here you have the speech ....
Steve Jobs: 2005 Stanford
SPEECH BY STEVE JOBS, APPLE AND Pixart PRESIDENT OF THE CEREMONY OF INITIATION OF COURSE AT STANFORD, 2005
"I have the honor to be here with you today at your commencement one of the best universities in the world. I never graduated. In truth, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Nothing special. Just three stories ... .
The first story is about connecting the dots. I left Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So, why I left?. This story begins before I was born. My biological mother, who was a young, unwed college graduate student, decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set 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 the waiting list, got a call at midnight asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; Do you want? "" Of course "they said. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school, so he refused to sign the adoption papers. She only relented a few months later, when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. 17 years later I did go to college. But so giddy, I chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all the savings of my parents (working class) were being spent on my college tuition.
After six months of residence, he saw no reason to ax there. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, let alone how college was going to help me find out. And I was spending all the money my parents had throughout his life. So I decided to drop out and trust that things would work out. At the time I was scared, but looking back, was one of the best decisions I ever made. At the time I left, and I've never been to classes that did not interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It was idyllic. I had no room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, returned coke bottles for the 5 ¢ deposits to buy to eat, and walked over 10 km on Sunday night to eat well once 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. I will give you an example: at that time that Reed College offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphy. Because I had registered and had no classes, I decided to attend a calligraphy class to learn how to do. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the space between different letter combinations, about what makes a great typography great. It was subtly beautiful, historical, artistically, in a way that science can not capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had seemed to have a hope of any practical application in my future. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, I remembered my acquired knowledge of calligraphy. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had not followed that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced type.
And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have. If I had followed the normal program of Reed College, most likely would not have entered this calligraphy class, and most likely personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots when you were creating loosely organized, and looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very easy to see your connection to looking backwards ten years later. Again: can not connect the dots looking forward, you can only back. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it made a difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky, I learned early in life what he loved to do. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and ten years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a company valued at 2 billion dollars and 4,000 employees. Was just one year we had released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year before, and I had just turned 30. And 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 during 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 30 years was out of work. And very publicly. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
really do not know what to do for a few months. I felt that it had set aside the previous generation of entrepreneurs - who had dropped the baton at the time that passed me. I met with David Packard [Hewlett-Packard] and Bob Noyce [inventor of the integrated circuit, Intel], and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. It was a very public failure, and even thought about running away from the valley [Silicon Valley]. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The result of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. Had been rejected, but was still in love. So I decided to start again. I do not see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing I ever could have happened. He changed the weight of success 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. Over 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 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. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I had not been fired from Apple. I think it was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life gives you over the head with a brick. Do not lose faith. I am convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You have to find what you love. And this is true for your work as it is for your lovers. The work will 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 have not found it yet, keep looking. Do not settle. As with everything that has to do with the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years pass. So keep looking until you find it. Do not 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 were your last, someday you'll be right." I checked, and since then, for the past 33 years, every morning I looked in the mirror and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I do today?" If the answer was "No" for too many days in a row, I knew I needed a change. 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 - is away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remember you will 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. Almost a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor in the pancreas. Did not even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of incurable cancer and that my life expectancy is three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. Means try to tell your kids everything you'd tell the next ten years in a few months. It means to make de que todo queda atado y bien atado, para que sea tan fácil como sea posible para tu familia. Significa decir adiós.
Viví todo un día con ese diagnóstico. Luego, a última hora de la tarde, me hicieron una biopsia, metiéndome un endoscopio por la garganta, a través del estómago y el duodeno, pincharon el páncreas con una aguja para obtener algunas células del tumor. Yo estaba sedado, pero mi esposa, que estaba allí, me dijo que cuando vieron las células al microscopio los médicos comenzaron a llorar porque resultó ser una forma muy rara de cáncer pancreático que se puede curar con cirugía. Me operaron, y ahora estoy bien. Esto es lo más cerca que he estado de death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this with more certainty than when death was a useful concept, but purely intellectual: Nobody wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven do not want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And so it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. Is the agent of change in life. Remove the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long, gradually, you may go become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else's life. Do not be trapped by dogma - which is living with the thought of others. Do not let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you really want to be. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog [catalog of all the earth], one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and brought to life with his poetic touch. It was the late 60's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was 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 out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and when his time out a final issue. It was the mid 70's, and I was your age. On the cover of their final issue was a photograph of a country road early in the morning, the kind of road you might find auto stop doing if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. " It was his last message of farewell. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that. "
" Follow hungry. Follow crazy. "
Thank you all ....
(thus ended one of the speeches which I really marked in my life.)
In Brief 10 thoughts that we can give an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat this man has in his head:
1 .- "Innovation distinguishes a leader follower
2 .- "Be a yardstick of quality. There are people who are not accustomed to an environment where excellence is required "
3 .-" The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you have not found still searching. Do not settle. As with other matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found "
4 .-" You know that we are more than what we eat. Wear clothes that others make. Speak languages \u200b\u200bthat others have created. We use math that others have developed ... What I mean is that we are constantly acquiring things. It is a feeling ecstatic and wonderful to create something that changes the human experience and knowledge "
5 .-" There is a saying in Buddhism, 'Beginner's Mind. " It is wonderful to have beginner's mind "
6 .-" We think basically you watch television to turn off your brain, and you work on your computer when you connect your brain "
7 .-" I the only person I know who has lost 250 million dollars a year ... and it builds character. "
8 .- "I would trade all of my technology for an evening with Socrates
9 .- "We are here to make a mark in the universe. If not ... otherwise why would we be here? "
10 .-" Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else's life. Do not get caught in the dogmas (which is living with the results of the beliefs of others). Do not let the noise of others' opinions shut your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition. Somehow, you know what you really want to become. Everything else is secondary. "
what you think? MOTIVATION O SIMPLEMENTE SUERTEla motivacion que tiene como persona, lo hace ser un lider....
la motivacion es justamente lo que da ideas, crea proyectos, innova...
¿suerte? nuestra vida esta influida por la actitud y decisiones que tomamos, no siempre es facil tomar una actitud positiva frente a algo pero estoy seguro que siempre va a ser lo mejor.
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