A wonderfully inspiring commencement speech by Steve Jobs recounting three simple yet powerful stories from his life. Here’s a few nuggets that really seemed to resonate with me.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect the dots looking back. You have to trust that the dots will connect in the future.
You’ve got to find what you love and that is a true for 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. And don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking and don’t settle.
Now, if only he would do something about recycling those iPods.
Apparently Apple Inc. has some of the most outdated environmental policies around which means that their