Our Facilitator, instructed us to read the commencement of Steve jobs, and make a reflection about the lesson we have learned out of it. But before that, who is Steve Jobs
-Steven Jobs, was born in 1955, American computer executive, who confounded Apple Computer, one of the first manufacturers of personal computers. Jobs went to high school in Los Altos, California, and attended lectures at Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto after school. He attracted the attention of the company president and was hired as a summer employee. He worked there with Stephen Wozniak, an electronics inventor. In 1972 Jobs graduated from high school and entered Reed College, but he dropped out after one semester. He joined Atari in 1974 as a designer of video games.
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During the 2005 graduation ceremony of one of the prestigious and finest universities in United States named Stanford University, invited Steve Jobs, the CEO and the founder of Apple Computers to be their commencement speaker.
I was really inspired after hearing his outstanding commencement. I realize that life is not always sweet. And that the bitter road I have right now is just spices that add flavors to my upcoming success. Through his speech I was inspired to go through.
In his speech, Steve cited three important personal stories in which he had learned essential things that have led him to his success and failures. The first story he recounts is about connecting the dots.
Connecting the Dots.
Lesson: Everything happens for a reason and purpose.
Steve Jobs was perfectly right, when he says that you cannot connect the dots by looking forward; you can only connect it by looking backwards. Life is unpredictable. We can’t tell what tomorrow will bring. There is no assurance of good future, for we cannot see what will be the future. There are things we tend to overlook as we go over our lives. Things that we thought are of little or no relevance at all. Things, which are just a waste of time. But, as time goes by, we were caught off guard by the things we previously thought that those things was irrelevant to us.
Just like Steve Jobs life. Her biological mother decided to put him up for adoption and he should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for him. But it was not happened. He was adopted by two persons who never graduated college and high school. But despite of that, he was able to study in Reed College. He was not a prince during his school days. Months later, He couldn’t clearly see the value in studying, and so he drop out. He joined a calligraphy class and he found it fascinating.
He didn’t know that the choice of having a calligraphy class made sense at all. Until they design the first Macintosh computer. If he had never dropped out, he would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
It all came back to him, that every decisions he have made, whether it is big or small, it all made sense. And he only figures it out, when he was already in success. He figures it out through connecting the choice he has made in yesterday. The dots we are talking here are the choice and the things happen in the past. The lesson we have here is trust, your self in making decisions. Yes, we can never see the future, but we are the one makes our future. Follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
The Second story Steve Jobs cited is about love and loss.
Love and loss.
Lesson: Picking-up of oneself in every fall.
Life is not always sweet. There are chances of falling down, and loosing of what we love. For everything in this world is not permanent. Things may be change with just a blink of an eye. We should stand up and start again each time we fall and we met a brick wall. The world will never stop revolving every time you fail. Do not let your failures and your loose are the hindrance of doing what you love. You are not the only one who experienced failures. The thing there is you, stand and move on. And those mistakes you have committed will be your lessons and guide in going through. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Continue in doing what you love. Hungry of looking forward for progress after failures. Do not settle in what just you have. Keep looking, until you realize the thing that would fit in that empty space, until you are contented. 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, and 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. Don't settle." - Steve Jobs
The third story is about Death.
Lesson: Live life to the fullest.
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” This quotation made an impression to Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in the pancreas. The doctor already told him to go home and settle everything, and he is not a fool to know what the doctor really wanted him to do. It means to try and tell his kids everything he thought he’d have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for his family. It means to say his goodbyes. “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 e caped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life”- Steve Jobs Steve make me realize, that we should do the things we love to do. Our life is only limited. No one knows when and where this tremendous situation happens .We should make our life valuable not only for the sake of our own, bur for others too. So live each day as your last day, make each day useful to fulfill things, make each day remarkable, inspirable and memorable. And so when death comes along, You wont have any regret, because you have live your life to the fullest.
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