Important Life Lessons From Steve's Speech at Stanford That Will Change Your LIfe
Important Life Lessons From Steve's Speech at Stanford That Will Change Your Life
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| Steve, Lutful Huda |
Steven Paul Jobs born on Feb 24,1955 in San Francisco was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. His was with his parents who had to put him up for adoption at birth. He was raised in San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s. In addition, Steve Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects. Here are some important life lessons that I have drawn from his Stanford speech 2005:
Life Lessons
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| Lessons, Md. Lutful Huda |
2. Follow Your Heart, No Matter Where It Takes You. 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.
3. Give Your Best Effort In Everything You Do In Life. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. Quality is more important than quantity
4. Don’t Let Money Define Your Existence. Steve said, bottom line is, 'I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence'.
5. Don’t Ever Stop Dreaming Big. For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something'. So don't ever stop dreaming big.
6. Use Your Failures To Drive You Towards Success. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t give up. Never loose heart. Learn from your failures so that you can rectify those in future.
7. See The Silver Lining In Every Dark Cloud. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s changing agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
8. Believe In What You’re Doing So Much That Other’s Opinions Are Irrelevant. I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.
9. Don’t Give Up Your Faith In People. I am an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
10. Never Stop Being Curious. I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go, do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
11. And At The End Of The Day, Keep It All Into Perspective. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Today, Steve Jobs is remembered as an inspirational speaker and revolutionary innovator. Here are some of the best things he said over his four decades as one of the most important figures in the technology industry. Here I have drawn some more important lessons from his speech that was delivered at Stanford:
'The only way to do great work is to love what you do'.
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.
'You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down'
Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class. 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. If 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.
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.
'Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith'
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.[…] 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.
'Think Clean To Make It Simple'
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
'Remember That You Are Going To Die'
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
'Death Is The Single Best Invention Of Life.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because 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. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.
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Prepared by Major (R) Md. Lutful Huda, presently Chairman of TIDAC and Dreamwork Limited, Chief Editor of 'Crime and Judgement' Magazine
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