Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford University in a speech, now the speaker of the classic study. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, is engraved on a lot of people on the corner of the table (Special Note: Lu Xun classmates inscribed early Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish spirit and the students encourage each other. This story is about three series of life stories of how bit by bit, about love and loss stories and stories about death. Steve Jobs storytelling sincere emotions, their own experiences with their own experience, Several students in the middle of laughter and spontaneous applause.
heard many times before the big celebrity to make a report with the students, frequently speaking great truths of life, what life should be honest you, you have to strive to friends, bulabula ~ ~
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steve jobs talk at Stanford University three stories
I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college. And this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
Today I come to you from one of the world's best graduate schools in the graduation ceremony. I never graduated from college. tell the truth, this is my college graduation from the moment today. I want to tell three stories, talk about great truths, like the three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
The first story is about how life bit by bit in the serial together.
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?
where I German School (Reed college) to be six months but then stayed around. to drop out before me, a total suspension of eighteen months. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college 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: you want him? She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. This was the start in my life.
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a graduate student, young, unmarried mothers , she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly should be allowed to have college graduates who adopted me, so I was born, she was ready for me to be a lawyer and his wife. But the couple to the last moment go back on, they want to a girl. So on the waiting list, a couple, my parents, in the middle of the night, got a call, ask them The answer is months later, my parents promised that I would go to college, she relented.
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 parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. 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. 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 pretty scary at the 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 didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
Seventeen years later I go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford University, working-class parents of all my savings were spent on my college tuition. Six months later, I could not see What is the value of this book. At that time, I do not know what to do in this life, and no idea how college was going to help me, and I to read this book, my parents spent all their savings in this life, so I decided to drop out and trust to work out OK. The decision was pretty scary, but it now appears, it is the best I ever made one decision. When I dropped out I could stop I'm not interested required course, the time to listen to those I take it more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5c deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one 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:
It was not all romantic. I do not have dormitories, so I slept on the floor in friends home, I returned coke bottles for the five shillings back fees to buy food every Sunday night to go seven miles across town to the Hindu Hare Krishna temple good meal a week. I like the Hare Krishna temple of good material. following my curiosity and intuition, much of what I stumbled, and later appear to have become priceless. For 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 beautifully hand calligraphed. 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 san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
Reed College at that time perhaps the best calligraphy instruction. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on the drawer, was beautifully hand-written word. Because I had dropped out and did not take the normal classes, I decided to learn calligraphy. I learned a serif font and san serif, learn to change between different letter combinations, word spacing, a great place to learn letterpress printing. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can not capture, and I found it fascinating. < br> 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, itrs 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 when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
None of this had to learn these things in my life of any practical effect, but ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, I thought at the time to learn things, so these things are designed into the Mac, this is the first computer with beautiful typography computer. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac may be have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, if I did not do this year, probably the world's personal computers might not have all these things, and India does not appear in our see the beautiful words. Of course, when I was in college, it is impossible to advance these bits and pieces strung together, but this look back in ten years, it becomes very clear.
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 m your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing in the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when they leave you off the well-worn path. And it has made all the difference in my life.
Again, you can not pre-to connect the dots; only when the next review, you will understand how those bits and pieces strung together. So you have to trust what you feel now, how much will connect in the future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny Ye Hao, Ye Hao life, or karma. This approach has never let me down, let my life all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky m I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parentsr 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 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation m the Macintosh ma 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 hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and 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. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do. I was twenty years old, with Steve Wozniak in my parents garage when Apple started the business. We worked hard, and Apple Computer in the decade from a garage into an extension of two boys and employs more than four thousand, billion dollar market price of the company, and before that year released our finest creation - the wheat urn, and I had just turned thirty, years of life, and then I got fired. to how to make yourself fired from a company founded? Well, as Apple grew, I hired a management company I thought he was on a very talented guy, and he in the first year things went well. But we have different visions of the future, and finally had to separate ways, Board of Directors sided with him, I fried squid, I was out publicly . had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and I know what to do.
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 had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing 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 m 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. And so I decided to start over.
a few months, I really do not know what to do. I felt I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had lost the baton to me. I met with David Packard started HP's Intel-founder Bob Noyce, and tell them I'm sorry for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even want to leave the valley. But gradually, I found that I still loved what I did, at Apple had not the slightest change of events I love to do. I had been rejected, but I still love to do those things, 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. 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.
I did not see, but it seems to be getting fired from Apple was the best I've ever experienced something. successful heavy easy to be replaced all over again, everything is not so OK, let me free access to the most creative periods of my life.
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 worldrs 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, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, the company, another company named Pixar, but also talk with the wife later from the love. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, is now the world's most successful animation studio. Then, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, NeXT development of our technology into the core of Apple renaissance. I have a wonderful family.
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. 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And , like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep lo ...
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