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My speech was a car crash because I am too confident
我在牛津大學的演講災難


凱拉韋:最近我在母校演講後,有觀衆當面斥責我,要求我離場。我竟然會如此嚴重地誤判自己的演講效果,這令我震撼。

I took a train to Oxford last Wednesday to give a speech to the benefactors of my old college. I was in excellent spirits. The sun was shining and I was amusing myself reading a blog post by Chip Conley, the entrepreneur, about the wisdom that comes with age. At 56, he likes to see himself less as a carton of milk bearing a sell-by date than a bottle of fine wine that gets better every year.

不久前的一個週三,我坐火車前往牛津,爲我母校的贊助人做一次演講。那天我精神不錯。陽光燦爛,我讀著企業家奇普•康利(Chip Conley)的一篇博文自娛自樂,其內容是智慧隨年齡成長。56歲的他,不把自己視爲一盒帶有保質期的牛奶,而是一瓶放得越久就越香醇的上等葡萄酒。

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