Steve Jobs on mortality

John Raabe · October 06, 2011, 10:29:11 AM

Steve Jobs giving a Stanford commencement speech in 2005

"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."

NM_Shooter · October 06, 2011, 10:53:02 AM

Psalm 39

October 06, 2011, 11:48:28 AM

Quote from: John Raabe on October 06, 2011, 10:29:11 AM
Steve Jobs giving a Stanford commencement speech in 2005

"There is no reason not to follow your heart."

yes.. it's the main reason I work less, laugh more, say "I love you", and built a cabin in the woods. If we don't live our dreams now, then when? May everyone live Job's words, look back in the end of their season and smile as their cabin door closes.

Peace

Gary O · October 06, 2011, 12:02:49 PM

Quote from: AdironDoc on October 06, 2011, 11:48:28 AM
yes.. it's the main reason I work less, laugh more, say "I love you", and built a cabin in the woods. If we don't live our dreams now, then when? May everyone live Job's words, look back in the end of their season and smile as their cabin door closes.

Peace

SUPERB

Raising the glass

peternap · October 06, 2011, 04:01:04 PM

Quote from: AdironDoc on October 06, 2011, 11:48:28 AM
yes.. it's the main reason I work less, laugh more, say "I love you", and built a cabin in the woods. If we don't live our dreams now, then when? May everyone live Job's words, look back in the end of their season and smile as their cabin door closes.

Peace

Yep!

http://vimeo.com/28642857

"dream as if youll live forever, live as if youll die today"

October 07, 2011, 07:54:12 AM

Last decade we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash.... Now we got no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash....

Gary O · October 07, 2011, 08:41:12 AM

Quote from: Rob_O on October 07, 2011, 07:54:12 AM
Last decade we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash.... Now we got no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash....

Excellent, Rob_O!
I gotta steal that and forward.
TGIF!

Windpower · October 07, 2011, 09:40:50 AM

Full speech here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

glenn kangiser · October 09, 2011, 12:43:46 AM

The other Steve Jobs....

http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs

This epitomizes the type of corporate leaders I sometimes have to deal with.