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Career Advice from Steve Jobs

14/5/2013

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Where are you with your career?  How do you know that you are on track with where you want to be or where you want to be going?

The following video is of Steve Jobs’ (the late co-founder of Apple and Pixar) powerful commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.  In the speech, Jobs shares three personal stories that come with thought-provoking career advice. 

The first story is about connecting the dots: "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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

The second story is about love and loss: "I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. 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 your 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. 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 until you find it. Don’t settle."

The third and final story is on using the power of death: "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 or 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."

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23/10/2013 01:51:55 am

Found this blog from Weebly's index, nice!

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21/7/2014 02:04:45 am

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."

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