Motivational Stories #3 | Leadership | Steve Jobs | Standford Speech HD | Headhunter X

Summary

En su discurso de graduación, Steve Jobs comparte tres historias personales que ilustran la importancia de seguir la intuición, el amor por lo que hacemos y la aceptación de la muerte como un catalizador de cambio. Jobs enfatiza la valía de tomar decisiones que alineen con la pasión, la creatividad y la autenticidad, y concluye con el consejo de 'mantenerse hambrientos y tontos', una frase que inspiró a su generación y que desea para los recién graduados.

Takeaways

• 🎓 La universidad reconoce y celebró la creatividad y espíritu de Steve Jobs, quien nunca completó su educación formal pero tuvo un impacto significativo.
• 🔗 La historia personal de Jobs muestra cómo eventos aparentemente desconexados en la vida pueden conectarse y tener un impacto futuro en el éxito.
• 💡 Jobs enfatiza la importancia de seguir la curiosidad e intuición, lo que le llevó a tomar una clase de caligrafía que más tarde influenció en el diseño del primer Macintosh.
• 💔 La pérdida y el rechazo pueden ser pasos hacia el éxito. Jobs fue despedido de Apple, lo que le permitió reinventarse y eventualmente regresar con una visión fresca.
• ❤️ El amor por lo que haces es fundamental para la satisfacción y el éxito. Jobs insta a los graduados a encontrar su pasión y no conformarse con menos.
• 💀 La proximidad de la muerte puede ser un recordatorio poderoso para vivir de acuerdo con los valores personales y tomar decisiones audaces.
• 📅 La vida es limitada, y es importante no desperdiciarla siguiendo las expectativas de otros en lugar de las propias aspiraciones.
• 🚀 La frase 'Stay hungry, stay foolish' de la revista 'Whole Earth Catalog' simboliza la importancia de mantener la ambición y la ingenuidad para seguir aprendiendo y creciendo.
• 🛑 Jobs comparte su experiencia con el cáncer, lo que le enseñó a valorar aún más la vida y a actuar según lo que es verdaderamente importante.
• 🧠 La confianza en uno mismo y en seguir el corazón es crucial, ya que es la mejor guía para alcanzar lo que uno realmente desea ser o lograr.
• 🌟 Jobs desafía a los graduados a vivir con pasión, curiosidad e ingenio, como él lo hizo, para alcanzar su máximo potencial.

Q & A

¿Qué simboliza Steve Jobs en el espíritu y la creatividad de la universidad?

Steve Jobs personifica el espíritu y la creatividad que han caracterizado a la universidad desde su fundación hace 114 años.

¿Por qué Steve Jobs nunca se graduó de la universidad?

Steve Jobs nunca se graduó de la universidad porque decidió abandonar Reed College después de seis meses debido a que no veía el valor en continuar y no tenía claro qué quería hacer con su vida.

¿Cuál es la primera historia que Steve Jobs comparte en su discurso?

La primera historia que Steve Jobs comparte trata sobre 'conectar los puntos' y cómo su decisión de dejar la universidad y asistir a clases de caligrafía influyó en el diseño de la tipografía del Macintosh.

¿Cómo influyó la clase de caligrafía en el desarrollo del Macintosh?

La clase de caligrafía que Jobs tomó le enseñó sobre tipografías y el espaciado entre letras, lo cual incorporó en el diseño del Macintosh, haciendo que fuera el primer ordenador con tipografía hermosa.

¿Qué dice Steve Jobs sobre conectar los puntos en la vida?

Steve Jobs dice que no se pueden conectar los puntos mirando hacia adelante, solo se pueden conectar mirando hacia atrás, y que uno debe confiar en que los puntos se conectarán en el futuro.

¿Cuál es la segunda historia que Steve Jobs comparte en su discurso?

La segunda historia que Steve Jobs comparte es sobre el amor y la pérdida, específicamente sobre cómo fue despedido de Apple, la empresa que él mismo había fundado.

¿Qué lección aprendió Steve Jobs al ser despedido de Apple?

Steve Jobs aprendió que ser despedido de Apple fue una de las mejores cosas que le pasó, ya que le permitió reiniciar y entrar en uno de los periodos más creativos de su vida, fundando NeXT y Pixar.

¿Cómo se recuperó Steve Jobs después de ser despedido de Apple?

Después de ser despedido, Jobs fundó NeXT y Pixar, y eventualmente Apple compró NeXT, lo que permitió a Jobs regresar a Apple y contribuir a su resurgimiento.

¿Cuál es la tercera historia que Steve Jobs comparte en su discurso?

La tercera historia que Steve Jobs comparte es sobre la muerte, y cómo el recordar que va a morir ha sido una herramienta importante para él al tomar grandes decisiones en su vida.

¿Qué impacto tuvo el diagnóstico de cáncer en la perspectiva de vida de Steve Jobs?

El diagnóstico de cáncer hizo que Jobs valorara aún más el tiempo limitado que tenía y reforzó su creencia en seguir su corazón y su intuición, ya que la vida es corta y no hay razón para no seguir lo que uno ama.

¿Qué consejo final da Steve Jobs a los graduados?

Steve Jobs aconseja a los graduados que se mantengan hambrientos y audaces ('stay hungry, stay foolish'), y que siempre sigan su corazón e intuición, ya que ellos ya saben en lo que realmente quieren convertirse.

Outlines

00:00

🎓 La importancia de conectar los puntos de la vida

En el primer párrafo, Steve Jobs comparte su experiencia universitaria no convencional, donde decidió abandonar sus estudios tras seis meses en Reed College. Narra cómo su elección de asistir a una clase de caligrafía, impulsada por su interés personal, influyó en el diseño del primer Macintosh con tipografías variadas. Jobs enfatiza la importancia de seguir la curiosidad e intuición, ya que las decisiones aparentemente aleatorias pueden tener un impacto significativo en el futuro.

05:00

❤️ La historia de amor y pérdida en la fundación de Apple

Jobs narra su segunda historia, centrada en el amor por su trabajo y cómo fue despedido de Apple, la empresa que fundó a los 20 años. Describe el impacto emocional de esta situación y cómo, a pesar de la devastación inicial, encontró la fuerza para comenzar de nuevo, lo que llevó a la creación de Next y Pixar, y eventualmente a su regreso a Apple. Esta experiencia refleja la idea de que los momentos difíciles pueden ser precursores de oportunidades y logros aún mayores.

10:02

⚰ La muerte como motivación para la autenticidad

En el tercer párrafo, Jobs reflexiona sobre la muerte y su cercanía con ella tras ser diagnosticado con un cáncer del páncreas. Comparte cómo esta experiencia le recordó la importancia de vivir de acuerdo con los valores personales y de no posponer el seguimiento de los sueños. Jobs insta a los oyentes a no dejar que las opiniones de otros impidan escuchar su propia voz interior y a tener el coraje de seguir su corazón y su intuición.

Keywords

💡Conexión de puntos

La frase 'Conexión de puntos' se refiere a la idea de que eventos aparentemente aislados en la vida pueden, en retrospectiva, verse como parte de un patrón más grande que influye en el futuro. En el discurso, Jobs menciona que sus elecciones en la universidad, como asistir a una clase de caligrafía, parecían inútiles en ese momento, pero más tarde influyeron en la creación del primer Macintosh con tipografías bonitas.

💡Adopción

El término 'Adopción' es central en la historia personal de Jobs, quien fue adoptado por un matrimonio que no cumplía con las expectativas de su madre biológica de ser graduados universitarios. Esta circunstancia inicial establece el escenario de su vida y su valoración de la educación, llevándolo a la universidad y, eventualmente, a su retiro.

💡Caligrafía

La 'Caligrafía' es mencionada como un ejemplo de un conocimiento que, aunque no parecía tener aplicación inmediata, resultó ser fundamental en el diseño del primer Macintosh. Jobs descubre su fascinación por la caligrafía en una clase que tomó después de abandonar sus estudios universitarios.

💡Desecho

El 'Desecho' se refleja en la experiencia de Jobs al ser despedido de Apple, la empresa que él fundó. Este evento, aunque devastador, le permite reinventarse y entrar en uno de los periodos más creativos de su vida, lo que demuestra que a veces el 'desecho' puede ser un punto de inflexión positivo.

💡Amor

El 'Amor' es un tema recurrente en el discurso, ya que Jobs habla de su amor por lo que hace y cómo, a pesar de ser rechazado por Apple, su amor por la tecnología y la creatividad lo mantuvo en el camino de seguir su pasión, lo que eventualmente le llevó a tener éxito en nuevas empresas.

💡Muerte

La 'Muerte' se presenta como un catalizador para la toma de decisiones importantes en la vida de Jobs. Él utiliza la idea de vivir cada día como si fuera el último para enfocarse en lo que realmente importa, lo que le permite a él y a los oyentes del discurso priorizar sus metas y deseos personales.

💡Cáncer

El 'Cáncer' es un elemento crucial en el tercer relato de Jobs, donde describe su diagnóstico y la perspectiva que le proporcionó sobre la vida. Su experiencia con el cáncer, aunque al principio parece ser terminal, resulta en una forma curable y refuerza su mensaje de vivir con propósito y pasión.

💡Seguimiento del corazón

El 'Seguimiento del corazón' es un tema central en el discurso, donde Jobs insta a los graduados a confiar en sus corazones e intuiciones, incluso cuando las decisiones sean difíciles o no estén alineadas con lo convencional. Él comparte su propia vida como ejemplo de cómo seguir su pasión lo llevó a un camino de éxito y satisfacción personal.

💡Estética

La 'Estética' se menciona en relación con la caligrafía y la tipografía en el primer Macintosh, destacando la importancia de la belleza y el diseño en la tecnología. Jobs ve la estética como un aspecto integral del diseño de productos que contribuye a su éxito y a su capacidad de impactar en las personas.

💡Innovación

La 'Innovación' es un concepto clave en el discurso de Jobs, quien aboga por la importancia de pensar de manera creativa y atreverse a hacer cosas diferentes. Su experiencia con Pixar y su regreso a Apple demuestran cómo la innovación puede llevar a cambios significativos y éxito en el mundo de la tecnología y la animación.

💡Perseverancia

La 'Perseverancia' se refleja en la vida de Jobs y en su mensaje de graduación. A pesar de los desafíos y los momentos de incertidumbre, Jobs insiste en la importancia de no rendirse y de continuar buscando y persiguiendo lo que uno ama, lo que finalmente conduce a la realización personal y profesional.

Highlights

Steve Jobs is introduced as the commencement speaker at Stanford University.

Jobs never graduated from college and this is his closest encounter with a college graduation.

He shares his life story through three main anecdotes.

Jobs' biological mother was a young graduate student who put him up for adoption with the condition that he be adopted by college graduates.

His parents promised his biological mother that he would attend college, which he did but later dropped out.

After dropping out, Jobs audited classes that interested him, such as a calligraphy course, which later influenced the design of the Macintosh computer.

Jobs emphasizes the importance of trusting that life's experiences will connect in the future, even if they don't make sense at the time.

He recounts being fired from Apple, the company he co-founded, which he later considers a blessing in disguise.

Jobs' experience post-Apple includes starting NeXT and Pixar, which led to significant personal and professional growth.

He stresses the importance of loving what you do, as it is the key to satisfaction and success in both work and life.

Jobs shares a quote that influenced him: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.'

He was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, which was curable, and this experience reinforced his views on life and death.

Jobs advises the graduates to live life without regrets, not being trapped by dogma or the opinions of others.

He encourages the graduates to have the courage to follow their hearts and intuitions, as they already know what they truly want to become.

Jobs concludes with the wish for the graduates to 'Stay hungry, stay foolish,' a motto from the Whole Earth Catalog.

Transcripts

Steve Jobs personifies the spirit and

creativity that have characterized this

University since its founding 114 years

ago

and we are pleased to have him here

today please join me in warmly welcoming

this year's commencement speaker Steve

Jobs

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thank you

I'm honored to be with you today for

your commencement from one of the finest

universities in the world

all right

truth be told

I never graduated from college

and this is the closest I've ever gotten

to a college graduation

today I want to tell you three stories

from my life that's it no big deal just

three stories

first story

is about connecting the dots

I dropped out of Reed College after the

first six months but then stayed around

as a drop-in for another 18 months or so

before I really quit

so why'd I drop out

it started before I was born

my biological mother was a young unwed

graduate student and she decided to put

me up for adoption

she felt very strongly that I should be

adopted by college graduates so

everything was all set for me to be

adopted at Birth by a lawyer and his

wife

except that when I popped out they

decided at the last minute that they

really wanted a girl

so my parents who were on a waiting list

got a call in the middle of the night

asking

we've got an unexpected baby boy do you

want him

they said of course

my biological mother found out later

that my mother had never graduated from

college and that my father had never

graduated from high school

she refused to sign the final adoption

papers

she only relented a few months later

when my parents promised that I would go

to college

this was the start in my life

and 17 years later I did go to college

but I naively chose a college that was

almost as expensive as Stanford

and all of my working class parents

savings were being spent on my college

tuition

after six months I couldn't see the

value in it I had no idea what I wanted

to do with my life and no idea how

College was going to help me figure it

out

and here I was spending all the money my

parents had saved their entire life

so I decided to drop out and trust that

it would all work out okay

it was pretty scary at the time but

looking back it was one of the best

decisions I ever made

the minute I dropped out

I could stop taking the required classes

that didn't interest me and begin

dropping in on the ones that looked far

more interesting

it wasn't all romantic I didn't have a

dorm room so I slept on the floor in

friends rooms

I returned Coke bottles for the five

cent deposits to buy food with

and I would walk the seven miles across

town every Sunday night

to get one good meal a week at the Hari

Krishna Temple

I loved it

and much of what I stumbled into by

following my curiosity and intuition

turned out to be Priceless later on

let me give you one example

read college at that time offered

perhaps the best calligraphy instruction

in the country throughout the campus

every poster every label on every drawer

was beautifully hand calligraphed

because I had dropped out and didn't

have to take the normal classes

I decided to take a calligraphy class to

learn how to do this I learned about

serif and sans-serif typefaces about

varying the amount of space between

different letter combinations about what

makes great typography great

it was beautiful historical artistically

subtle in a way that science can't

capture

and I found it fascinating

none of this had even a hope of any

practical application in my life

but ten years later when we were

designing the first Macintosh computer

it all came back to me and we designed

it all into the Mac it was the first

computer with beautiful typography

if I had never dropped in on that single

course in college the Mac would have

never had multiple typefaces or

proportionally spaced fonts and since

Windows just copied the Mac it's likely

that no personal computer would have

them

[Applause]

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 10 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

my second story is about love and loss

I was lucky I found what I love to do

early in life was and I started Apple in

my parents garage when I was 20. we

worked hard and in 10 years Apple had

grown from Just the Two of Us in a

garage into a two billion dollar company

with over four thousand employees we

just released our finest creation the

Macintosh a year earlier and I just

turned 30.

and then I got fired

how can you get fired from a company you

started

well as Apple grew we hired someone who

I thought was very talented to run the

company with me and for the first year

or so things went well but then our

visions of the future began to diverge

and eventually we had a falling out when

we did our board of directors sided with

him and so at 30 I was out and very

publicly out

what had been the focus of my entire

adult life was gone and it was

devastating

I really didn't know what to do for a

few months

I felt that I'd let the previous

generation of entrepreneurs down that I

had dropped the Baton as it was being

passed to me

I met with David Packard and Bob Noyes

and tried to apologize for screwing up

so badly

I was a very public failure and I even

thought about running away from the

valley

but something slowly began to dawn on me

I still loved what I did

the turn of events at Apple had not

changed that one bit

I'd been rejected but I was still in

love

and so I decided to start over

I didn't see it then but it turned out

that getting fired from Apple was the

best thing that could have ever happened

to me

the heaviness of being successful was

replaced by the lightness of being a

beginner again less sure about

everything

freed me to enter one of the most

creative periods of my life

during the next five years I started a

company named next another company named

Pixar and fell in love with an amazing

woman who would become my wife

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

in a remarkable turn of events

Apple bought next and I returned to

Apple and the technology we developed it

next is at the heart of Apple's current

Renaissance

and Laureen and I have a wonderful

family together

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

sometime life sometimes life's going to

hit 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 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

[Applause]

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 something

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

about a year ago I was diagnosed with

cancer

I had a scan at 7 30 in the morning and

it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas

I didn't even know what a pancreas was

the doctors told me this was almost

certainly a type of cancer that is

incurable and that I should expect to

live no longer than three to six months

my doctor advised me to go home and get

my Affairs in order which is doctor's

code for prepare to die

it means to try and tell your kids

everything

you thought you'd have the next 10 years

to tell them in just a few months

it means to make sure everything is

buttoned up so that will be as easy as

possible for your family

it means to say your goodbyes

I live with that diagnosis all day

later that evening I had a biopsy where

they stuck an endoscope down my throat

through my stomach and into my

intestines put a needle into my pancreas

and got a few cells from the tumor

I was sedated but my wife who was there

told me that when they viewed the cells

under a microscope the doctor started

crying because it turned out to be a

very rare form of pancreatic cancer that

is curable with surgery

I had the surgery and thankfully I'm

fine now

this was the closest I've been to facing

death and I hope it's the closest I get

for a few more decades having lived

through it I can now say this to you

with a bit more certainty than when

death was a useful but purely

intellectual concept

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

it's life's change agent it clears out

the old to make way for the new

right now the new is you

but someday not too long from now you

will gradually 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

drowned 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

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when I was young there was an amazing

publication called the whole earth

catalog which was one of the Bibles of

my generation

it was created by a fellow named Stuart

brand not far from here in Menlo Park

and he brought it to life with his

poetic touch

this was in the late 60s before personal

computers and desktop publishing so it

was all made with typewriters scissors

and Polaroid cameras it was sort of like

Google and paperback form 35 years

before Google came along

it was idealistic overflowing with neat

tools and great Notions

Dort and his team put out several issues

of the whole earth catalog and then when

it had run its course they put out a

final issue it was the mid-1970s and I

was your age

on the back cover of their final issue

was a photograph of an early morning

Country Road the kind you might find

yourself hitchhiking on if you were so

adventurous

beneath it 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

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