德雷普英雄学院：毕业的时候，你就是英雄了
按：文章是夏天写的，对，我又拖了三个月才发出来……囧
文／简里里
一月份我还在德雷普英雄学院(Draper University)的时候，激动地写了一篇夸奖它的文章。我甚至信誓旦旦地在后面标注上（一），以示我还会继续写下去。
然后就到了半年后的今天。
期间发生了无数的事情。比如我卖了最多的奢侈级的女性振动棒，竟然在一个女性话题的分享时当众落泪，我在荒野求生中活了下来，和一群年轻人将房顶掀翻，我居然还拿到了投资。
那段时间像是个缓慢又紧凑地小提琴曲，你有一搭没一搭地往前走，周围都是友善的朋友，人多但恰好留有你想要的距离空间，也恰好在湍急中能保持自己的节奏。你缓慢地走，停下的时候恍然发现你已翻过一个山丘。你路过的那些人，以前的那些过往，全都留在了山的另一边。
你听到他们在山的那一边大喊：祝你好运！祝你好运！
毕业的时候，你就是英雄了。
Tim Draper 在毕业典礼上说，我要向你们道一个歉。本来你们可以过更稳定、更正常的生活，找份不错的工作，结个不错的婚，吃饭睡觉休闲娱乐。可是现在你不能了，因为你是英雄。你要去完成你的使命，解决一个问题。
这其实是个俗套的故事。去德雷普英雄学院之前，我是个工作了六、七年的大学老师，拿稳定的收入，过一成不变的生活，有着所有人都有的迷茫，困惑，和对生活的无力感。我只是打算去休个假，跑到世界另一端的小镇上，过一过早晨九点出门，迎面来的老人会向你微笑示意的生活。
英雄学院？这么傻的名字。鬼才想当英雄。你才是英雄，你们全家都是英雄。
可是现在我居然真的要飞回地球的另一端，解决一个问题！因为他说你是英雄！
回国之后，我辞了职，顺利地拿了投资，建团队，做产品。你一头扎进游乐场里最危险刺激的游戏里面。快速旋转，忽上忽下，来不及思考，你的变化很快。你学习到很多新的说话方式，见完全不一样的人，你转换新的角色，生活变了一个样子。是男生变女生那种变化。一日如三秋，信息量大得惊人，以至于我上床睡觉的时候，想起前一天仿佛是去年夏天。
我记得多年前有一些老师会在冥想的时候，让你去回忆一个让你觉得舒服的地方，想像你在它之中。我常常回忆起小时候住的屋子，有高高的石板窗檐，有阿姨送我了一个无土栽培的番茄盒子，我精心地养它，每天晚上躺在床上抱着希望睡去，梦想我醒来时候番茄的枝叶爬满我床边左手的墙壁，蔓延过大大的窗户。
实际上那个番茄只长出了几根嫩芽冬天就来了。可那段时间对于我是如此美好，因为我每天都抱着希望睡觉。
这次也一样。我每每在半夜开车回家的时候，做饭的时候，头痛欲裂的时候，想起在英雄学院的时光，想起和Adi喝得半醉在路上因为莫名其妙的事情笑得失声，想起冒着大雨徒步跳海，想起走一个又一个街区去啃猪排，想起在豆包袋子上面听讲座一边瞌睡一边祈祷不要被扔进游泳池去。这些都莫名其妙给我力量。
好像山的那一边，都是和你相爱的人，你看不见他们，他们也看不见你。但你知道他们在，你也在安心住自己的身体里面。
纵使前面荆棘并不坦途，你仍然愿意抱着希望一直往前走。嗯，无论前方如何，你可以丢宝藏丢线路图丢盔甲丢脸面。
但不丢了希望。
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以下是@峰哥何峰 翻译成英文
Draper University of Heroes: by the time you graduate, you are a hero
by Jane Li
In Jan. when I was at Draper University of Heroes, I wrote an article with much enthusiasm, wanting the world to know how great it is. I titled it "Part I", to show that there's more to come.
Then half a year went by.
Many things happened in between. I won, by far, the vibrator sales competition; I cried at an experience sharing event; I survived in wilderness, I lift the roof off a building with my DU fellows.
I even had someone investing in my idea.
It felt like a slow yet succinct violin piece. You kept forging ahead, surrounded by friends. It was crowded but left just the right amount of space for you, letting you keeping your own pace. You kept forging ahead, and when you stop to take a break, you were surprised to see that you have climbed over a mountain. The people you passed, all the things from the past, you left them at the other side of the mountain.
You hear them yelling at the other side: good luck! Good luck!
When you graduate, you are a hero.
Tim Draper said at graduation: I want to apologize. You could have had a more stable, more normal life, a good job, a good marriage, eat and sleep and exercise. But you can't now, because you are heroes. You have a mission. You need to solve a problem.
This is a story that has been told many times. Before Draper University, I worked for 7 years at a university, had a stable salary, living a repetitive life. I had the same confusion and frustration and feeling of helplessness like everyone else. I only wanted a break, at the other end of the world, where people would smile at me when I head out in the morning.
Heroes? It never crossed my mind.
But now I am flying back to my end of the world. I am going to solve a problem. Because he said, you are a hero!
I quit my job. I raised funding, built a team, designed a product. I went head first into the most exciting game there is. Spinning, up and down. There is no time to think. I am changing every moment. I learned a new way to talk; I am meeting entirely different people. I am playing a new role. Life changed. There is so much happening in one day, that when I went to bed at the end of the day, yesterday felt like last summer.
Years ago, my meditation teacher would instruct me to think of a place that's comfortable, imagine myself being there. I always thought of the room of my childhood. It had tall windows. At the time someone gave me a tomato plant as a gift. Everyday I fell asleep, I hoped that by the time I woke up, the tomato would have grown over my side of the wall, covering the tall windows.
Winter came before the tomato had the chance to sprout more than a few leaves. But it was a beautiful time, because everyday I fell asleep with hope.
It's a beautiful time now. When I was driving home in the middle of the night, when I was hacking together a quick meal, when my head was hurting, I think of the time at DU, I think of when I couldn't help laughing after a night out with Adi, half drunk; I think of jumping into the sea in pouring raining; I think of walking over blocks after blocks to get some ribs; I think of laying on bean bags trying to stay awake and praying that I wouldn't be thrown into the pool. All of these thoughts gave me strength somehow.
It's like at the other side of the mountain, there are all these people that love you. You can't see them, and they can't see you. But you know they are there, and you are comfortable in your own skin.
It's a hard journey ahead, but I am forging on with hope.
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DraperU 2015一月份课程的面试时间专门为中国学生延长了几天，抓紧报名哟！
详情查官网：draperuniversity.com
文／简里里
一月份我还在德雷普英雄学院(Draper University)的时候，激动地写了一篇夸奖它的文章。我甚至信誓旦旦地在后面标注上（一），以示我还会继续写下去。
然后就到了半年后的今天。
期间发生了无数的事情。比如我卖了最多的奢侈级的女性振动棒，竟然在一个女性话题的分享时当众落泪，我在荒野求生中活了下来，和一群年轻人将房顶掀翻，我居然还拿到了投资。
那段时间像是个缓慢又紧凑地小提琴曲，你有一搭没一搭地往前走，周围都是友善的朋友，人多但恰好留有你想要的距离空间，也恰好在湍急中能保持自己的节奏。你缓慢地走，停下的时候恍然发现你已翻过一个山丘。你路过的那些人，以前的那些过往，全都留在了山的另一边。
你听到他们在山的那一边大喊：祝你好运！祝你好运！
毕业的时候，你就是英雄了。
Tim Draper 在毕业典礼上说，我要向你们道一个歉。本来你们可以过更稳定、更正常的生活，找份不错的工作，结个不错的婚，吃饭睡觉休闲娱乐。可是现在你不能了，因为你是英雄。你要去完成你的使命，解决一个问题。
这其实是个俗套的故事。去德雷普英雄学院之前，我是个工作了六、七年的大学老师，拿稳定的收入，过一成不变的生活，有着所有人都有的迷茫，困惑，和对生活的无力感。我只是打算去休个假，跑到世界另一端的小镇上，过一过早晨九点出门，迎面来的老人会向你微笑示意的生活。
英雄学院？这么傻的名字。鬼才想当英雄。你才是英雄，你们全家都是英雄。
可是现在我居然真的要飞回地球的另一端，解决一个问题！因为他说你是英雄！
回国之后，我辞了职，顺利地拿了投资，建团队，做产品。你一头扎进游乐场里最危险刺激的游戏里面。快速旋转，忽上忽下，来不及思考，你的变化很快。你学习到很多新的说话方式，见完全不一样的人，你转换新的角色，生活变了一个样子。是男生变女生那种变化。一日如三秋，信息量大得惊人，以至于我上床睡觉的时候，想起前一天仿佛是去年夏天。
我记得多年前有一些老师会在冥想的时候，让你去回忆一个让你觉得舒服的地方，想像你在它之中。我常常回忆起小时候住的屋子，有高高的石板窗檐，有阿姨送我了一个无土栽培的番茄盒子，我精心地养它，每天晚上躺在床上抱着希望睡去，梦想我醒来时候番茄的枝叶爬满我床边左手的墙壁，蔓延过大大的窗户。
实际上那个番茄只长出了几根嫩芽冬天就来了。可那段时间对于我是如此美好，因为我每天都抱着希望睡觉。
这次也一样。我每每在半夜开车回家的时候，做饭的时候，头痛欲裂的时候，想起在英雄学院的时光，想起和Adi喝得半醉在路上因为莫名其妙的事情笑得失声，想起冒着大雨徒步跳海，想起走一个又一个街区去啃猪排，想起在豆包袋子上面听讲座一边瞌睡一边祈祷不要被扔进游泳池去。这些都莫名其妙给我力量。
好像山的那一边，都是和你相爱的人，你看不见他们，他们也看不见你。但你知道他们在，你也在安心住自己的身体里面。
纵使前面荆棘并不坦途，你仍然愿意抱着希望一直往前走。嗯，无论前方如何，你可以丢宝藏丢线路图丢盔甲丢脸面。
但不丢了希望。
------
以下是@峰哥何峰 翻译成英文
Draper University of Heroes: by the time you graduate, you are a hero
by Jane Li
In Jan. when I was at Draper University of Heroes, I wrote an article with much enthusiasm, wanting the world to know how great it is. I titled it "Part I", to show that there's more to come.
Then half a year went by.
Many things happened in between. I won, by far, the vibrator sales competition; I cried at an experience sharing event; I survived in wilderness, I lift the roof off a building with my DU fellows.
I even had someone investing in my idea.
It felt like a slow yet succinct violin piece. You kept forging ahead, surrounded by friends. It was crowded but left just the right amount of space for you, letting you keeping your own pace. You kept forging ahead, and when you stop to take a break, you were surprised to see that you have climbed over a mountain. The people you passed, all the things from the past, you left them at the other side of the mountain.
You hear them yelling at the other side: good luck! Good luck!
When you graduate, you are a hero.
Tim Draper said at graduation: I want to apologize. You could have had a more stable, more normal life, a good job, a good marriage, eat and sleep and exercise. But you can't now, because you are heroes. You have a mission. You need to solve a problem.
This is a story that has been told many times. Before Draper University, I worked for 7 years at a university, had a stable salary, living a repetitive life. I had the same confusion and frustration and feeling of helplessness like everyone else. I only wanted a break, at the other end of the world, where people would smile at me when I head out in the morning.
Heroes? It never crossed my mind.
But now I am flying back to my end of the world. I am going to solve a problem. Because he said, you are a hero!
I quit my job. I raised funding, built a team, designed a product. I went head first into the most exciting game there is. Spinning, up and down. There is no time to think. I am changing every moment. I learned a new way to talk; I am meeting entirely different people. I am playing a new role. Life changed. There is so much happening in one day, that when I went to bed at the end of the day, yesterday felt like last summer.
Years ago, my meditation teacher would instruct me to think of a place that's comfortable, imagine myself being there. I always thought of the room of my childhood. It had tall windows. At the time someone gave me a tomato plant as a gift. Everyday I fell asleep, I hoped that by the time I woke up, the tomato would have grown over my side of the wall, covering the tall windows.
Winter came before the tomato had the chance to sprout more than a few leaves. But it was a beautiful time, because everyday I fell asleep with hope.
It's a beautiful time now. When I was driving home in the middle of the night, when I was hacking together a quick meal, when my head was hurting, I think of the time at DU, I think of when I couldn't help laughing after a night out with Adi, half drunk; I think of jumping into the sea in pouring raining; I think of walking over blocks after blocks to get some ribs; I think of laying on bean bags trying to stay awake and praying that I wouldn't be thrown into the pool. All of these thoughts gave me strength somehow.
It's like at the other side of the mountain, there are all these people that love you. You can't see them, and they can't see you. But you know they are there, and you are comfortable in your own skin.
It's a hard journey ahead, but I am forging on with hope.
------------------------
DraperU 2015一月份课程的面试时间专门为中国学生延长了几天，抓紧报名哟！
详情查官网：draperuniversity.com
