This is an excerpt from the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
It’s well worth a read.
Stanford Report: 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 other’s 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.
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Hi Yaro,
Just a quick note to say hi. I’m not sure we’ve actually met but I read here reasonably regularly and enjoy your contributions at YNOT/YoungEntrepreneur.com. This commencement address from Steve Jobs looks like (as you say) it’s well worth the read. I’ll have to sit down and read it after my exam on Friday.
Also good to see you using WordPress!
Cheers,
S.
Thanks for another interesting post Yaro. This quote particularly resonated with me…
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again
That holds true for so many things in life, including business, IMO.