没有字幕，听不懂的看这里

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这个演讲中JK罗琳主要讲了2个方面：the benefits of failure(失败的益处)，the crucial importance of imagination（想象力的重要性）

看了前几分钟你根本不敢相信这是一个commencement speech，这么严肃的场合怎么有这么多笑声，但事实就是如此。JK Rowling以极其幽默的方式开始她的演讲：

1.首先她说这个演讲让她受益匪浅，原因是:一想到这个演讲就让她感到焦虑和恐慌，而这竟然帮助她减肥成功(the weeks of fear and nausea I've experienced at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight)

2.在她的脑海中，她正处于世界上受过最好教育的哈里波特迷的盛大集会之中(fool myself into believing I am at the world's best-educated Harry Potter convention)

3.她记不得当年她毕业时演讲者所说的任何一句话，这使她不必担心自己的演讲对于这些即将毕业的哈佛学生带来不好的影响(This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard)

对于语言的驾驭能力很强，确实非常幽默，高水平的幽默，也符合哈利波特的风格。

之后就真正开始the main point了

首先她谈到了选择专业的问题，她没有听从父母的意见，她现在的成功证明她当时的执着是明智的，但她现在并不埋怨父母当时的意见，因为她知道父母也是为了她好(I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you)

失败的益处在于,它可以帮你剥去那些肤浅的对你无关紧要的东西。你不再装模作样，而是重新找回自己，你会投入所有精力去做对于你最重要的事。如果你在其它的小事上有一点小的成就，也许你就不能发现真正属于你的那片天地(I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you)

如果能回到过去，她会告诉21岁的自己：一个人的幸福在于他懂得--生活不等于你的收获和成就。你的简历，你的证书并不代表你的生活，尽管很多人会混淆着两者，但是生活是如此的复杂，任何人都无法掌控它。明白了这一点，你就能够宠辱不惊(Given a time machine or a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes)

之后就是第二个主题--the crucial importance of imagination,这里她所说的想象力不是写科幻小说的那种想象力，也不是发明创造时所需要的那种想象力，而是怀着怜悯之心，设身处地为他人着想 (Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared)

之后她将了她与一个被残害的非洲青年接触的故事，她呼吁大家要设身处地的多为他人着想，为那些在痛苦中苦苦挣扎的人们着想。

对于中国人来说，你是不是可以为那些“农民工”着想着想，对于他们，我们不应该歧视，他们生活在社会的底层，更需要我们的关注。

最后她送给大家一句古罗马的箴言：人生就像故事，不在于漫长，而在于精彩(As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters)

从这个演讲看，JK Rowling的确不一般，她的成功不是偶然。总之，很精彩的演讲，我看了4遍。

ps:建议不要看带字幕的，原汁原味的才精彩