Find What You Love
Steve Jobs is 55. 50 in this picture.
Oft characterized as a self-absorbed geek, leader of self-absorbed geeks, and a very strange duck. Commencement speech at Stanford, 2005 gives a few clues just how strange.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
"If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later."
My second story is about love and loss.
After being fired from Apple..
"The heaviness of being successful was replaced 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."
My third story is about death.
"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 - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."
Full story.. http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html