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In his speech, Steve Jobs spoke frankly about his opinions on entrepreneurship, work, and life. He reflected on what kept him going through challenging times and stressed on the importance of “finding something you love” and “following your own inner voice.”

Had I read it sooner, it would have made a lot of things easier. It relayed some few but important, inspiring and life-changing points in life. They are just simple things and yet we often neglect them.

• You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. You’ve got to find what you love. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

He ended his speech with these words, Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish!. Perhaps he wanted to leave a challenge to millions and millions of aspiring individuals that we all have the right to dream “crazy dreams” for who knows what we’ll achieved at the end of the day. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

This is the video and text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.

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