Steve Jobs Says It All

Here's a video of Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stamford University in 2005. In it, he talks about 3 stories - connecting the dots, love and loss, and lastly, death.



Connecting the dots (4:52)

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Love and loss (7:48)

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life can hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going, was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for work, as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the way to be truly satisfied, is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work, is to love what you do.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking - and don't settle. As what all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, don't settle.

Death (11:40)

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven, don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is, as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But some day not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared way.

Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living in the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know, what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

My inspiration for the day. :)


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