[Music]
if I had never dropped out I would have
never dropped in on that calligraphy
class and personal computers might not
have the wonderful typography that they
do of course it was impossible to
connect the dots looking forward when I
was in college but it was very very
clear looking backwards ten years later
again 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 because believing that the dots
will connect down the road will give you
the confidence to follow your heart even
when it leads you off the well-worn path
and that will make all the difference
[Music]
my second story is about love and loss I
was lucky I found what I loved to do
early in life when I was 20 the
heaviness of being successful was
replaced by the lightness of being a
beginner again less sure about
everything I’m convinced that the only
thing that kept me going was that I
loved what I did you’ve got to find what
you love and that is as 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 just gets better and
better as the years roll on so keep
looking don’t settle
my third story is about death when I was
17 I read a quote that went something
like if you live each day as if it was
your last someday you’ll most certainly
be right it made an impression on me and
since then for the past 33 years I’ve
looked in the mirror every morning and
asked myself if today were the last day
of my life
what I want to do what I am about to do
today and whenever the answer has been
no for too many days in a row I know I
need to change them remembering that
I’ll be dead soon is the most important
tool I’ve ever encountered to help me
make the big choices in life because
almost everything all external
expectations all pride all fear of
embarrassment of failure
these things just fall away in the face
of death leaving only what is truly
important remembering that you are going
to die is the best way I know to avoid
the trap of thinking you have something
to lose you are already naked there is
no reason not to follow your heart
no one wants to die even people who want
to go to heaven don’t want to die to get
there and yet death is the destination
we all share no one has ever escaped it
and that is as it should be because
death is very likely the single best
invention of life its life’s change
agent it clears out the old to make way
for the new right now the new is you but
some day not too long from now you will
purely become the old and be cleared
away sorry to be so dramatic
but it’s quite true your time is limited
so don’t waste it living someone else’s
life don’t be trapped by Dogma which is
living with the results of other
people’s thinking 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 they somehow already know
what you truly want to become everything
else is secondary
were the words stay hungry stay foolish
it was their farewell message as they
signed off stay hungry stay foolish and
I have always wished that for myself and
now as you graduate to begin anew I wish
that for you stay hungry stay foolish
thank you all very much
[Music]
[Music]
if I had never dropped out I would have
never dropped in on that calligraphy
class and personal computers might not
have the wonderful typography that they
do of course it was impossible to
connect the dots looking forward when I
was in college but it was very very
clear looking backwards ten years later
again 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 because believing that the dots
will connect down the road will give you
the confidence to follow your heart even
when it leads you off the well-worn path
and that will make all the difference
[Music]
my second story is about love and loss I
was lucky I found what I loved to do
early in life when I was 20 the
heaviness of being successful was
replaced by the lightness of being a
beginner again less sure about
everything I’m convinced that the only
thing that kept me going was that I
loved what I did you’ve got to find what
you love and that is as 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 just gets better and
better as the years roll on so keep
looking don’t settle
my third story is about death when I was
17 I read a quote that went something
like if you live each day as if it was
your last someday you’ll most certainly
be right it made an impression on me and
since then for the past 33 years I’ve
looked in the mirror every morning and
asked myself if today were the last day
of my life
what I want to do what I am about to do
today and whenever the answer has been
no for too many days in a row I know I
need to change them remembering that
I’ll be dead soon is the most important
tool I’ve ever encountered to help me
make the big choices in life because
almost everything all external
expectations all pride all fear of
embarrassment of failure
these things just fall away in the face
of death leaving only what is truly
important remembering that you are going
to die is the best way I know to avoid
the trap of thinking you have something
to lose you are already naked there is
no reason not to follow your heart
no one wants to die even people who want
to go to heaven don’t want to die to get
there and yet death is the destination
we all share no one has ever escaped it
and that is as it should be because
death is very likely the single best
invention of life its life’s change
agent it clears out the old to make way
for the new right now the new is you but
some day not too long from now you will
purely become the old and be cleared
away sorry to be so dramatic
but it’s quite true your time is limited
so don’t waste it living someone else’s
life don’t be trapped by Dogma which is
living with the results of other
people’s thinking 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 they somehow already know
what you truly want to become everything
else is secondary
were the words stay hungry stay foolish
it was their farewell message as they
signed off stay hungry stay foolish and
I have always wished that for myself and
now as you graduate to begin anew I wish
that for you stay hungry stay foolish
thank you all very much
[Music]
[Music]
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