Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer and inventor. He was co-founder and the CEO of the Apple Inc. Through his inventions, he was widely recognized as the pioneer of the personal computers. His tremendous contributions in the field of consumer electronics and computers transformed various industries such as computers, mobile phones and music. Jobs, as he stated in his speech, dropped out college after his first six months but stayed in college for eighteen more months. Jobs had been invited to Stanford University to give a commencement speech, which he delivered in a simple, humorous yet insightful way. Jobs’ speech comprised of three stories; the first story was about connecting the dots, the second story was about love and loss, while the third story was about death.
In his first story, Jobs begun by giving an account of his life. At the age of seventeen, he joined Reed College but his stay lasted for only six months before he dropped out of college. His journey to college however, had started even before he was born. His mother, who was a college graduate, had decided to put him up for adoption even before he was born. His mother however, strongly felt that he should be adopted by college graduate in the hope that they will be aware on the importance of education. The adoption was all set but unfortunately, when he was born, his parents to be suddenly decided that they wanted a girl. That is how he finally ended up with undergraduate parents though they promised to educate him up to college level.
When he was of age, Jobs naively chose Reeds College, which was quite expensive. He soon realized that his parents’ life savings were quickly exhausting in his college fees for no apparent reason for...
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People’s time on earth is limited thus it should not be wasted trying to live someone else’s life nor should it trapped by dogma because of other people’s thinking. One should not let the noise of others to distract their inner voice. The courage to follow one’s heart and intuition is important; somehow, heart and intuition know what the individual will become. His final quote, ‘Stay hungry. Stay foolish,’ drove the point home. Life is individualistic and full of opportunities. It is important for people to love what they do for them to achieve success. They do not have to feel forced or to do it just because it is a duty. By loving what they do, they will not feel that they have to do it, but instead they will want to do it; attitude is the key to success. Through his motivating speech, Jobs clearly mapped out the path to success.
These concepts have been in the minds of many individuals since childhood. Jobs implements these lessons due to the fact that they will eventually face them in the future. Jobs view on the value of life assist individuals on what they are going to face later on. He breaks down his speech into three sections, and in his first section “Connecting the dots”, he talks about connecting the dots of life, because everything that happens in life is a blueprint that will lead us to our success in the future. Jobs states that, “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards”. His assertion is true because he is saying how you have to trust that in the future the dots will connect in your life. What you do now will determine what you are going to do in the future, thus the reason he says “you’ve got to do what you love” and follow your passion. Jobs also say that you can not have your future already planned out. You have to let the dots connect as you
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Steve Jobs delivered and extremely informative commencement speech at Stanford in 2005. He presented three very effective points about what he went through in life. Steve Jobs first talks about connecting the dots. He says something like “ you can't connecting dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards” with that quote one can understand that you have to trust that something is going to happen in life and hope for the best. Then he goes on and talks about love and lost he lets the graduates know that sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick,Don't lose faith. On this quote he lets the graduates of Stanford know that life is going to be hard not everything in going to come easy in life. We are going to make mistakes but we need to understand that we can Lear from them. Lastly,Steve Jobs believes that
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He strongly believes that self-motivation is the key to success for any individual and therefore advocates that every employee invest time in finding what makes them happy and to focus more on making a difference and less on running towards titles and defined roles.
...ed the Apple Ipod. After the Ipod came many other groundbreaking devices such as, the Ipod Shuffle or the MacBook Pro, and in 2007 the Iphone. Jobs is the father of all these devices. The devices most people use in their daily life. It was a very unfortunate event when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. Then in 2009 they thought the cancer was gone after Jobs had a liver transplant. The doctors were far from correct, the cancer took two months after he resigned from Apple in 2011. October 5, 2011 was a very sad and somber day for the workers at Apple. They got the news and were heartbroken that their leader, mentor, and friend had passed away at the age of 56.