比尔盖茨：如果再上大学，我会选择这三个专业！

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众所周知，1975年，比尔·盖茨从哈佛辍学。作为拥有900亿美元个人财富的全球首富、微软联合创始人和著名的慈善家。

虽然盖茨从来没有获得过大学学位，但他对全世界年轻人的影响力无疑是巨大的。

比尔·盖茨经常被邀请为大学毕业典礼的演讲嘉宾

近期，比尔·盖茨专门在推特上给今年毕业的大学生们发出了一系列（14条简短推文）的建议，这些建议主要关乎职业发展和个人成长。

首先关于专业选择和职业规划，比尔·盖茨表示，如果他现在进入大学，他将主修人工智能，能源或生物科学（artificial intelligence, energy, or biosciences）。他认为这三个是“大有希望的领域”，年轻人可以在其中获得成功并产生巨大的影响。

同时比尔·盖茨在Mic上发了一篇写给“想要改变世界”的大学毕业生的博文，对推特上发的内容做以更详细的补充。

关于这三个领域他写道：

第一是人工智能，使人们的生活更有成效和创造力。

第二是能源，因为清洁、负担得起、可靠，对于消除贫困和气候变化的影响至关重要。

第三是生物科学，已经日益成熟，有可能帮助人们活得更长、更健康。

比尔·盖茨的建议来自于他的个人经验。作为盖茨基金会的共同主席，多年来他不仅关注高科技领域的发展，同时对世界性的贫困和疾病问题投入大量的财力和精力。所以他预测这三个领域未来有更广阔的发展前景。

回忆自己的大学时代，比尔·盖茨写道：“如果时光能倒转，回到我离开大学的时候，我希望那时候的自己能够了解更多。

比如，人的智力可以表现为不同的形式，而不是单向一维的。而且智力因素并没有我曾经以为的那么重要。"

在微软的早期，比尔·盖茨相信只要你可以编写好的代码，你就可以很好地管理他人，或者管理一个营销团队，或者承担任何其他任务。

现在他承认自己错了，他已经学会欣赏人们拥有的不同方面的才能。他告诫年轻人：“你越早认识到这一点，你的生活就会变得更加富足。”

追忆青春，这位世界首富有没有什么遗憾？当然有，不过，他最后悔的既不是从哈佛辍学，更不是创办了微软。“我最大的后悔是，当我离开学校时，我对世界上最严重的不平等现象几乎不了解，之后我用了几十年的时间来学习和了解。”

比尔·盖茨回忆：“我30多岁和梅琳达（他的妻子，盖茨基金会的共同主席）第一次去非洲旅行时，对所看到的感到无比震惊。数以百万计的贫困儿童死于在富裕国家里早已根除的那些疾病，我们认为这是世界上最不公正的事情，我们必须参与到其中去改变这些。”

比尔·盖茨鼓励年轻人：“你们比我当年对这个世界了解得更多，你们应该早日开始向不平等开战，可以到世界各地，也可以从自己身边社区做起。”

关于个人成长，比尔·盖茨建议：“与那些挑战你、教导你、推动你的人在一起，能让你成为更好的自己，这就像梅琳达对我所做的一切。”

比尔·盖茨和妻子梅琳达·盖茨

早年的比尔·盖茨无意成立慈善基金会，因此遭媒体批评为“吝啬”。梅琳达与比尔·盖茨共同创办了盖茨基金会。在梅琳达的影响之下，盖茨基金会重点关注在有需要的地区消除、防治艾滋病、疟疾和肺结核等项目。

谈到幸福观，比尔·盖茨认为自己的快乐并非来自天文数字、且不断增长的个人财富，“像巴菲特一样，我衡量幸福的标准是我能否让身边的人快乐，他们是否爱我，以及我给他人的生活带来的积极变化。”

比尔·盖茨还推荐了一本书，史蒂芬·皮克（Steven Pinker）的《我们天性中的美好天使》(The Better Angels of Our Nature，台版译为《人性中的良善天使》)。他说这是他读过的最有启发性的书。

书的作者认为世界正在改善，比尔·盖茨说："听起来很疯狂，但这是真的，现在是人类历史上最平静的时刻。"(比尔·盖茨在推特里这么一推荐，这本书当天下午在亚马逊网站的销量立刻飙升。)

比尔·盖茨接着阐述了自己的世界观：“如果你认为这个世界正在变得更好，你就会愿意把各种进步传播给更多的人，传播到更多的地方。当然，这不意味着你要无视我们所面临的问题，而是意味着你相信这些问题终将得到解决。”

他强调：“这是我世界观的核心， 它在艰难的时期支持着我，是我热爱自己的工作的动因，我相信它同样对你有效。”

比尔·盖茨与大女儿詹妮弗·凯瑟琳·盖茨

比尔·盖茨最后寄语年轻的大学生：“这是一个了不起的时代”，他希望年轻人不虚度，不辜负。

比尔·盖茨的十四条推特言简意赅，相信这些建议不仅会让大学毕业生，同时也会让即将进入大学的新生，甚至更多的人受益匪浅。

最后，祝大家好运。生活在这个神奇的时代，何其幸运。我希望你们能充分利用，大有可为。

附英文全文：

Dear Class of 2017…

Congratulations! You’ve just accomplished something I never managed to do—earn a college degree.

Between your commencement speaker and every aunt and uncle at your graduation party, I am sure you are getting a lot of advice. At the risk of piling on, I thought I would share a few thoughts.

New college graduates often ask me for career advice. I was lucky to be in my early 20s when the digital revolution was just getting under way, and Paul Allen and I had the chance to help shape it. (Which explains my lack of a college degree—I left school because we were afraid the revolution would happen without us.) If I were starting out today and looking for the same kind of opportunity to make a big impact in the world, I would consider three fields.

One is artificial intelligence. We have only begun to tap into all the ways it will make people’s lives more productive and creative. The second is energy, because making it clean, affordable, and reliable will be essential for fighting poverty and climate change. The third is the biosciences, which are ripe with opportunities to help people live longer, healthier lives.

But some things in life are true no matter what career you choose. I wish I had understood these things better when I left school. For one thing, intelligence is not quite as important as I thought it was, and it takes many different forms. In the early days of Microsoft, I believed that if you could write great code, you could also manage people well or run a marketing team or take on any other task. I was wrong about that. I had to learn to recognize and appreciate people’s different talents. The sooner you can do this, if you don’t already, the richer your life will be.

Another thing I wish I had understood much earlier is what true inequity looks like. I did not see it up close until my late 30s, when Melinda and I took our first trip to Africa. We were shocked by what we saw. When we came back, we began learning more. It blew our minds that millions of children there were dying from diseases that no one in rich countries even worried about. We thought it was the most unjust thing in the world. We realized we couldn’t wait to get involved—we had to start giving back right away.

You know much more than I did when I was your age. Technology lets you see problems in ways my friends and I never could, and it empowers you to help in ways we never could. You can start fighting inequity sooner, whether it is in your own community or in a country halfway around the world.

Meanwhile, I encourage you to surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self. Melinda does that for me, and I am a better person for it. Like our good friend Warren Buffett, I measure my happiness by whether people close to me are happy and love me, and by the difference I make in other people’s lives.

If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be a copy of The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker. After several years of studying, you may not exactly be itching to read a 700-page book. But please put this one on your reading list to get to someday. It is the most inspiring book I have ever read.

Pinker makes a persuasive argument that the world is getting better—that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history. This can be a hard case to make, especially now. When you tell people the world is improving, they often look at you like you’re either na?ve or crazy.

But it’s true. And once you understand it, you start to see the world differently. If you think things are getting better, then you want to know what’s working, so you can accelerate the progress and spread it to more people and places.

It doesn’t mean you ignore the serious problems we face. It just means you believe they can be solved, and you’re moved to act on that belief.

This is the core of my worldview. It sustains me in tough times and is the reason I still love my philanthropic work after more than 17 years. I think it can do the same for you.

Good luck to all of you. This is an amazing time to be alive. I hope you make the most of it.

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众所周知，比尔盖茨以“财富”闻名世界，他所说，如果可以再上大学，他会选择这三个专业。以他的观点，想必这几个专业会是今后热门行业and财富趋向。

有留学意向的宝宝们可以参考下。

祝宝宝们都能申请到心仪的院校~