奧斯卡影帝馬特·達蒙2016年麻省理工畢業(yè)演講（附中英演講稿）

　　But before you step out into our big,troubled world, I want to pass along a piece of advice that Bill Clintonoffered me a little over a decade ago. Well, actually, when he said it, it feltless like advice and more like a direct order.

　　What he said was “turn toward theproblems you see.”

　　It seemed kind of simple at the time,but the older I get, the more wisdom I see in this.

　　And that’s what I want to urge you todo today: turn toward the problems you see.

　　And don’t just turn toward them.Engage with them. Walk right up to them, look them in the eye ... then lookyourself in the eye and decide what you’re going to do about them.

　　In my experience, there’s just nosubstitute for actually going and seeing things.

　　I owe this insight, like many others,to my Mom. When I was a teenager, Mom thought it was important for us to see theworld outside of Boston. And I don’t mean Framingham. She took us to placeslike Guatemala, where we saw extreme poverty up close. It changed my wholeframe of reference.

　　I think it was that same impulse thattook my brother and me to Zambia in 2006, as part of the ONE Campaign — theorganization that Bono founded to fight desperate, stupid poverty andpreventable disease in the developing world. On that trip, in a smallcommunity, I met a girl and walked with her to a nearby bore well where shecould get clean water.

　　She had just come from school. And Iknew the reason that she was able to go to school at all: clean water. Namely,the fact that clean water was available nearby, so she didn’t have to walkmiles back and forth all day to get water for her family, as so many girls andwomen do.

　　I asked her if she wanted to stay inher village when she grew up. She said, “No! I want to go to Lusaka and becomea nurse!”

　　Clean water — something as basic asthat — had given this child the chance to dream.

　　As I learned more about water andsanitation, I was floored by the extent to which it undergirds all theseproblems of extreme poverty. The fate of entire communities, economies,countries is caught up in that glass of water, something the rest of us get totake for granted.

　　People at ONE told me that water isthe least sexy aspect of the effort to fight extreme poverty. And water goeshand-in-hand with sanitation. If you think water isn’t sexy, you should try toget into the shit business.

　　But I was already hooked. Theenormity of it, and the complexity of the issue, had already hooked me. Andgetting out in the world and meeting people like this little girl is what putme on the path to starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer namedGary White.

　　For Gary and me both, seeing theworld ... its problems, its possibilities ... heightened our disbelief that somany people, millions, in fact, can’t get a safe, clean drink of water or asafe, clean, private place to go to the bathroom. And it heightened our determinationto do something about it.

　　You see some tough things out there.But you also see life- changing joy. And it all changes you. . . . . . .

　　Human beings will take your breathaway. They will teach you a lot... but you have to engage.

　　I only had that experience because Iwent there myself. It was horrible in many ways, it was hard to get to ... butof course that’s the point.

　　There’s a lot of trouble out there,MIT. But there’s a lot of beauty, too. I hope you see both.

　　But again, the point is not to becomesome kind of well- rounded, high-minded voyeur.

　　The point is to try to eliminate yourblind spots — the things that keep us from grasping the bigger picture. Andlook, even though I grew up in this neighborhood — in this incredible,multicultural neighborhood that was a little rough at that time — I find myselfhere before you as an American, white, male movie star. I don’t have a cluewhere my blind spots begin and end.

　　But looking at the world as it is,and engaging with it, is the first step toward finding our blind spots. Andthat’s when we can really start to understand ourselves better ... and begin tosolve some problems.

　　With that as your goal, there’s a fewmore things I hope you’ll keep in mind.

　　First, you’re going to failsometimes, and that’s a good thing.

　　For all the amazing successes I’vebeen lucky to share in, few things have shaped me more than the auditions thatBen and I used to do as young actors — where we would get on a bus, show up inNew York, wait for our turn, cry our hearts out for a scene, and then be told,“OK, thanks.” Meaning: game over.

　　We used to call it “being OKthanksed.”

　　Those experiences became our armor.

　　So now you’re thinking, that’s great,Matt. Failure is good. Thanks a ton. Tell me something I didn’t hear at my highschool graduation.

　　To which I say: OK, I will!

　　You know the real danger for MITgraduates? It’s not getting “OK thanksed.” The real danger is all that smokethat’s been blown up your ... graduation gowns about how freaking smart youare.

　　Well, you are that freaking smart!But don’t believe the hype that’s thrown at you. You don’t have all theanswers. And you shouldn’t. And that’s fine.

　　You’re going to have your share ofbad ideas.

　　For me, one was playing a characternamed “Edgar Pudwhacker.”

　　I wish I could tell you I’m makingthat up.

　　But as the great philosopher,Benjamin Affleck, once said: “Judge me by how good my good ideas are, not byhow bad my bad ideas are.” You’ve got to suit up in your armor, and get readyto sound like a total fool.

　　Not having an answer isn’tembarrassing. It’s an opportunity. Don’t be afraid to ask questions.

　　I know so much less the second timeI’m fake graduating than the first time.

　　The second thing I want to leave youwith is that you’ve got to keep listening.

　　The world wants to hear your ideas —good and bad. But today’s not the day you switch from “receive” to “transmit.”O(jiān)nce you do that, your education is over. And your education should never beover. Even outside your work, there are ways to keep challenging yourself.Listen to online lectures. I just retook a philosophy course online that I tookat Harvard when I was nineteen. Or use MIT OpenCourseWare. Go to Wait But Why... or TED.com.

　　I’m told there’s even a TrumpUniversity. I have no earthly idea what they teach there. But whatever you do,just keep listening. Even to people you don’t agree with at all.

　　I love what President Obama said atHoward University’s commencement last month: he said, “Democracy requirescompromise, even when you are 100 percent right.”

　　I heard that and I thought: here is aman who has been happily married for a long time.

　　Not that the First Lady has ever beenwrong about anything.

　　Just like my wife. Never wrong. Noteven when she decided last month that in a family with four kids, what wasmissing in our lives was a third rescue dog.

　　That was an outstanding decision,honey. And I love you.

　　The third and last thought I want toleave you with is that not every problem has a high-tech solution. I guess thisis obvious. But: it is really?

　　If anybody has a right to think wecan pretty much tech support the world’s problems into submission, it’s you.Think of the innovations that got their start at MIT or by MIT alums: the WorldWide Web. Nuclear fission. Condensed soup. (This is true! You should be proud.)

　　But the truth is, we can’t sciencethe shit out of every problem.

　　There is not always a freaking appfor that.

　　Take water again as an example.People are always looking for some scientific quick fix for the problem ofdirty and disease-ridden water. A “pill you put in the glass,” a filter, orsomething like that. But there’s no magic bullet. The problem’s too complex.

　　Yes, there is definitely, absolutelya role for science. There’s incredible advances being made in clean watertechnology. Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad toknow that professors like Susan Mercott at D-Lab are focusing on water andsanitation.

　　But as I’m sure she’d agree, sciencealone can’t solve this problem. We need to be just as innovative in publicpolicy, just as innovative in our financial models. That’s the idea behind anapproach we have at Water.org called WaterCredit.

　　. . . . . .

　　So, graduates, let me ask you this inclosing: What do you want to be a part of? What’s the problem you’ll try tosolve? Whatever your answer, it’s not going to be easy. Sometimes your workwill hit a dead-end. Sometimes your work will be measured in half-steps.

　　And sometimes your work will make youwear a white sequined military uniform and make love to Michael Douglas.

　　Well, maybe that’s just my work.

　　But for all of you here, your workstarts today.

　　And seriously, how lucky are you?

　　I mean, what are the odds that you’rethe ones who are here today?

　　In the Earth’s 4.5 billion year run,with 100 billion people who have lived and died, and with 7 billion of us herenow ... Here you are. Yes, here you are ... alive at a time of potentialextinction-level events ... a time when fewer and fewer people can cause moreand more damage ... a time when science and technology may not hold all theanswers, but are indispensable to any solution.

　　What are the odds that you get to beyou, right now, The MIT class of 2016, with so much on the line?

　　There are potentially trillions ofhuman beings who will someday exist whose fate, in large part, depends on thechoices you make ... on your ideas ... on your grit and persistence andwillingness to engage.

　　If this were a movie I were trying topitch I’d be laughed out of every office in Hollywood.

　　Joseph Campbell himself — he of the“monomyth,” the ultimate hero’s journey — even he wouldn’t even go this far.Campbell would tell me to throttle this down ... lower the stakes.

　　But I can’t. Because this is fact,not fiction. This improbable thing is actually happening. There’s more at staketoday than in any story ever told. And how lucky you are — and how lucky we are— that you’re here, and you’re you.

　　So I hope you’ll turn toward theproblem of your choosing ... Because you must.

　　I hope you’ll drop everything ...Because you must And I hope you’ll solve it. Because you must.

　　This is your life, Class of 2016.This is your moment, and it’s all down to you.

　　Ready player one. Your game begins:now. Congratulations and thanks very much!