64. The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

64. 失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性

The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.

你们是哈佛毕业生的这个事实，说明你们并不很了解失败。你们也许极其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失败。说实话，你们眼中的失败，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，毕竟你们在学业上已经很成功了。

But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people's lives? Your your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. That is your privilege, and your burden.

但是，所有各位哈佛大学2008届的毕业生，你们对其他人的生活产生多少影响呢?你们的智慧、你们的能力、你们所受的教育，给了你们独一无二的优势，也给了你们独一无二的责任。你们的优势就是你们的责任。

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better.

你们要用自己的地位和影响，为那些被忽略的人们说话;你们不仅要看到那些有权有势者，也要看到那些无权元势者;你们要学会设想，那些条件不如你们的人们是如何生活的;那样的话，不仅你们的亲人们将为你们感到自豪，而且千千万万的人们将因为你们的帮助而生活得更好。

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

我们不需要改变世界的魔法，我们自己的体内就有这样的力量：那就是我们一直在梦想，让这个世界变得更美好。