Steve Jobs: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
August 31, 2007 | By Raymond T. Hightower
At his 2005 Stanford University commencement address, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs tells how a series of unplanned events led to the birth of Apple, Inc. and the creation of the Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone.
Jobs stumbled into great things by following his curiosity and intuition. Seemingly random events turned out to be priceless later on.
Calligraphy
For example, Jobs was forced to drop out of college due to financial pressures. After dropping out he decided to take a calligraphy class where he learned what makes great typography great. Useless? It may have appeared so at the time.
But years later, while Jobs and the team at Apple were designing the Mac, the typography class came back to him. Would Apple have proportionally spaced fonts if Jobs hadn’t taken the calligraphy class? Would Microsoft? Who knows.
Connecting the Dots
One passionate quote from the video:
You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. Believing that the dots will connect in the future 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.
Enjoy!