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嗯，我会选我现在做的这件事，因为第一，我做这个很开心；第二，我还算比较擅长；而且你知道，我通过这个会认识很多有意思的人，也不用干什么体力活。
Well, I would choose what I do because, A, I have fun at it, I'm reasonably good at it, you know, I meet a lot of interesting people through it, no heavy lifting.
你知道，这很适合我，不是吗？
You know, it fits me, doesn't it?
不过这不算是给你的建议。
But that's not advice for you.
我的意思是，你得自己找到，真正——你这一生真正热爱的东西是什么。
I mean, you have to find out what really— what's your passion in life?
你知道，浑浑噩噩地把一生混过去，是个非常严重的错误，因为除非 Shirley MacLaine 是对的，不然你知道，你大概就只有这一辈子。
You know, it's a terrible mistake to kind of sleepwalk through your life, because unless Shirley MacLaine's right, you know, it's the only one you're going to have.
所以——我是很幸运的。
And the— so I was lucky.
我非常幸运，因为我很早就找到了自己的热情所在。
I was very lucky in that I found my passion early.
我的意思是，这可不容易。
I mean, I— that's not easy.
你知道，这需要一点运气。
You know, that takes some luck.
刚好我父亲是做生意的，有一个很小的办公室，里面放着一堆书。
It just so happened my dad was in a business, had a very small office, and he had a bunch of books down there.
我每到周六，或者放学以后去那儿的时候，就会开始读那些书，然后我一下子就被吸引住了。
And when I would go down there on Saturday or after school, I would start reading those books, and it turned me on.
而且那还是在 Playboy 真正出现之前。
And this was before Playboy actually existed.
所以你知道，这纯粹就是运气好。
And so, you know, that was just plain lucky, you know.
如果他是个牧师，我就不太确定了，你知道，我会不会对去办公室这件事也这么有热情。
If he'd been a minister, I'm not so sure I would have, you know, gotten quite as enthused about visiting the office.
不过，这就是该走的路。
But that's, that's the way to go.
而且，而且我没法替你开这个方，呃，但我可以告诉你，如果你在人生里只是按部就班、机械地过日子，做着某件事——当然了，如果你确实需要手上的这份工作，没法改变，孩子还得吃饭，诸如此类，那你就得面对这种现实。
And, and I can't prescribe that for you, uh, but I can tell you that if you're, if you're going through the motions in life, you're doing something, uh— now, if you, you know, obviously if you need the job you have and you can't, you can't make a change and your kids have to eat and all of that, you deal with realities like that.
但是当你有条件做选择的时候，你知道，我总是跟那些来看我的孩子们说，去为一个你敬佩的组织工作，或者去为一个你敬佩的人工作。
But when you're in a position to make choices, you know, I always tell the kids that come visit me, I tell them, go to work for an organization you admire or an individual you admire.
这意味着他们当中很多人最后会自己创业，不过——不过这个想法本身，你知道，不会带来坏结果。
That means many of them become self-employed, but they— but the idea, you know, you can't get a bad result.
我二十四岁的时候去为 Ben Graham 工作。
I went to work for Ben Graham when I was 24.
我其实只给他干了不到两年，但我每天早上都会从床上一跃而起。
I only worked for him for less than 2 years, but I jumped out of bed every day in the morning.
一想到自己将要去做的事，我就很兴奋。
I was excited about what I was going to do.
我在学东西。
I was learning things.
我——我是跟着一个我敬佩的人在一起做事。
I was— I was with a man I admired.
我接那份工作的时候，甚至从来没问过薪水是多少。
I never asked my salary when I took that job.
我搬到 New York City，等拿到支票的时候，才知道自己的薪水是多少。
I moved to New York City and found out what my salary was when I got the check.
所以一定要确保你——还有，一定要找对配偶。
So just be sure you— and be sure and get the right spouse.
那可是非常非常重要。
That's enormously important.
这个，你知道，就像 Charlie 说的，问题在于，我们会讲这么个人——他花了二十年去找那个完美的女人，后来他终于找到了，结果很不幸，她在找的是完美的男人。
The, you know, as Charlie says, the problem, you know, is that we talk about the fellow that spent 20 years looking for the perfect woman, and then he found her, and unfortunately she was looking for the perfect man.
所以你在这方面可能会碰到点问题。
So you may have a problem in that respect.
不过，你跟谁结婚，真的是极其重要。
But it's enormously important who you marry.
我的意思是，这真的是一个特别特别特别重大的决定。
I mean, it's a huge, huge, huge decision.
而且，你知道，如果这种事上你能幸运个一两回，那你这辈子就会过得很幸福，而且一路走来你也会表现得更好。
And, you know, if you're lucky in a couple things like that, you're going to have a happy life, and you're going to behave better as you go along.
我的意思是，当事情进展顺利，你又很享受自己的工作，而且你每天思考的那些事，正好也是你喜欢思考的事，这种情况下，想要好好做事、好好做人，都会容易得多。
I mean, it's a lot easier to behave well when things are going your way and you're enjoying your work and you like that you're thinking about things every day, that they're the kind of things you like to think about.
嗯，Charlie 给的建议可比我高明多了。
Uh, and Charlie has a lot better advice than I have.
我会听他的。
I'd go to it.
嗯，当然了，如果你对某件自己很有天赋的事情培养出了热情，你肯定会做得更好。
Well, of course, you'll do better if you develop a passion for something in which you have a considerable aptitude.
我觉得如果 Warren 当年去跳芭蕾，那就没人会听说过他了。
I think if Warren had gone into the ballet, nobody would have ever heard of him.
哦，我觉得他们还是会听说过我的，只不过方式会不太一样，Charlie。
Oh, I think they'd have heard of me, just in a different way, Charlie.
不过，大概率来说，如果你找到了真正让你来劲的事情，那你很可能确实在这方面也有点天赋。
Well, the chances are, if you find something that turns you on, you probably do have some talent for it, though.
我的意思是——我从来——我觉得我是不可能会对芭蕾来劲的。
I mean, it— I never— I don't think I could have gotten turned on by ballet.