Steve Jobs: «Stay hungry. Stay foolish»

A few years ago, Steve Jobs summarized his life in fifteen minutes in a speech for Stanford University. Reflecting on his speech, it is almost inevitable to think: You have to be lucky… Of course, I believe it. Just as I believe that without work and sacrifice, luck rarely arrives. Being willing to change and follow the ideas in which you believe is a good way to start your search.

Three stories that will summarize Steve Jobs’ destiny:

• Connecting the dots> You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. 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.

• Love and loss> I was just a year away from launching our best creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.

And I got fired. Like with anything that has to do with 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.

• Death Almost a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I lived all day with that diagnosis.

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. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.