Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks—including death itself?
This Speech taught me some of the greatest lessons about life. When I heard it for the first time I had actually started connecting myself to each and every incident and stories that he narrated. It was a complete Mind opener for me.
It is most inspiring and thought-provoking speeches that I have ever read or listened.
It has full of a lot of wonderful stories, including about his first bout with cancer. And the speech ended with some words Jobs saw on the back of “The Whole Earth Catalogue” when he was young, which impacted him greatly. They were:
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
It also has one of the most wonderful words to help someone to find his ambition, his work or his goals. And the words were
So let’s slow things down and get some much-needed perspective what this speech surely has.
Here’s a video of the Jobs speech, as well as some of the things I learnt from it after the jump.
Five of the life lessons from Steve Jobs speech that I found interesting were….
- Believe in your Destiny(connecting the Dots)
We need to believe in our destiny. The best approach would be to always think positive. Whatever happens in your life always think that it is for the good. Even if you fail in something or commit a mistake try to find the learning out of it and implement it in your life. The only real mistake is the one from which we don't learn anything. So always learn from your mistakes."......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.
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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Love what you do…(Keep Looking... . , Don't Settle)
“…sometimes life is going to 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 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, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know it when you find it. And like any great relationship it just get’s better and better, as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.”
You cannot underestimate the power of passion in life and in successful leadership. All successful people are passionate about what they do. I have yet to find a successful leader that does not love what they are doing with their life. Do you love what you do? Is it a passion? Just think about this for 2 minutes.
- Live each day like it’s your last…
“When I was seventeen 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 thirty three 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?’ Whenever the answer has been ‘NO’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
The question “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” is a good way to test if we are doing what really matters… How would you answer this question?
- Live your own LIFE
“…Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life… Don’t let the noise of others’ 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. Everything else is secondary."
We should live our own life, see our own dreams and construct your own path to achieve it. We cannot be successful in something because someone was successful there because skills an only be learnt it never can be copied. So find your own skills, find whats unique in you and live up to your dreams.
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