all scared to death of him,

我們大家都怕死他了

And he hadn't brought any footballs.

而他沒有帶著橄欖球

How are we going to have practice without any footballs?

沒有球要怎麼練習？

And one of the other kids said,

某個孩子問

"Excuse me, coach, but there's no football."

「不好意思，教練，我們沒有橄欖球」

And Coach Graham said, "Right, How many men

葛拉漢教練說：「好，在球場上

are on a football field at a time?"

每次會有幾個球員？」

"11 on a team, 22."

「每隊11人，一共22」

And Coach Graham said,

葛拉漢教練接著問

"All right, and how many people

「好，那每個時刻會有

are touching the football at any given time?"

幾個人碰到球？」

"One of them."

「其中一個」

And he said, "Right, so we're going to work

他說：「很好，所以我們要練習

on what those other 21 guys are doing."

做其他21人在做的事」

And that's a really good story,

這是個很棒的故事

Because it's all about fundamentals, fundamentals,

一切都跟基礎有關。基礎

fundamentals, fundamental.

基礎、基礎

You've got to get the fundamentals down,

你必須穩穩扎下基礎

Because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.

否則再炫的招數也沒有用

And the other Jim Graham story I have is,

另外一個關於葛拉漢教練的故事是

There was one practice

有次練習時

where he just rode me all practice.

他不斷地盯我

Just, "You're doing this wrong. You're doing this wrong."

「你做錯了，錯了」

"Go back and do it again. You owe me."

「回去再來一遍。你欠我的」

"You're doing push-ups after practice."

「結束後給我去練伏地挺身」

And when it was all over,

練習結束後

One of the other assistant coaches came over and said,

其中一個助教跟我說

"Yeah, Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?"

「葛拉漢教練把你罵得蠻慘的，對吧？」

I said, "Yeah."

我說：「是啊」

He said, "That's a good thing."

他回答：「這是件好事」

He said, "When you're screwing up,

他說，「當你把事情搞砸

and nobody's saying anything to you anymore,

卻沒有任何人嘮叨你的時候

that means they gave up."

表示他們放棄了你」