Stay foolish.PLEASE NOTE: This page contains amazon affiliate links. The Jobs speech has been inspiring people for a decade and will continue to do so, convincing many more people to “Stay hungry. “This gave me the courage to follow my heart,” he said.Ī great speech can give people courage they didn’t know they had. I immediately recognized it as the printed text of the Jobs commencement speech.
He pulled a paper from his bag and passed it across the table. He was making a very high salary and I asked him where he had found the courage to quit. Stay Foolish.”Ī few years ago I met an entrepreneur who had given up a lucrative job to pursue an idea for a tech company. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Steve Jobs saves his call to attention for the end of the speech: "Stay Hungry. Once they’re connected to a speaker, an audience is more likely to follow the speaker’s advice or buy in to their idea. Stories help transport listeners to another world, allowing them to see to themselves in the speaker’s shoes. Stories of triumph over struggle resonate with audiences because humans are hard-wired to empathize with one another, and stories are the vehicles through which we share these common bonds. Each of the three vignettes from Jobs life involve struggle or sacrifice. The speech emphasized triumph over adversity. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” “Remembering that are you going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap thinking you have something to lose. Jobs’ third and final story was about death. “Getting fired was the best thing that could ever happened to me…I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. He recalled falling in love with computers at an early age, meeting Steve “Woz” Wozniak, building Apple, and losing Apple after a falling out with the Board of Directors. Jobs’ second story was about love and loss.
You have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future.” “It was the first computer with beautiful typography…You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. Ten years later he incorporated what he had learned into the design of the Macintosh. He talked to the graduates about dropping out of Reed College so he could “drop in” to the courses he wanted to take, like calligraphy, a course that no practical application to his life. Jobs’ first story was about connecting the dots. “Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Readers of this column know that I’m a fan of the ‘rule of three.’ Dividing a message into three parts or stories is a simple, memorable, and effective technique to structure a message. Jobs wrapped three lessons in three stories. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it,” Jobs said. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. “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. The speech had a theme that resonates with just about everyone who seeks meaning in their lives and their career: Do what you love. Fifteen minutes is enough time to spark a movement. On a TED stage, Sheryl Sandberg took 15 minutes to deliver a moving and powerful speech that launched the movement Lean In. Kennedy inspired a nation in 15 minutes and Martin Luther King shared a vision of racial equality in 17 minutes. A lot of powerful messages have been delivered in under 18 minutes. As the TED conference has learned in its 30-year history, 15 to 18 minutes is an ideal length of time to deliver a substantive message without putting an audience to sleep. The speech lasted for just fifteen minutes.
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