"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's 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. Everything else is secondary."
"You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your 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. 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. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way (...) to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
"People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing and it's totally true. And the reason is because it's so hard that if you don't, any rational person would give up. It's really hard. And you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So if you don't love it, if you're not having fun doing it, you don't really love it, you're going to give up. And that's what happens to most people, actually. If you really look at the ones that ended up, you know, being "successful" in the eyes of society and the ones that didn't, oftentimes, it's the ones [who] were successful loved what they did so they could persevere, you know, when it got really tough. And the ones that didn't love it quit because they're sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don't love it?
So it's a lot of hard work and it's a lot of worrying constantly and if you don't love it, you're going to fail. So you've got to love it and you've got to have passion and I think that's the high-order bit.
(...) you've got to be a really good talent scout because no matter how smart you are, you need a team of great people and you've got to figure out how to size people up fairly quickly, make decisions without knowing people too well and hire them and, you know, see how you do and refine your intuition and be able to help, you know, build an organization that can eventually just, you know, build itself because you need great people around you."
你們還記得我在演講初段問過你們有關遊戲說明書的第四條問題嗎？提倡遊戲教育的美國 ASU 的教授 James Paul Gee 被訪時描述自己少年時買了盒遊戲回家，未玩前看遊戲說明書看得一頭霧水。於是他像其他人一樣，索性直接試玩，當用了些時間掌握遊戲的基本操作方法、詞彙、人物角色、情境後，再看說明書卻會一清二楚。你知道為什麼嗎？
網上非常出名的蕭 sir (蕭愷一先生) 便說過︰「[英文] 文法是從閱讀學來的，要從閱讀中領悟文法，再以文法書鞏固領略得來的知識。」。亦即是說「先用後學」，你覺得讀課本很沈悶，讀來讀去依然弄不明白，很大可能便是因為你沒先嘗試運用，便已開始閱讀課文。
