Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

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概要

TLDRSteve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford University highlights three impactful stories from his life. The first story focuses on 'connecting the dots,' where Jobs reflects on his decision to drop out of Reed College, exploring intuition and following curiosity, leading to innovations like the Macintosh. In his second story about 'love and loss,' Jobs shares his experience of being fired from Apple, which, despite being devastating, led to a highly creative phase, founding NeXT and Pixar. His third story tackles 'death,' where a cancer diagnosis led him to live each day as if it was his last, emphasizing the importance of following one's heart and intuition. His message encourages graduates to follow their passions fearlessly, envision a meaningful life, and 'stay hungry, stay foolish.'

収穫

  • 🎓 Embrace unexpected connections—like Jobs' calligraphy class leading to Mac typography.
  • 💔 Transform setbacks into triumphs—Jobs found success after being fired from Apple.
  • 🕰️ Live each day as if it's your last—motivated by Jobs' cancer diagnosis.
  • 💡 Follow your heart and intuition—they know what you want to become.
  • 🚫 Avoid living someone else's life—break free from dogma.
  • ❤️ Find work you love—for long-term satisfaction and excellence.
  • 🔄 Life's challenges can lead to new opportunities—as Jobs experienced.
  • 📖 Be inspired by 'The Whole Earth Catalog' and its ideals.
  • 🗣️ Avoid letting others' opinions drown out your own voice—trust yourself.
  • 🌟 Always 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish'—embrace curiosity and wisdom.

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    The speaker, honored to address graduates of a prestigious university, shares three personal stories. The first, "Connecting the Dots," recounts dropping out of Reed College and the unforeseen impact on his life. Born to a graduate student who insisted on college-educated adoptive parents, he faced a last-minute adoption change. He attended college but dropped out, feeling uncertain about its value. This led to exploring interests like calligraphy, profoundly influencing the future development of typography in personal computing.

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    The second story, "Love and Loss," reflects on founding Apple in a garage, witnessing its rapid growth, but then getting fired at 30. Despite profound personal failure, the speaker's enduring passion for his work led to founding NeXT and Pixar, thriving professionally and personally. Being fired was a transformative, freeing experience. He emphasizes finding and following one's passion as key to fulfilling work and life, encouraging persistence in seeking it.

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    The third story, "Death," discusses a personal experience with cancer, emphasizing life's finite nature. He was diagnosed with a likely incurable cancer but later found it treatable. This prompted reflections on mortality, underscoring the inevitability and necessity of death as a life-renewing force. He advises living true to oneself, not others' expectations, and highlights the importance of courage in following one's intuition. Concluding with the message "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish," he inspires graduates to live boldly.

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ビデオQ&A

  • Who delivered the speech at Stanford University?

    Steve Jobs delivered the speech at Stanford University.

  • What are the main themes of Steve Jobs' speech?

    The main themes are connecting the dots, love and loss, and facing death.

  • Why did Steve Jobs drop out of college?

    Steve Jobs dropped out because he couldn't see the value in it and was spending all of his parents' savings without knowing what he wanted to do with his life.

  • What did Steve Jobs learn from facing death?

    He learned the importance of living each day as if it were the last and following one's heart and intuition.

  • What story does Steve Jobs use to demonstrate connecting the dots?

    He uses the story of taking a calligraphy class that later influenced the design of the Macintosh computer.

  • How does Steve Jobs describe getting fired from Apple?

    He describes it as the best thing that could have happened to him, which led to a creative period in his life.

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    This program is brought to you by Stanford University.
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    Please visit us at stanford.edu
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    Thank You. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement
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    from one of the finest universities in the world.
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    Truth be told I never graduated from college
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    and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
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    Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it.
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    No big deal. Just three stories.
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    The first story is about connecting the dots.
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    I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months,
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    but then stayed around as a drop-in
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    for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
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    So why did I drop out?
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    It started before I was born.
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    My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student,
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    and she decided to put me up for adoption.
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    She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates,
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    so everything was all set for me to
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    be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.
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    Except that when I popped out they decided
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    at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
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    So my parents, who were on a waiting list,
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    got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected
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    baby boy; do you want him?"
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    They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that
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    my mother had never graduated from college
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    and that my father had never graduated from high school.
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    She refused to sign the final adoption papers.
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    She only relented a few months later when
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    my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.
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    And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college
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    that was almost as expensive as Stanford,
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    and all of my working-class parents'
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    savings were being spent on my college tuition.
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    After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.
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    I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life
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    and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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    And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved
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    their entire life.
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    So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.
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    It was pretty scary at the time,
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    but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
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    The minute I dropped out I could stop
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    taking the required classes that didn't interest me,
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    and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
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    It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room,
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    so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,
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    I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with,
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    and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday
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    night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna
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    temple. I loved it.
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    And much of what I stumbled into by following
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    my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
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    Let me give you one example: Reed College at that
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    time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
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    Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer,
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    was beautifully hand calligraphed.
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    Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes,
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    I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
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    I learned about serif and san serif typefaces,
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    about varying the amount of space
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    between different letter combinations,
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    about what makes great typography great.
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    It was beautiful, historical,
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    artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture,
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    and I found it fascinating.
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    None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
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    But ten years later,
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    when we were designing the first Macintosh computer,
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    it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac.
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    It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
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    If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,
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    the Mac would have never had multiple
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    typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.
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    And since Windows just copied the Mac,
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    it's likely that no personal computer would have them.
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    If I had never dropped out,
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    I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class,
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    and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography
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    that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect
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    the dots looking forward when I was in college.
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    But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
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    Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;
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    you can only connect them looking backwards.
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    So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect
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    in your future.
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    You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma,
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    whatever.
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    Beleiveing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart
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    Even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.
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    My second story is about love and loss.
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    I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life.
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    Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.
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    We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of
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    us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
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    We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh
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    a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.
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    And then I got fired.
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    How can you get fired from a company you started?
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    Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought
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    was very talented to run the company with me,
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    and for the first year or so things went well.
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    But then our visions of the future began
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    to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.
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    When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.
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    So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out.
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    What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone,
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    and it was devastating.
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    I really didn't know what to do for a few months.
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    I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs
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    down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.
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    I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce
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    and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.
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    I was a very public failure,
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    and I even thought about running away from the valley.
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    But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did.
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    The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.
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    I had been rejected, but I was still in love.
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    And so I decided to start over.
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    I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from
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    Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
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    The heaviness of being successful was
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    replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,
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    less sure about everything.
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    It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
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    During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT,
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    another company named Pixar,
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    and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
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    Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature
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    film, Toy Story,
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    and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
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    In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT,
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    I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at
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    NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
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    And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
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    I'm pretty sure none of this would
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    have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.
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    It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
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    Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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    I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved
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    what I did. You've got to find what you love.
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    And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
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    Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
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    and the only way to be truly satisfied
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    is to do what you believe is great work.
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    And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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    If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
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    As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
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    And, like any great relationship,
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    it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
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    So keep looking. Don't settle.
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    My third story is about death.
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    When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like:
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    "If you live each day as if it was your last,
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    someday you'll most certainly be right."
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    It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years,
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    I have looked in the mirror every morning
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    and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life,
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    would I want to do what I am about to do today?"
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    And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row,
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    I know I need to change something.
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    Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important
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    tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
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    Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride,
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    all fear of embarrassment or failure -
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    these things just fall away in the face of death,
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    leaving only what is truly important.
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    Remembering that you are going to die is the best
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    way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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    You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
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    About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.
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    I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning,
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    and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.
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    I didn't even know what a pancreas was.
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    The doctors told me this was almost
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    certainly a type of cancer that is incurable,
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    and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.
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    My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order,
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    which is doctor's code for prepare to die.
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    It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought
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    you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.
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    It means to make sure everything is buttoned
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    up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.
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    It means to say your goodbyes.
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    I lived with that diagnosis all day.
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    Later that evening I had a biopsy,
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    where they stuck an endoscope down my throat,
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    through my stomach and into my intestines,
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    put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
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    I was sedated, but my wife, who was there,
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    told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope
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    the doctors started crying because it turned out to be
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    a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.
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    I had the surgery and thankfully I'm fine now.
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    This was the closest I've been to facing death,
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    and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.
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    Having lived through it,
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    I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when
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    death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
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    No one wants to die.
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    Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
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    And yet death is the destination we all share.
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    No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be,
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    because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
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    It is Life's change agent.
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    It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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    Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now,
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    you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
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    Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
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    Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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    Don't be trapped by dogma which is living
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    with the results of other people's thinking.
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    Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner
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    voice. And most important,
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    have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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    They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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    Everything else is secondary.
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    When I was young,
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    there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog,
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    which was one of the bibles of my generation.
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    It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here
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    in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.
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    This was in the late 1960's,
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    before personal computers and desktop publishing,
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    so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.
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    It was sort of like Google in paperback form,
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    35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic,
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    overflowing with neat tools, and great notions.
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    Stewart and his team put out several
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    issues of The Whole Earth Catalog,
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    and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.
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    It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.
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    On the back cover of their final issue
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    was a photograph of an early morning country road,
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    the kind you might find yourself
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    hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.
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    Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
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    It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry.
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    Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself.
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    And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
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    Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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    Thank you all very much.
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    The preceding program is copyrighted by Stanford University.
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    Please visit us at stanford.edu
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