Steve Jobs's Speech

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What I thought about Steve Jobs’s great speech

It was one of the greatest speeches I have ever known, touching, motivational and great speech. I agree with him much of what he said. To me he was basically saying “Believe in yourself” by follow your curiosity and intuition, and doing what you really love. This speech inspired me a lot and encouraged me to believe in me.

What part I liked the most was the story of connecting dots. I tend to regret about the past like “I should’ve done it, I shouldn’t have done it or I could’ve done more”. It is hard for me to be confident of that my choice is whether right or not. In the speech he mentioned “you can only connect them looking backwards”. Ever since I watched this part, I came to think every single thing I do and choose may be connected somehow in the future. All I have to do is believing in me.

He also mentioned “you’ve got to find what you really love”. For me it’s the most difficult thing in the world. I took one year off last year and went to Canada because living in abroad was what I wanted to do the most. It was a great experience and I really enjoyed it but I’m still looking for what I really want to do when it comes to work. I’m about to start job hunting and to be honest, very anxious about it. This speech made me think about my future from wider point of view. He is really lucky to find what he really liked and made success in business with it. I was almost gave up finding what I love because I have lots of likes but no loves when it comes to think about my future goal. But I decided to keep looking for it. “Don’t settle” what a great phrase for all the people who haven’t found what they love yet like me.

Form his speech I thought Steve is very persistent. Even he kicked out from his company; he kept looking for the way to do what he loved. And also he is very creative. Those may be the reasons why he is called one of the greatest leaders.

However after I felt these ways I mentioned...