The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.Less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life.During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film "Toy Story", and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events. Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple.And the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.And Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it.Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, 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 to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle.As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
事业成功伴随的沉重不见了，取而代之的是重回起跑线的那种轻盈。对于一切都不再确信无疑。我获得了解放，进而开始了我一生中最富有创造力的时期。在接下去的五年中，我建立了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司，另一家公司是Pixar，并与一位奇妙的女士共堕爱河，她后来成为了我的太太。Pixar 创作出了世界上第一部电脑动画电影《玩具总动员》，现在它已经是世界上最成功的动画工作室了。再后来，一次引人注目的事件产生了转机，苹果公司买下了 NeXT，我重返苹果。而且我们在 NeXT 开发的技术现在成为了苹果复兴事业的核心。Lorene 跟我也组建了一个美好的家庭。我很确定，假如苹果没有开除我，所有这一切都不会发生。我想，这也正是良药苦口利于病吧。有时候，生活会给你当头一棒。不要失去信心。我确信，唯一支撑我前进的东西就是：我爱我所做的事。你必须找到你所爱的东西，这句话不仅适用于你的工作也同样适用于你的爱情。你的工作构成了你生活的大部分，而唯一能让你真正感到满足的就是去做你认为伟大的工作，而做伟大的工作的唯一途径是爱你所做的工作。倘若你还没有找到它，请你继续，不要停下脚步。同所有与心灵相关的东西一样，当你找到它时，你就会明白。而且它会像那些美好的爱情一样，它会随着岁月的流逝而愈加醇美。
