LIFE CHANGING MOTIVATION SPEECH BY STEVE JOBS.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life that's it.no big deal just three stories- steve jobs

LIFE-CHANGING MOTIVATION SPEECH BY STEVE JOBS.

the first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. so why did I drop out? it started before I was born. my biological mother was a young un graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. she felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates. so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. so my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking"we have an unexpected baby boy, do you want him ?" they said " of course. my biological mother; later found that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. she refused to sign the final adoption paper she only related a few months later when my parent promised that I would go to college. this was the start of my life.

 and 17 years later I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford and all of my working-class parent's savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months, I could not see the value in it. I had no idea what wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. and here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.so I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. it was very scary at that time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. the minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that did not interest me. and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. it was not all romantic, I did not have it from the room. so slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I return a coke bottle for the 5 cents deposited to buy food. and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get a good meal a week at the hare Krishna temple I loved it. and much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

let me give you one example: reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus, every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautiful hand-calligraphed. because I had dropped out and did not have to take the normal classes. I decided to take calligraphy classes to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, and about varying the amount of space. between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, and artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.

but 10 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 is likely that no personal computer would have them if I had never dropped out. I would have never dropped in on this 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 to when I was in college. but it was very very clear looking backward ten years later. again, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward.

 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 .believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart. even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.

my second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life Woz and I started Apple in my parent's 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 $2 billion company with over 4ooo employees, we had just released our finest creation the macintosh. a year earlier and I had just turned 30. and then I got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started? well, as Apple grew we tried someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me. for the first year or so things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him so at 30 I was out what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down-that I ad dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and I tried to apologize for sewing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the valley.

but something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. the turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit I had been rejected but I was still in love.so I decided to start over I did not see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. during the next five years, I started a company, maned next, another company name 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 brought next. I returned to apple and the technology we develop next is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I am 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 hits you in the head with a brick don't lose faith. I am convinced that the only things that kept me going were that I loved what I did. you have 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 have not found it yet, keep looking. as with all matters of the heart, you will know when you find it and like any great relationship. it is just better and better as the years roll on 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 will most certainly be right". it made an impression on me and since then for the past 33 years. I have 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 will be dead soon is the most important tool I have ever encountered to help me make the big choice 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, and 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 for about it a year ago. I was diagnosed with cancer I had a scan at 7.30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was the doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable. and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.

my doctor advised me o go home and get my affairs in order, which is the doctor's code for preparing to die. it means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. it means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. its means to say your goodbyes I live with that diagnosis all day. later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat. through my stomach and into my intestine, put a needle into my pancreas, and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife who was there told me that when they viewed the cell under a microscope. the doctor started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and thankfully I am fine now .this was the closest I have been to facing death.

I hope it is the closest I get for a few more decades having lived through it. I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept.no one wants to die even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. yet death is the destination we all are, 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 is the life-change agent. it clears out the old to make way for the new right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now. you will gradually become the old and be clear away.

sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else life, don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the result of other people thinking. don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner. and most importantly. have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. everything else is secondary, when I was young, there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog. which was one of the bibles of my generation, it was created by a fellow named steward brand not far from here.in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. this was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing. so it was all made with typewriters scissors, and polaroid cameras it was sort of like Google in paperback form.35 years before Google came along, it was idealistic, overflowing with neat to had run it is course, they put out a final issue and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalog, and then when it was mid -the 1970s and I was your age. on the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road the kind you might find yourself, hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous, beneath it was the words.

"STAY HUNGRY" "STAY FOOLISH"-it was their farewell message as they signed off, stay hungry, stays foolish. and I have always wished that for myself and now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you.

                             " stay hungry, stay foolish " 

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