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It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so when she found out that my mother-to-be had never graduated from college and that my father-to-be had never graduated from high school, she refused to sign the adoption papers. She only relented when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.
这要追溯到我出生以前了。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的、没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我，她强烈地认为我应该被大学毕业生收养，所以当她发现我养母从来没有读完大学、养父甚至连高中也没读完时，她拒绝在收养文件上签字。我父母向她保证我一定会上大学，她的心才软了下来。我的人生就从这里开始了。
And 17 years later, I did go to college. 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 of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. 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 far more interesting.
十七年后，我真的上了大学。六个月后，我看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道自己真正想要做什么，也不知道大学能怎样帮助我找到答案，而我却在这里，花着我父母一辈子的全部积蓄。所以我决定退学，坚信一切最终会好起来。现在回头看看，那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。从退学的那一刻开始，我就可以不必去上那些让我不感兴趣的课，而可以开始去选修那些看起来有意思得多的课程。
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.
我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走，遇到了很多东西，这些东西后来被证明是无价之宝。我给你们举一个例子吧。
