Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Commencement Address by Steve Jobs at Standford University

I read Steve's commencement and found it really interesting. I think he really trusted himself throught his life that is what he did, and how he did. He did what he said that one should follow his or her heart. He followed his heart throught his life. I really like his this paragraph. I don't want to summarize it because it will lose it's heart (central idea). Therefore, I am pasting it from the site http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html. Here is that paragrapph which really touched me.
"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."

I was really shocked when I read that he had cancer. Fortunately, some pancreas cancer is curable and he had one of those cancer.

I would say that he has great positive attitude towards everything that he does.

1 comment:

Al said...

I thought this was great also. Remind me in class to frame this part in terms of knowledge nodes and relationships-
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