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.
Hello,
Just found your blog through a random meandering through flickr photos and profiles and photos, etc…
Loved your photos and like the blog a lot. Just wanted to say hey. My flickr stream is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetpixel/
As for Jobs, I completely agree with him. Of course, the hard part is making all that work. All my life I’ve known that I’m meant to write and direct - and while I work for NASA doing just that - I still feel that I could be doing something else; something different and more “me.”
But who the heck am I?
Anyway, great blog. I’ll pop back in from time to time to see what’s new. I’ve made mine private a while ago, but if you ever wanna check it out, drop an email to jwp123@sbcglobal.net and I’ll send the invite.
Cheers!
Jim
Hi Jim. Thanks for stopping by and the link to your pics. I’d love to check out your blog so please send me an invite.
Amy,
Hey! I’d love to send you the invite, but I cannot seem to locate a link to your email. It’s probably obvious, but it’s about 1 AM and my eyes are blurry after a lonnnng day at work. Ugh.
If you drop me a line at my email above, I’ll get it out to you ASAP. (I’d send it by flickr mail, but that won’t work.)
Thanks for the interest!
Jim