Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Steve Jobs Experience

I respect people who do their own thinking. One of them that belong to this class is Steve Jobs. He started the companies that given us Mac, iPod, Toy Story, The Incredibles...

He gave a speech to Stanford University students on 12 Jun 2005. I found it very interesting.


He shares 3 experiences with the students:

  1. Connecting the dots
  2. Love and lost
  3. Death

I found 3 parts of the speech interesting:

Sometimes life hits 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 your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only 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. Don't settle.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions 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.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

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