Steve Jobs, CEO and Founder of Apple and Pixar, delivering a speech to 2005 graduates at Stanford University.
This speech is only 15 minutes long - if you do anything today, please watch this - makes your think. For me, Steve articulated how I'm feeling right now.
In particular, he talks about connecting the dots...
- You can't connect the dots as you go along looking forward. It is only very clear looking back.
- So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future.
- You have to trust in something.. gut, karma, God, destiny.
- Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.
Also, he speaks about finding what you love to do. To ask yourself everyday, "if this was the last day of my life, would I do what I'm about to do?" - knowing that if you answer 'no' too many days in a row, you need to change what you're doing. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition and everything else will become secondary.
You've got to find what you love. Your work fills a large part of your life, so you've got to love what you do. You've got to keep looking for what you love doing.
Keep looking. Don't settle.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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