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| A nice motivational speech of Steve Jobs |
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Below is the transcript:
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.
The first story is about 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?
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:
"We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want
him?" They said: "Of course." My biological
mother later found out that my mother had
never graduated from college and that my
father had never graduated from high school.
She refused to sign the final adoption
papers. She only relented a few months later
when my parents promised that I would someday
go to college.
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.
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 5¢
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:
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.
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.
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.
My second 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 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.
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.
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 returned 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.
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 great
relationship, it just gets better and better
as the years roll on. So keep looking until
you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went
something like: "If you live each day as if
it was your last, someday you'll most
certainly be right." It made an impression on
me, and since then, 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.
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.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.
I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it
clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I
didn't even know what a pancreas was. The
doctors told me this was almost certainly a
type of cancer that is incurable, and that I
should expect to live no longer than three to
six months. My doctor advised me to go home
and get my affairs in order, which is
doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to
try to tell your kids everything you thought
you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in
just a few months. It means to make sure
everything is buttoned up so that it will be
as easy as possible for your family. It means
to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later
that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck
an endoscope down my throat, through my
stomach and into my intestines, put a needle
into my pancreas and got a few cells from the
tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was
there, told me that when they viewed the
cells under a microscope the doctors started
crying because it turned out to be a very
rare form of pancreatic cancer that is
curable with surgery. I had the surgery and
I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing
death, and I hope its the closest I get for a
few more decades. Having lived through it, I
can now say this to you with a bit more
certainty than when death was a useful but
purely intellectual concept:
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.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it
living someone else's life. Don't be trapped
by dogma — which is living with the results
of other people's thinking. Don't let the
noise of others' opinions drown out your own
inner voice. And most important, have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want
to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing
publication called The Whole Earth Catalog,
which was one of the bibles of my generation.
It was created by a fellow named Stewart
Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he
brought it to life with his poetic touch.
This was in the late 1960's, before personal
computers and desktop publishing, so it was
all made with typewriters, scissors, and
polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google
in paperback form, 35 years before Google
came along: it was idealistic, and
overflowing with neat tools and great
notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues
of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it
had run its course, they put out a final
issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your
age. On the back cover of their final issue
was a photograph of an early morning country
road, the kind you might find yourself
hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.
Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay
Foolish." It was their farewell message as
they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
And I have always wished that for myself. And
now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish
that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
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| LSU FOOTBALL 2007: PRE-VT MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO |
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2007 LSU Football Pre-Virginia Tech
Motivational Video.
This is NOT an official video, nor is it
produced by or affiliated with LSU or its
Athletic Department. If anyone finds this
video offensive, I apologize. This is just a
video about the "game".
In no way does this video demonstrate any ill
feelings held by me or LSU's fans towards
Virginia Tech, their student body, or their
fans. The LSU community sympathizes with the
Hokies and will honor them in any way
possible on game day.
May the best team win.
GEAUX TIGERS! GEAUX HOKIES!
Les Miles Bo Pelini Gary Crowton
84 Rahim Alem DE
91 Charles Alexander DT
64 Matt Allen OL
33 Tyson Andrus DB
39 Caleb Angelle DE
73 Will Arnold OG
75 Kentravis Aubrey DL
38 Chad Baniecki FB
96 Joseph Barksdale DT
48 Darry Beckwith LB
88 DeAngelo Benton WR
58 Jeremy Benton LB
70 Ciron Black OT
94 Will Blackwell DE
14 Ron Brooks R/DB
22 Alley Broussard RB
14 Jeremy Bunting QB
2 Demetrius Byrd WR
13 Donnie Chaucer RB
17 Shomari Clemons S
81 Mit Cole TE
24 Harry Coleman S
41 Jordon Corbin TE
98 Sidell Corley DE
39 Andrew Crutchfield PK/P
54 Jacob Cutrera LB
6 Colt David PK
55 Andrew Decker OL
82 Richard Dickson TE
10 Ricky Dixon WR
72 Glenn Dorsey DT
9 Early Doucet WR
57 Richard Dugas C
68 Josh Dworaczyk OL
4 Jai Eugene CB
99 Marlon Favorite DT
36 Patrick Fisher P
15 Matt Flynn QB
52 Ace Foyil LB
23 Stefoin Francois DB
39 Sean Gaudet PK
17 Josh Graham PK
3 Orlando Gunn RB
29 Chris Hawkins DB
53 T-Bob Hebert OL
74 Brett Helms C
18 Jacob Hester FB
7 Ali Highsmith LB
65 Lyle Hitt OG
8 Trindon Holliday WR
66 Max Holmes OL
21 Chevis Jackson CB
28 R.J. Jackson RB
93 Tyson Jackson DE
30 Josh Jasper PK/P
90 Ricky Jean-Francois DE
58 Mick Jeanise OL
79 Herman Johnson OG
45 Quinn Johnson FB
47 Tremaine Johnson DE
3 Chad Jones S
76 Jarvis Jones OL
25 Phelon Jones DB
40 Shawn Jordan FB
83 Mitch Joseph TE
42 Steven Korte FB
1 Brandon LaFell WR
12 Quentin LeDay WR
12 Jarrett Lee QB
95 Lazarius Levingston DE
46 J.D. Lott TE
59 Cole Louviere OL
30 Joe Maltempi DB
27 August Mangin WR
77 Ernest McCoy OL
44 Danny McCray S
23 Josh McManus WR
50 Micah Metrailer LB
63 Ryan Miller C
86 Chris Mitchell WR
87 Jared Mitchell WR
26 Richard Murphy RB
92 Drake Nevis DL
51 Jacob O'Hair SNP
57 Derrick Odom LB
11 Ryan Perrilloux QB
49 Kirston Pittman DE
1 Chris Reed PK
34 Stevan Ridley LB
56 Perry Riley LB
85 Alex Russian TE
35 Luke Sanders LB
32 Charles Scott RB
11 Kelvin Sheppard LB
60 Steven Singleton OL
62 Robert Smith OL
67 Mark Snyder OL
16 Craig Steltz S
71 Carnell Stewart OT
6 Joey Stutson RB
27 Curtis Taylor S
22 Renaldo Thompson DB
80 Terrance Toliver WR
13 Jimmy Welker QB
31 John Williams CB
5 Keiland Williams RB
97 Al Woods DT
69 Anthony Zehyoue DE
19 Jonathan Zenon CB
89 Keith Zinger TE
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