公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第39期:比爾蓋茨夫婦于斯坦福大學(xué)(20)

Bill and I talk about this with our own kids aroundthe dinner table.

我和比爾在餐桌上同我們自己的孩子們討論過這個問題

Bill worked incredibly hard

比爾工作無比努力

and he took risks and he made sacrifices for success.

他冒過很多風險 做過很多犧牲 才取得了今天的成功

But there's another essential ingredient ofsuccess,

但成功還有另外一個很重要的成分

and that is luck.

那就是運氣

Absolute and total luck.

完全純粹的運氣

When were you born?

你出生在什么年代

Who are your parents?

你的父母是誰

Where did you grow up?

你生長在什么地方

None of us earn these things. These things were given to us.

這些都不是我們自己掙得的 而是天生就有的

So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege

如果沒有運氣和優(yōu)越出身

and we consider where we would be without them,

想想我們現(xiàn)在會是怎樣

it becomes someone much easier to see someone who is poor and say,

這樣想你就能夠切身體會到那些窮人的痛苦

that could be me.

我們也可能是那樣

And that's empathy.

這就是同情心

Empathy tears down barriers

同情心能夠消除障礙

and it opens up whole new frontiers for optimism.

為樂觀開啟一片全新的領(lǐng)域