One of the Greatest Speeches Ever | Steve Jobs

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life, that's not a big deal, just three stories, the first story is about connecting the dots. I left Reed College after the first six months, but then I dropped out for another 18. a few months before I actually left, so why did I leave? It started before I was born. My birth mother was a young single graduate student and she decided to put me up for adoption. She was very convinced that I should be adopted by college graduates. so

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ything was set for a lawyer and his wife to adopt me at birth, except when I came out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl, so my parents, who were on the waiting list, got a call on the in the middle of the night asking: we have an unexpected baby: do you want him?

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graduated from college and my father had never graduated from high school. He refused to sign the final adoption papers that a few months later when my parents promised I would go to college, this was the beginning of my life and 17 years later I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive like Stanford and all the others. My savings from working-class parents were being spent on college tuition after six months. I couldn't see the value in it.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and I had no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. and here I was spending all the money my parents had saved their entire lives, so I decided to give up and trust that everything would work out. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. By the time I left school I was able to stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and start taking the ones that seemed much more interesting.

It wasn't at all romantic. I didn't have a bedroom, so I slept on the floor. in my friends' rooms I returned bottles of Coca-Cola in exchange for five-cent deposits to buy food and walked seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hari Temple Krishna. I loved it and much of what I found. Following my curiosity and intuition later turned out to be priceless, let me give you an example: the university at the time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country on the entire campus, every sign, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes.

I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about how to vary the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science cannot capture and I found it fascinating. None of this had even the hope of practical application in my life. Ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. and we designed it all on the Mac, it was the first computer with beautiful typography.

If you had never taken that one course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows simply copied the Mac, it's likely no personal computer would have them if it had never abandoned them, ever. I would have taken that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do, of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. but it became very, very clear, looking back 10 years later, again, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking back, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future, You have to trust something that is your instinct.

Destiny Life Karma whatever because believing that the dots will connect along the way will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the beaten path and that will make all the difference. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky to find what I love to do at a young age and started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20 years old. We worked hard and within 10 years Apple had gone from just the two of us in a garage to a two billion dollar company. company with more than four thousand employees, we had just launched our best creation, Macintosh, a year earlier and I had just turned 30 years old. and then they fired me, how can you be fired from a company that you started well as Apple was growing?

We hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me and for the first year things went well, but then our visions for the future began to diverge and we finally had a falling out when we did, our board of directors took sides of him, so at 30 I was What had been the focus of my entire adult life had disappeared and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt like I had let down the previous generation of entrepreneurs I had had. I dropped the baton as they passed it to me.

I met with David Packard and Bob Noyes and tried to apologize for making such a serious mistake. I was a very public failure and even thought about fleeing the valley, but little by little something began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed in the slightest. I had been rejected, but I was still in love and decided to start over. I didn't see it and then it turned out that I was fired. from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me, the heaviness of success was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure of everything, it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life for the next five years.

I started a company called Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar created the world's first computer-animated film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world in a remarkable turn of events Apple bought it next and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed next is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance and Lorraine and I have a wonderful family together. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I had. I haven't been fired from Apple, it was horrible tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it at some point.

Life is going to hit you over the head with a brick sometimes. Don't lose faith. I am convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You have 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 only way to to be truly satisfied is 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, for with all matters of the heart You'll know when you find it. and like any great relationship, it gets better and better as the years go by, so keep looking, don't settle.

My third story is about death when I was 17 years old. I read a quote that said something like if you live every day as if it were your last day, you're probably right, it made a big impression on me and since then, for the last 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and wondering if today would be the last day of my life and what I want to do. do what I am about to do today and every time the answer has been no for many days in a row I know I need to change something, remembering that I will be dead soon is the most important tool I have found to help me. make the big decisions in life because almost everything, all the external expectations, all the pride, all the fear of shame or failure, these things simply disappear in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important, remembering that you are going to Dying is the best way I know to do it. avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose you are already naked there is no reason not to follow your heart 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 destiny we all share no one has escaped from it and so it must be because death is most likely the best invention of life it is the agent of change of life clear the old to make way for the new right now the new is you, but someday, not very far away, you will gradually become old and be eliminated.

I'm sorry to be so dramatic, but it's very true that your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life, don't get caught up in the Dogma of living with the results of other people's thinking, don't let the noise of the opinions of others drown out your own inner voice and most importantly have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition they somehow already know what you really want to become everything else is secondary stay hungry stay foolish