Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

童年的梦想，一生的追求

唐静 摘译

Make me earn it. [laughter]

讲得好再鼓掌 [笑声]

It’s wonderful to be here. What Indira didn’t tell you is that this lecture series used to be called the Last Lecture.  If you had one last lecture to give before you died, what would it be?  I thought, damn, I finally nailed the venue and they renamed it. [laughter]

来这里到，深感荣幸。但是，英迪拉没有告诉各位的是，该讲座曾经名为“最后的演讲”，如果在一个人死前，还能做一次最后的演讲，那将会是什么样子？我想，恩，我算是名副其实，找对地方了。可是，讲座改名了。[笑声]

So, you know, in case there’s anybody who wandered in and doesn’t know the back story, my dad always taught me that when there’s an elephant in the room, introduce them.  If you look at my CAT scans, there are approximately 10 tumors in my liver, and the doctors told me 3-6 months of good health left. That was a month ago, so you can do the math. I have some of the best doctors in the world.

因此，各位，如果有人是碰巧进来而不知内情的话，我爸总是告诫我，如果有丑遮不住，不如不遮。大家可以看看这些电脑断层扫描图片，在我的肝脏部位有大约十个肿瘤，医生说我还能活三到六个月。那是一个月前的事情了，大家都可以算算。而给我诊断和治疗的都是世界上最好的医生。

So that is what it is. We can’t change it, and we just have to decide how we’re going to respond to that. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.  If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you. [laughter] And I assure you I am not in denial.  It’s not like I’m not aware of what’s going on.  My family, my three kids, my wife, we just decamped. We bought a lovely house in Chesapeake, Virginia, near Norfolk, and we’re doing that because that’s a better place for the family to be, down the road. And the other thing is I am in phenomenally good health right now.  I mean it’s the greatest thing of cognitive dissonance you will ever see is the fact that I am in really good shape.  In fact, I am in better shape than most of you. [Randy gets on the ground and starts doing pushups] [Applause] So anybody who wants to cry or pity me can down and do a few of those, and then you may pity me. [laughter]

既然事已至此，我们无法改变，那么我们就必须决定如何去应对。正如牌局已定，只是我们如何出牌的问题而已。如果我看起来似乎不那么沮丧或者悲戚，抱歉，让大家失望了。[笑声]可以让大家安心的是，我不是在否认事实，我不是不知道发生了什么事情。我的家人，包括三个孩子和我爱人，我们刚刚匆忙地搬了家。我们在弗吉尼亚州的切萨皮克，离诺福克不远的地方买了房，房子很好。我之所以这样做，一方面是因为那个地方更适合我家今后的生活，就在路边；另一方面是因为我目前看起来身体还不错。我是说，你们理解上出现了一个最大的偏差，其实，我的身体相当棒。事实上，我比你们大多数人的体力都强。[兰迪趴在地方，开始做俯卧撑] [掌声] 如果有人想要流泪或可怜我的话，先来做几个俯卧撑，然后你就可以同情我了。[笑声]

All right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer, because I spent a lot of time talking about that and I’m really not interested.