Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios encourages us to pursue our dreams and opportunities by sharing with us his life story.
In this video, he shared 3 stories and the key learning points.
Connecting the Dots
Steve was dropped out of college as he was not sure what he interested in. Since he was a drop-out, he only took those courses that he is interested in and one of the courses was calligraphy and typography was part of the course. Ten years later when he was designing the first Macintosh computer, he applied what he learnt for typography and thus he was the first person who introduced typography in personal computer.
Lesson: You can only connect the dots backward, not forward. Follow your heart and the dots will connect you to your future.
Love and Lost
Steve was the co-founder of Apple Computer and Apple grew steadily to a $2 billion business. But Apple’s board of directors fired him due to the conflict of opinions. To Steve, he saw his termination as a blessing as it freed him and allowed his creativity to flow. He formed two companies – NeXT and Pixar Animation Studios. Apple Computer bought NeXT and Steve went back to Apple Computer. Pixar Animation Studios grew very successfully after its first animation movie "Toy Story"
Lesson: Life will hit you with a brick but do not lose faith. You got to find what you love. Only do what you believe is good work. Keep looking, do not settle. It will get better and better.
In this video, he shared 3 stories and the key learning points.
Connecting the Dots
Steve was dropped out of college as he was not sure what he interested in. Since he was a drop-out, he only took those courses that he is interested in and one of the courses was calligraphy and typography was part of the course. Ten years later when he was designing the first Macintosh computer, he applied what he learnt for typography and thus he was the first person who introduced typography in personal computer.
Lesson: You can only connect the dots backward, not forward. Follow your heart and the dots will connect you to your future.
Love and Lost
Steve was the co-founder of Apple Computer and Apple grew steadily to a $2 billion business. But Apple’s board of directors fired him due to the conflict of opinions. To Steve, he saw his termination as a blessing as it freed him and allowed his creativity to flow. He formed two companies – NeXT and Pixar Animation Studios. Apple Computer bought NeXT and Steve went back to Apple Computer. Pixar Animation Studios grew very successfully after its first animation movie "Toy Story"
Lesson: Life will hit you with a brick but do not lose faith. You got to find what you love. Only do what you believe is good work. Keep looking, do not settle. It will get better and better.
Death
Almost everything will fall away in the face of death. Remember that since you are going to die, you will not fear that you have something to lose. Death is a destination we all share. Your time is limited and don’t waste your time away. Follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want, other things else are only secondary.
Lesson: “If today is the last day of your life, will you want to do what you are about to do today?” “Stay hungry, Stay foolish.”
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