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中國時報 2008.01.09　
從飲食中對抗憂鬱 吃香蕉南瓜好心情
曹婷婷／南縣報導

吃巧吃健康▲嘉南藥理科技大學生活系針對文明病調配疾病飲食，學子為了秀成果，昨天清晨5時著手烹調，依不同病人所需，調配適合餐點，其中減肥餐與抗憂鬱餐最夯。（曹婷婷攝）

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.

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.

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

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.

炸雞鴨背後的真相

　 　夜市裡的鹽酥雞小販、街角的東山鴨頭攤位...每每經過，那種逼人垂涎的香氣，是不是常常讓你掙扎在口腹之慾與理性克制的兩端呢？

　 　本週熱門文章《炸雞鴨背後的真相》是一位曾經賣過炸雞鴨的老闆的自白。他從一個吃肉會噁心，偶然聞到炸雞鴨的香味而開始學做炸雞鴨的攤販生意，到後來良心自責收手不幹。文中詳細敘述了炸雞鴨醃製的前製作業，以及後來加入各種增色、增香、增甜等各種添加物等。

From: 吳若權  更愛明天的自己 (PChome電子報)

機會，來自對自己的信心；責任，來自對社會隱憂的關懷。

再一次等在機場迎接我時，他已經是某金融集團的一位年輕主管。他笑著問我：「吳老師，還記得我嗎？大學畢業之前，連續三年聽了你的演講，退伍之後，我就加入金融界了。」