“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 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.”
This post is a little late as we all received the sad news last week but I just re-watched Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement speech again and couldn’t help being struck by how relevant it was to the mission statement of The Business of Fun.
If you don’t have time to watch the whole speech or read the full transcript, here are a few other standout quotes.
“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 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.”
It is interesting that Jobs changed this passage from the prepared speech and added the Robert Frost reference.
“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. 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 until you find it. Don’t settle.”
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
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