本周孩子们观看的是Steve Jobs的演讲How to Live Before You Die （咋翻呢？直译太没有味道了！）这并不是Jobs在TED上的演讲，但却在TED上拥有很高的观看次数。下面是孩子们的一些分享。

1.      This ted talk is by Steve Jobs. No big deals, just three stories. He believed that the things, which seemed bad to him made him succeed. He said sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick, don’t lose faith. You’ve got to find what you want and just continue doing it. Jobs didn’t complete the college but he chose the classes he wanted to learn. He opened three companies in his life. All of them were the best ones. When he knew he was going to die, he asked himself every day, “ If this is my last day, will I do like this?” This made him more successful.

2.      Steve Jobs tells three short stories during his speech: “Connecting the Dots’’, “Love and Loss” and “Death”. In the end, Jobs closed his Stanford University Commencement address with a simple phrase to inspire the students. A phrase that summarized the way that they were to venture out into the world and approach their lives and careers: “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” I really like this sentence and the idea if you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right. 

3.      This weekend, I’ve watched a TED talk by Steven Jobs: How to live before you die. This was a famous talk at Stanford. Steven Jobs told three stories about his life, and encouraged the students to work hard and to face the difficulties in their lives bravely. I’ve learned that we should be more enthusiastic towards life and study hard, but also be patient because sometimes it is foolish to be so irascible. And I think it is important to ‘live each day as if it was your last’. If we are living in that way, we will do something really helpful for ourselves or the others than just daydreaming all day and waste our time.

4.      This is one of the most important lessons in my life. There hasn’t been anything more interesting ever. How to live before you die. My dad asked me how? My answer was just one word, ‘Happily.’ Well, “happily” refers to your past, your loves and your death. Your past: Connect your past with your future, make a better life. Your loves: Stick to what you love, never part with it. Do what you love, never retreat. Your death: die without not wanting an end. But remember, even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die. So live happily the rest of your life.

5.      After watching it through Sina, I realized that this talk made by Jobs isn’t an appropriate ted talk. But still, it is worthwhile to watch it. A few anecdotes were told in the talk – which was rather unusual in comparison with the other talks I’ve watched before. The first one is about connecting the dots – Jobs dropped out of some “useless” courses and somehow attended a calligraphy course or sort of. This choice somehow changed the world. From this I believe that Jobs was putting forward an idea about creating opportunity through finding tasks – or in the other way, something you believe to be meaningful. Perhaps this is what everyone in the CAE class is doing. The second anecdote is rather well known – Jobs told us his unique experience about being fired from a company he started. Through the loss, Jobs gained “the best thing ever” in his life. It is “not a tasty medicine”, but “the patient needs it – it is possible that our failure leads to our greatest success.” Owning to this fact, we should become more optimistic to our life, right? We should love our objectives. The last anecdote is absolutely “dreadful” – not because it is poorly done, but because it is about “death”. “Remembering that you will die is the way to avoid thinking that you have something to lose (the original sentence is not like this – I sort of retelling it). In this part of the talk, Jobs stated an idea that death is somehow encouraging and renewing the world. “Stay hungry, stay foolish” (I don’t know what this sentence is doing in the talk, but I guess it’s important because it appears several times at the end), and finally the talk ended. The anecdotes were encouraging, and the humor is similar to that of Sugata Mitra. Now Steve Jobs has passed away as a result of the cancer mentioned in the talk. It is an obvious fact that he was an incredible man who changed the world – so why not learn from him?

6.      Steve Jobs, who was an American entrepreneurand inventor, best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc, made a perfect talk: How To Live Before You Die. In this talk, there are many great sentences, keep going, and don’t settle in one of them. I was touched by this sentence, if you give up, you even don’t have a chance to succeed. Stay hungry, stay foolish is another one. I have heard this sentence a long time ago by my English teacher, and I remembered it clearly. This talk told three stories, I think I have learned a lot from this talk.