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 Jobs said that, you have to find something you love.
You've got to find what you love, 'Jobs says
Jobs said, you have to find something you love.
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
This is Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios CEO Steve Jobs on June 12, 2005 Stanford University graduation ceremony in the above speech.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, 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.
I am honored to join you in graduation, Stanford University is the world's best universities. I never graduated from college. tell the truth, this is the life of my college graduation from the day. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. not a big deal, just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
The first story is about life connecting the dots.
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?
I read in the Reed College after six months dropped out, but after eighteen months?? I really quit, I often go to school. why did I drop it?
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: ? a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
story I start from when I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate. she decided to put me up for adoption She felt very strongly that I was adopted by college graduates. So when I was born, she has already done all the preparatory work, so I can be a lawyer and his wife adopted. but she did not expect, when I after birth, lawyer and his wife suddenly decided they wanted a girl. So my parents (they are still my watch list biological parents) suddenly received a phone call at midnight: baby boy, you want him? The adoption contract. only in a few months later, my parents promised her that I would someday go to college, that when she finally agreed.
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 interesting. < br> In the seventeen years old that year, I did go to college. but I chose a very stupid and you almost as expensive as Stanford, the school, my parents still in the blue-collar, they are almost all the savings were being spent my college tuition. In six months, I have not see the value in it. I do not know what I want to do in life, I do not know how the university can help me find the answer. But here, I almost ran out of my parents all my life savings. So I decided to drop out, I think this is the right decision. can not be denied, I was pretty scared, but looking back, it really is my life one of the best decisions. I dropped out at the moment, I can finally do not have to read that I could not get the slightest interest in the program. And then I can go to repair the course that seems a bit mean.
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:
But this is not all romantic. I lost my dorm room, so I can only floor in friends room to sleep, I returned coke bottles for 5 cents, to buy food on Sunday night, I need to walk the seven miles across town to the Hare Krishna temple (Note: under the Brooklyn in New York City), just to eat the food?? this week that the only good meal of rice. but I like it. I following my curiosity and intuition, experience a lot of things since then proved to be invaluable. Let me give you one 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 University at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction. in the campus every poster, every label on the drawer was beautifully hand calligraphed. because I had dropped out and did not have formal training, so I decided to go to participate in this course, to learn how to write beautiful calligraphy. I learned a san serif and serif fonts, I learned how to different letter combinations space between, and how can make the best typography. It is a science can not capture, and beautiful, artistically subtle, and I found it fascinating.
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, its 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.
had even things in my life, seems to have no practical application. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it is not to me. I learned that when I designed it all into Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped out, there will be opportunities to participate in this program I am interested in calligraphy, Mac would not have so many rich fonts, and enjoyable font spacing. so that no personal computer would have just copied the. Of course, when I was in college, but also impossible to former connecting the dots, but when I look back all these years very, very suddenly see the light of the.
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.
Again, you can not in looking forward will connect the dots; you can only review time will be connecting the dots. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect your future together. You have to trust in something: your gut purpose, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down (let me down), just let me the difference in the lives of more.
My second story is about love and loss.
my first Two story is about love and loss.
I was lucky? I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents 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 - the Macintosh - a 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 because I found early on the things I loved. Woz and I have two-year-old in my parents garage when opened inside Apple. We worked hard ten years later, the company's poor wretch since the development of the two garage to over four thousand employees, more than two billion worth of large companies. In the ninth year the company established, we have just released the best products, that is Macintosh. I had just turned three years old. In that year, I got fired. you how you may be fired from a company created it? ah, as Apple grew, we hired a very talented guy and I manage the company together, in the initial years, the company run well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When the quarrel bitterly when Board of Directors sided with him on the other side. So at ten years old, I was out. in so many people very publicly out. In volunteers, all of my life was gone, which was devastating.
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? 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.
in the first few months, I really do not know what to do. I used to entrepreneurial passion to the lost, I felt I had let the business people are frustrated. I met David Pack, and Bob Boyce, and tried to apologize. I make things worse from pillar to post. but I slowly began to dawn, I still loved what I did. Apple of events had not changed that one bit does not. I had been rejected, but I still love it. so I decided to scratch again.
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 turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best ever happened to me to do. because As a blissful feeling of being successful as an entrepreneur instead of the relaxed feeling of the re: on less sure about everything. It makes me feel so free, into my life the most creative periods.
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 worlds 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 retuned 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.
in the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and then later became my wife and an amazing woman who would. Pixar to create the world's first A computer animated feature film?? company. We NeXT technology in the development of Apple's current renaissance played a key role. I have, and Laurence with 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 gre ...