Steve Jobs- Stanford Commencement Speech
It has been nine years since Steve Jobs gave his famous Stanford Commencement speech but the message of “Stay hungry, stay foolish” is still being talked about today. During the speech he uses a conversational style of speaking to tell three stories on love, life, discovery and death. Jobs used his personal experiences to connect with the audience, sharing several anecdotes from his past to convince the crowd that failure and rejection were not always bad things. By describing his life events, he made himself more relatable to the audience and was successful at delivering his message.
Despite the fact that Jobs is at a university commencement, he tells the audience “I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation” making the students laugh and delivering his “attention getter”. This set the laid back mood for the speech and sets the audience at ease. It also plays
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Cancer is something that touches most people at least in some way, so using his personal experience with it allowed him to connect with the audience on a more personal level. He is successful in creating the atmosphere that life is precious and not to be wasted. He explains “Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
The most effective quality of the speech that makes it connective and rhetorically sound is how he structured it. Jobs uses something similar to the “Klubeck Three Step” method by introducing three main points. The follow through of this allows him to make his points and connect his statements in an organized and logical manner. This format allows him to talk about different points while still connecting them to his overall point of “Stay hungry, stay foolish” or “find what you love to
To regard the importance of the bigger picture, he maintains parallel structure and utilizes the repetition of words in the body of the speech. “The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life” occurs when one seizes the day—when one finds the joys in life by realizing “you are not special”. The pauses and short sentences also adds to the conversational aspect and pace of the commencement piece. To continue, he notes how in this moment of time, every single one of them is dressed “exactly the same” and their diplomas are “exactly the same”. The unification of these prospective seniors further augments the message of settling. McCullogh further critiques the phrases that defy logic. High school students have perceived that “good is no longer good enough, where a B is the new C”. The goal into doing one’s best has been shaped into doing the capabilities of another, in which McCullogh responds metaphorically to only focus on the betterment of the self: “climb [the mountain] so you can see the world, not so the world can see you”. All of these seniors have fallen into the preconceived mindset of superiority, unifying them together but it is their personal capabilities that distinguishes one from another, successes from failures. The support and inspiration he is aiming for is clearly portrayed in proposing to the students to, “[d]ream big. Work hard. Think for yourself”. He inspires them to experience life instead of accomplish
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