jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲视频

jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲视频 jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲视频 篇一: JK罗琳 - 201X哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲 201X年JK罗琳哈佛 毕业典礼演讲(中英文对照) 默认分类201X-07-17 20:13阅读1281 评论0 字号: 大 中 小 “201X年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的 演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者J.K.罗琳女士。她的演讲题目是《失 败的好处和想象的重要性》(The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importane of Imaginatio n)。我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很 感染人。 她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。 虽然J?K? 罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人， 但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。她 主要谈的是，自己从 这段经历中学到的东西。” 以下是英文文稿和 中文翻译: Text as delivered follos. Copright of JK Roling, June 201X President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the fault, proud parent s, and, above all, graduates. The first thing I ould like to sa is ?thank ou.? Not onl has Harvard given me an extraordinar honour, but the eeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this menement address have made me lose eight. A in-in situation! No all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and onvine mself that I am at t he orld?s largest Grffindor reunion.Delivering a menement address is a great responsibilit; or so I thought until I ast m mind bak to m on graduation. The menement speaker that da as the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mar Warnok. Refleting on her speeh has helped me enormousl in riting this one, beause it turns out that I an?t remember a single ord she said. This liberating disover enables me to proeed ithout an fear that I might inadvertentl influene ou to abandon promising areers in business, the la or politis for the gidd delights of being a ga izard. You see? If all ou remember in ears to e is the ?ga izard? joke, I?ve e out ahead of Baroness Mar Warno k. Ahievable goals: the first step to self improvement. Atuall, I have raked m mind and heart for hat I ought to sa to ou toda. I have asked mself hat I ish I had knon at m on graduation, and hat important lessons I have learned in the 21 ears that have expired beteen tha t da and this. I have e up ith to ansers. On this onderful da hen e are gathered together to elebrate our XXdemi suess, I have deided to talk to ou about the benefits of failure. And as ou stand on the threshold of hat is sometimes alled ?real life?, I ant to extol the ruial importane of im agination. These ma seem quixoti or paradoxial hoies, but plea se bear ith me. Looking bak at the 21-ear-old that I as at graduation, is a slightl unfortable experiene for the 42-ear-old that she has bee. Half m lifetime ago, I as striking an uneas balane beteen the ambition I had for mself, and hat t hose losest to me expeted of me. I as onvined that the onl thing I anted to do, ever, as to rite novels. Hoever, m parents, both of hom ame from impoverished bakgrounds and neither of hom had been to ollege, took the vie that m overative imagination as an amusing personal quirk that ould never pa a mortgage, or seure a pension. I kno that the iron strikes ith t he fore of a artoon anvil, no.So the hoped that I ould take a voational degree; I anted to stud English Literature. A promise as reahed that in retrospet satisfied nobod, and I ent up to stud Modern Languages. Hardl had m parents? ar rounded the orner at the end of the road than I dithed German and suttle d off don the Classis orridor. I annot remember telling m parents that I as studing Classis; the might ell have found out for the first time on graduation da. Of all the subjets on this planet, I think the ould have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mtholog hen it ame to seuring the kes to an exe utive bathroom. I ould like to make it lear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame m parents for their point of vie. There is an expir date on blaming our parents for steering ou in the rong diretion; the moment ou are old enough to take the heel, responsibilit lies ith ou. What is more, I annot ritiise m parents for hoping that I ould never experiene povert. The had been poor themselves, and I have sine been poor, and I quite agree ith them that it is not an ennobling experiene. Povert entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pett humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of povert b our on efforts, that is indeed something on hih to pride ourself, but povert itself is roma ntiised onl b fools. What I feared most for mself at our age as not povert , but failure. At our age, in spite of a distint lak of motivation at universit, here I had spent far too long in the offee bar riting stories, and far too little time at letures, I had a knak for passing examinations, and that, for ears, had been the me asure of suess in m life and that of m peers. I am not dull enough to suppose that beause ou are oung, gifted and ell-eduated, ou have never knon hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligene never et inoulated anone against the aprie of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everone here has enjoed an existene of uuffled privilege and ontentment.Hoever, the fat that ou are graduating from Harvard suggests that ou are not ver ell-aquainted ith failure. You might be driven b a fear of failure quite as muh as a desire for suess. Indeed, our oneption of failure might not be too far from the average person?s idea of suess, so high have ou alread flon. Ultimatel, e all have to deide for ourselves hat onstitutes failure, but the orld is quite eager to give ou a set of riteria if ou let it. So I think it fair to sa that b an onventional measure, a mere seven ears after m graduation da, I had failed on an epi sale. An exeptionall short-lived marriage had imploded, and I as jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, ithout being homeless. The fears that m parents had had for me, and that I had had for mself, had both e to pass, and b ever usual standard, I as the biggest failure I kne. No, I am not going to stand here and tell ou that failure is fun. That period of m life as a dark one, and I had no idea that there as going to be hat the press has sine represented as a kind of fair tale resolution. I had no idea then ho far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, an light at the end of it as a hope rather than a realit. So h do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simpl beause failure meant a stripping XX of the inessential. I stopped pretending to mself that I as anthing other than hat I as, and began to diret all m energ into finishing the onl ork that mattered to me. Had I reall sueeded at anthing else, I might never have found the determination to sueed in the one arena I believed I trul belonged. I as set free, beause m greatest fear had been realised, and I as still alive, and I still had a daughter hom I adored, and I had an old tperiter and a big idea. And so rok bottom beame t he solid foundation on hih I rebuilt m life. You might never fail on the sale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live ithout failing at something, unless ou live so autiousl that ou might as ell not have lived at all – in hih ase, ou fail b default. Failure gave me an inner seurit that I had never attained b passing examinations. Failure taught me things about mself that I ould have learned no other a. I disovered that I had a strong ill, and more disipline than I had suspeted; I also found out that I had friends hose value as trul above the prie of rubies. The knoledge that ou have emerged iser and stronger from setbaks means that ou are, ever after, seure in our abilit to survive. You ill never trul kno ourself, or the strength of our relationships, until both have been tested b adversit. Suh knoledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfull on, and it has been orth more than an qualifiation I ever earned. So given a Time Turner, I ould tell m 21-ear-old self that personal happiness lies in knoing that life is not a hek-list of aquisition or ahievement. Your qualifiations, our CV, are not our life, though ou ill meet man people of m age and older ho onfuse the to. Life is diffiult, and pliated, and beond anone?s total ontrol, and the humilit to kno that ill enable ou to survive its viissitudes. No ou might think that I hose m seond theme, the importane of imagination, beause of the part it plaed in rebuilding m life, but that is not holl so. Though I personall ill defend the value of bedtime stories to m last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a muh broader sense. Imagination is not onl the uniquel human apait to envision that hih is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguabl most transformative and revelator apait, it is the poer that enables us to empathise i th humans hose experienes e have never shared. One of the greatest formative experienes of m life preeded Harr Potter, though it informed muh of hat I subsequentl rote in those books. This revelation ame in the form of one of m earliest da jobs. Though I as sloping off to rite stories during m lunh hours, I paid the rent in m earl 20s b orking at the Afrian researh department at Amn est International?s headquarters in London. There in m little offie I read hastil sribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes b men and omen ho ere risking imprisonment to inform the outside orld of hat as happening to them. I sa photographs of those ho had disappeared ithout trae, sent to Amnest b their desperate families and friends. I read the testimon of torture vitims