Summary of Commencement Speech of Steve at Stanford in 2005

Summary of Commencement Speech of Steve at Stanford in 2005

Md. Lutful Huda

1. Steve job’s commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 was probably one of the best, profound, philosophical, insightful and well worded speech. His words in this speech has enlightened the young blood to achieve great success in life. Here is a short review about his speech:

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Connecting the Dots

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2. Steve jobs believe that his decision to drop out from Reed college and learning calligraphy is what makes an Apple an all different technology from other. Right after he dropped out from Reed, he had no idea what he wanted to do. To just learn something fresh, he decided to learn calligraphy. He says that he never imagined at that point of time if this would help him so much. He believes that his calligraphy skills helped him design the world’s most beautiful computer Macintosh. The typography in the Macintosh simply differentiates between Apple and other computers. The life lesson he gives is that you can never connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward. Just believe that the dots will connect in the future.He believes that this trust, destiny, guts whatever we may call has never let him down and indeed made all the difference in his life.

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Love and Loss

3. Nobody can differ on this fact that you must find what’s your passion as soon as possible. Steve jobs said, he was lucky that he found his love at an early age of 20. This helped him in restricting his domain and completely focus on it. He started Apple at 20 in a garage with Steve Wozniak. Apple later turned into a billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. This was all because he found his love early in his life. But that’s not the end. How his love helped him in life comes next. At the age of 30, Steve Jobs was fired from his own company. The board of directors wanted him out of the company. But you cannot defeat the man who knows his passion. 

4. After getting fired, he launched two companies named NEXT and PIXAR. Pixar created the world’s first computer animated film named Toy Story, and today it is the most successful animation studio in the world. Then his company Next was purchased by Apple and Steve Jobs got a call back to his own company. Today Next is the heart of Apple’s renaissance. Had he not been fired from Apple, he would have never formed Next. Without Next, Apple would not have reached the peak. He says that life will hit you in your head with a brick, but you must keep doing what you love because that will pave your path to a bright future. Since work will acquire a large part of your life, it’s very important to find out what you love.

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Death

5. Death is immortal. It will come one day. Steve jobs were diagnosed with a tumor in his pancreas, which doctor’s believed was not curable at all. He was advised to prepared for

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the death. But later on when he got some other diagnosis, the doctor’s found out that it was a minor cancer which was completely curable with a surgery. After the surgery, he was hail and hearty. The lesson he wants to depict here is that your time on this planet is limited, so stop wasting it living someone else’s life. Stop believing in others opinions

because it destroys your mental confidence completely. The most important things in life are to follow your heart and intuition. Once you find it out, everything else in your life will become secondary.

STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH

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Written by Major (R) Md. Lutful Huda, presently Chairman of TIDAC and Dreamwork Limited, Chief Editor of 'Crime and Judgement' Magazine