When we pick up the Apple phone and use the Apple computer, we will inadvertently ring a name: Steve Jobs. He is the well-known co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. During a speech at Stanford University, he shared three stories of his life with college students. After listening to his story, you will be surprised to find that such a great founder of Apple mobile phone development has not received a formal college education, and Jobs and Woz founded Apple company in Jobs' parents' garage and his experience at Apple has not been smooth. He even left Apple due to a disagreement with his partners. What's more surprising is that he told everyone at the end of his speech that he had cancer and his life has entered the countdown. However, the great man of this era did not give up on the cause he loved when he encountered difficulties. Even at the end of his life, he still used his stories to inspire young people to stick to what they loved and pursue their dreams.
Connecting the dots, chasing after the things you desire and by having faith in doing so, even when you encounter setbacks, don't give up and this may be an important turning point in your life. When Jobs was 17 years old, because his family could not afford his expensive university expenses, and Jobs could not find any value that this university could bring to him, he finally chose to drop out of school. After dropping out of school, he began to put his experience into the study he was interested in. By chance, he was attracted by the beautiful handwriting teaching provided by Reed College at that time. He learned serif and san serif fonts and excellent typesetting effects. Gradually, Jobs found it fascinating. This technology seemed useless at that time, but it was very useful when he designed the first Macintosh computer ten years later. If he hadn't taken calligraphy class that year, Mac would not have multiple fonts or proportionally spaced fonts, nor would it have excellent typesetting. These were absolutely unexpected to Jobs ten years ago. These small things in life will be linked together in the future and lead him to success. If you believe that all your efforts now will be doubled in the future, it will be very helpful.
Having the courage to follow your heart and intuition to pursue what you love, and frankly accept every loss. Each loss may lead you to a new gain. When Jobs was 30 years old, he released one of his best products - the Macintosh computer, and then he was fired by Apple. Although Apple was founded by him, he and other managers of the company began to disagree on the future of Apple, and finally, they quarreled. He left Apple, which was a public failure for Jobs. He felt a setback at that time. After several months of the downturn, Jobs found that he still loved developing smart electronic products, and he decided to start again. Then he founded Next and Pixar and met his wife, a woman he loved all his life. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. When speaking about his serious public failure, Jobs said: the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Cherish time, treat every day of your life as the last day, and create your value. When Jobs told his third story, he frankly told the public that he had been diagnosed with cancer and that he knew that his life had entered the countdown stage. But he said to Stanford students excitedly: No one wants to die. 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. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Life, old age, illness, and death are indeed cycles that cannot be chosen and changed in life. Jobs chose to face his death frankly. He didn't worry about gains and losses at the last stage of his life, and then he cherished his life more. He devoted every day as the last day of his life to the research and development of Apple's new products and the work he loved all his life. Even cancer can't prevent Jobs from creating his life value.
In conclusion, the reason why Jobs was so successful was that he believed in his own intuition, be good at connecting dots of daily life, held an obsession with the work he loved, optimistically regarded failure as the turning point of his next success, bravely accepted the challenges of illness and death, cherished life, and did not let his life be wasted. Although Jobs passed away, his innovative ideas and never-say-die spirit continued at Apple. Both Jobs' speech and his consistent entrepreneurial spirit have inspired generations of young people to stick to their beliefs, work hard for their beloved work, make good use of every day, and never give up even in the face of failure, believing that after every turning point in life, they will encounter new opportunities for success.