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チャンスはどこにでも
「チャンスはどこにでも転がっているのです。だから、眼を開いて見ればいいのです。」
最近みたテレビ番組で、あるコメンテーターが好きな言葉として、
冒頭の言葉をとりあげていました。
至極当然な言葉なのですが、私には、この言葉がとても心に響きました。
日本の政治、経済が混迷を深め、閉塞感漂う現在の状況は、
江戸幕末期の世相と重なって見えます。
徳川幕府の統治能力が低下し、諸外国から開国を迫られる中で、
国を憂う各地の志士達が立ち上り、旧体制は崩壊しました。
そして、時代は大きく動きました。
その変革の中で、大きなチャンスを手にした人たちがいました。
混沌とした時代だからこそ、先見力と実行力があれば、
チャンスを手にする好機となるのです。
今まさにその時期なのです。
- THINK - Steve Jobs
T H I N K
写真のSteve Jobs氏の背景に掲げられているレインボーカラーで印刷された” THINK ”（考える）という文字。
また、Jobs氏がAppleに復帰して最初に行った" Think different " キャンペーン。
彼が仕事において、一番大事にしていた言葉は「 THINK 」 だったのでは。。。
創造的な仕事に携わる人は、よりよい作品を生み出すために常に考え続けています。
考え続けていると、ある瞬間に「ひらめき」が頭に浮かんできます。
そして、この「ひらめき」こそが偉大な発明を産み出す源になるわけです。
「考え続ける」という習慣を、自分のものにし、それを活かすことができる人だけが、
成功という果実を手にすることができるのでしょう。
P.S. 私の場合、「ひらめき」が出やすい空間は、車の運転中と飛行機の搭乗中です。不思議と移動する時間帯に良いアイデアが浮かんでくるのです。
「Steve Jobs」 Walter Isaacson 著
世界中でベストセラーになっている書籍「Steve Jobs」Walter Isaacson 著
日本における出版数もすでに100万部を超えているようです。
１人の経営者の伝記でこれほどまでに反響のあった本は過去にも例がないと思います。
私も今下巻を読んでいる最中です。
私が、20年前に購入した最初のパソコンはアップルコンピューターのMacintosh SE30でした。
ユーザーフレンドリーな操作方法に基づいて設計されたMacのオペレーティングシステム（OS）は、コンピュータの専門知識を持ち合わせていない私でも、とても使いやすい画期的な製品でした。
「コンピューターを誰もが簡単に使える美しい（シンプルな）製品にする」
Steve Jobs氏が理想とする製品はまさにその１点にあったのでしょう。
Jobs氏の狙い通りに、今ではコンピューターは誰もが簡単に使える製品となり、
コンピューターなしの生活は考えられないくらい私たちの暮らしの中にとけ込んでいます。
この著書は、本のタイトル通りスティーブ・ジョブズ氏個人の生き様を中心に書かれています。
今まで知られていなかった出生にまつわる話から恋愛・結婚、常人の枠を超越した彼の言動や行動、デザインに対する飽くなき追求、天才的な交渉力、卓越した先見性、人材の活用など。
一歩間違えば、独善的な人物で終わってしまったかもしれない強烈なパーソナリティーが
いかにして、その人生を歩いて行ったのか。
コンピューターに関心のない人にも、是非一読していただきたいと思います。
「Steve Jobs」の生き方を知ることで、そこから学べるものがたくさん詰まっています。
不可能を可能に変えることができた男 それがスティーブ・ジョブズ氏でした。
スティーブ・ジョブズ氏追悼式典
2011年10月20日（日本時間）に行われたスティーブ・ジョブズ氏の追悼式典
カリフォルニア州 クパチーノ アップル本社にて行われたスティーブ・ジョブズ氏の追悼式典の映像をAppleのサイトで見ることができます。
追悼スピーチ
ティム・クック 最高経営責任者
ビル・キャンベル 取締役会メンバー
ジョナサン・アイブ IDG上級副社長
アル・ゴア 元副大統領 （アップル社外取締役）
追悼演奏
ノラ・ジョーンズ
コールドプレイ
スティーブ・ジョブズとの関わり合いの中で、それぞれの思い出を語っています。
私は、アップル再興の立役者の一人であるジョナサン・アイブのスピーチに関心を持ちました。
ジョナサン・アイブは、アップル社の業績が低迷する中でも、アップル社の可能性を信じ奮闘していた社内の優秀なプロダクトデザイナーです。ジョブズ氏はアップルに復帰して、社内のプロジェクトを点検する中で、ジョナサン・アイブの能力と社内で眠っていたままになっていたiMacのデザインの可能性を見抜き、商品化に乗り出す事になります。
iMacは、Apple復活の立役者となったばかりでなく、以降の革新的な製品を生み出す原動力になりました。
Steve Jobs 2005 スタンフォード大学祝賀スピーチ
Apple Steve Jobs氏は、2005年 6月 12日にスタンフォード大学の学位授与式において、
卒業生に対するはなむけのスピーチを行いました。
彼自身はスタンフォード大学の出身ではありませんが、妻の出身大学であり、
シリコンバレーにメインキャンパスを持つ教育機関としてアップル製品の導入にも熱心な
大学ゆえ、自ら運命を切りひらいてきた稀代の経営者に白羽の矢を立てたのである。
（スティーブ・ジョブズとアップル奇蹟の奇跡より）
スピーチのテーマ「私の人生から学んだ３つのこと」
1「点をつなぐ」 2「愛と敗北」 3「死」
No.1/2「点をつなぐ」、「愛と敗北」
No.2/2「死」
スタンフォード大学 公式ページ
STANFORD UNIVERSITY NEWS
Text of Steve Job's Commencement address (2005)
Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
スティーブ・ジョブズ スピーチ原稿
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps 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. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten 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. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. 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 of 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 worlds 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, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene 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 hits 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 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. (1)
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
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 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. Everything else is secondary. (2)
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
膵臓がんの手術を受けたジョブズ氏は、死に直面したことで自らの人生観を変えることになります。「潔い生き方」（シンプルな生き方 ー 無駄のない人生）は、その後の製品作りに大きな影響を及ぼしたと思います。
＊背景が黄緑色の部分を和訳します。
（和訳1）
アップルを追われなかったら、今の私は無かったでしょう。非常に苦い薬でしたが、私にはそういうつらい経験が必要だったのでしょう。最悪のできごとに見舞われても、信念を失わないこと。自分の仕事を愛してやまなかったからこそ、前進し続けられたのです。皆さんも大好きなことを見つけてください。仕事でも恋愛でも同じです。仕事は人生の一大事です。やりがいを感じることができるただ一つの方法は、すばらしい仕事だと心底思えることをやることです。そして偉大なことをやり抜くただ一つの道は、仕事を愛することでしょう。好きなことがまだ見つからないなら、探し続けてください。決して立ち止まってはいけない。本当にやりたいことが見つかった時には、不思議と自分でもすぐに分かるはずです。すばらしい恋愛と同じように、時間がたつごとによくなっていくものです。だから、探し続けてください。絶対に、立ち尽くしてはいけません。
（和訳2）
あなた方の時間は限られています。だから、本意でない人生を生きて時間を無駄にしないでください。ドグマにとらわれてはいけない。それは他人の考えに従って生きることと同じです。他人の考えに溺れるあまり、あなた方の内なる声がかき消されないように。そして何より大事なのは、自分の心と直感に従う勇気を持つことです。あなた方の心や直感は、自分が本当は何をしたいのかもう知っているはず。ほかのことは二の次で構わないのです。
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