[Intermediate] Do What You Love - Steven Jobs

drop out  중퇴하다

to leave a school or university before your course has finished

ex) Didn't she drop out of medical school?

 

 

(practical) application 유용

a way in which something can be used

ex ) The research has many practical applications.

 

 

typography  활자체

the arrangement, style, and appearance of printed words

ex) This book has highly readable typography.

 

 

gut 직감

a way of deciding what should be done or what is right, that is based on how someone feels rather than thinking about reasons

ex) My head said that I should go but my gut said I should stay.

 

 

karma 업보, 카르마

the force produced by a person's actions in one life that influences what happens to them in future lives

ex) I think this is the karma.

 

 

finest 가장 훌륭한

the best example of its type

ex) Unicon House handles only the finest furniture.

 

 

dawn on somebody ~이 깨닫게 되다 / ~ 에게 분명해지다

to become known or obvious to someone, often suddenly

ex) It finally dawned on him that she’d been joking.

 

 

start over 다시 시작하다

to begin to do something again, sometimes in a different way

ex) I'll erase all this and start over.

 

 

go on 시작하다

to start operating

ex) She doesn’t go on until Act 2.

 

 

waste something ~ ing 무언가를 ~ 하는데 낭비하다.

to use too much of something or use something badly when there is a limited amount of it

ex) Don't waste precious time talking to him. He's not worth it.

 

 

drown out (소음이) ~를 들리지 않게 하다

If a loud noise drowns out another noise, it prevents it from being heard.

ex) Soft music may help drown out other noises.

 

 

intuition 직관력

an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts

ex) He used his intuition, not a map, to find my house.

 

 

Quizzes

1.  I was about to pay for the shopping when it suddenly ______ me that I'd left my wallet at home.

2. One third of the city's students  ______  before graduation.

3. His voice was  ______  by the traffic.

4. Knowledge does not have to have a ______ .

 

Questions
1. Could you tell me a summary of Job’s three stories?

2. How can we discover what we love according to the video?

3. What do you like doing?

 

Script

Today I wanna tell you 3 stories from my life. Reed College at that time offered the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very very clear looking backward 10 years later. Again you can't connect dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty, we worked hard, and in ten years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollars company with over 4,000 employees. Wed had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier. And I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. So I decided to start over. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I love what I did. You've got to find what you love and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

 

 

Answer

(1) dawn on

(2) drop out

(3) drowned out

(4) practical application