If only you could see
the strength and the ability that I see
in you
you could change the world. Hey what's up
it's Rosa
and today we have Steve Jobs.
yes you heard it right Steve Jobs the
co-founder of
Apple and one of the most influential
entrepreneurs in the entire globe.
He has three life lessons and a bonus
tip
which will come in the end so stay tuned
and enjoy.
Today I want to tell you three stories
from my life
that's it no big deal just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the
dots
I dropped out of REED college after the
first six months
I had no idea what I wanted to do with
my life and no idea how college was
going to help me figure it out.
So i decided to drop out and trust that
it would all work
out okay. It was pretty scary at the time
but looking back
it was one of the best decisions i ever
made
REED college at that time offered
perhaps the best calligraphy instruction
in the country
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 varying the amount of space
between different letter combinations
about what makes great typography great.
It was beautiful, but none of this had even a
hope of any practical application
in my life. But ten years later
when we were designing the first
Macintosh computer it all came back to
me
and we designed it all into the Mac it
was the first computer with beautiful
typography.
If I had never dropped in on that single
course in college
the Mac would have never had multiple
typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts
and since windows just copied the Mac
it's likely that no personal computer
would have them.
If I had never dropped out I would have
never dropped in on 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 was very very clear looking
backwards ten years later.
So the belief that the dots will somehow
connect at the end,
will give you the strength to follow
your heart,
which might take you off the well-worn
path
but that will my friends
make all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss
I was lucky I found what I love to do
early in life Woz and I started apple in
my parents garage when I was 20. we
worked hard
and in 10 years apple had grown from
just the two of us in a garage
into a two billion dollar company with
over four thousand employees.
We just released our finest creation the
Macintosh a year earlier and I just
turned 30.
and then I got fired. How can you get
fired from a company you started!!
I really didn't know what to do for a
few months but something slowly began to
dawn on me.
I still loved what I did and so I
decided to start over
I didn't see it then but it turned out
that getting fired from apple was the
best thing that could have ever happened
to me.
During the next five years I started a
company named NEXT
another company named PIXAR and fell in
love with an amazing woman who would
become my wife.
PIXAR went on to create the world's
first computer animated feature film
Toy Story and is now the most successful
animation studio
in the world. In a remarkable turn of
events
APPLE bought NEXT and I returned to
APPLE and the technology we developed, at
NEXT is at the heart of APPLE's current
renaissance
and lorine and I have a wonderful family
together.
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.
Sometime life sometimes life's gonna 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 he says that the only thing that
kept him going,
even though he had a lot of hardships is
that,
he loved what he did. So find what you
love
only that can make you great.
So keep looking don't settle
My third story is about death
when I was 17 I read a quote that went
something
like if you live each day as if it was
your last
someday you'll most certainly be right.
It made an impression on me and since
then for the past 33 years
I've looked in the mirror every morning
and asked myself if today were the last
day of my life
would I want to do what I am about to do
today
and whenever the answer has been NO for
too many days in a row
I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be
dead soon is the most important tool
I've ever encountered to help me make
the big choices in life
because almost everything all external
expectations
all pride all fear of embarrassment or
failure
these things just fall away in the face
of death
leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die
is the best way I know to avoid the trap
of thinking
you have something to lose you are
already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your
heart.
We all are dying anyway so why live
somebody else's dream ,Why let someone
else's opinion,
drown our inner voice. And now
as you graduate to begin a new life, I wish
that for you
stay hungry stay foolish. Stay hungry
stay foolish. Never stop learning
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ciao.
