Steve Jobs  Stanford University Commencement Speech Highlights

“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.” Steve Jobs

Here are the highlights of Steve Jobs Commencement Speech

Connect the dots – You can only connect the dots of the past not of the future. For that reason, we must have trust in our intuition that for everything we do the dots will connect in our future in a meaningful way. Trust that it’ll all work out okay.

Do what you love and if you haven’t found it keep searching. This is important. Refer to the above quote.

“Live like each day is your last and some day you will certainly be right.”

When we are dead it’s too late, so go after it. Follow your heart and do what you love, what you are fearful of and what you must. Ask yourself, “Is what I plan to do today truly how I would wish to live my life?” If you wake up too many days in a row and the answer to the above question is NO we must act to make some change – no matter how small that change may be.

No one desires death. It will come. Don’t rely on other opinions and dogma – pursue your intuition – somehow it knows. “Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

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