Inspired
I've poured through this several times over the last few weeks. It's an absolute gem.
Steve Job's 2005 Commencement Speech at Stanford University
This particular quote really speaks to me:
Looking at my own life, I am able to see so perfectly what he is saying. Too often I'd been trying to "set up" a situation, so to speak, and rarely if ever does that work. Instead, now I just try to really live. To not turn down that last conversation of the night, to check out a random event just for the hell of it, to really push my comfort zone and most of all just remember that I only live once.
Steve Job's 2005 Commencement Speech at Stanford University
This particular quote really speaks to me:
"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."
Looking at my own life, I am able to see so perfectly what he is saying. Too often I'd been trying to "set up" a situation, so to speak, and rarely if ever does that work. Instead, now I just try to really live. To not turn down that last conversation of the night, to check out a random event just for the hell of it, to really push my comfort zone and most of all just remember that I only live once.
posted by ky at
11:39 PM
7 Comments:
Man, if only my brother had graduated a year earlier, I could have heard this speech, it's amazing! Instead I got to listen to Tom Brokaw.
I like this line: And yet death is the destination we all share. 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 Life's change agent.
the youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
I agree that is a great one as well. Thanks for the youtube link, I hadn't even thought of that.
I've seen that quote before, love it :)
If you see the speech in video, it's pretty bad. Jobs repeats himself, and looks up once. BORING.
Check the link for Bill Gate's speech at Harvard. Now that's a great speech.
Only a birthday weekend could precede such a weak statement.
Bruni,
Do you think if Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John read the Gospels it would be extremely entertaining? I'm interested in his content, which is top-notch. I'll agree, his presentation wasn't the best I've ever seen. I'll leave it to you to one up him someday.
I too am going to go against these nay-sayers and say I loved it and articulates perfectly what I've been trying to say to myself.
Good post sir.
Now, what dots might be connected if you go to the Soco RoKS? Prove to yourself that this is really how you live your life.
Call and commit. You know the number.
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