Assignment no. 4
Nowadays, many of us dreams of what kind of successful being someday. Some of us pursue their dreams no matter what kind of hardships they will take in order to reach their goals. As I have read the commencement speech of Steve Jobs at Stanford on their college graduation, I had learned a lot from his speech. His speech can be used to our different fields of lives. In many aspects, it can help us to be more encouraged in where we will get fail. Here are some of the lessons that I had learned on the commencement speech of Steve Jobs:
On the first story that was the “connecting the dots”. He said that he did not graduated on college since he thinks that his destiny is not to graduate in college. He is a very easy- go- lucky person to me, since for us, the students, we really think that we should go to school in order to graduate so that we can have a better job for our tomorrow. It was very fascinating for me that the attitude possessed by Steve Jobs. He did not care for the disadvantage of not going to school. He was just very smart enough to think his best choice is to drop his class but his decisions in life at that time caused him to become more successful. It is because, he said that the Macintosh will not have multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. At that time when he dropped out on his regular class, he enrolled a subject about calligraphy which it was very helpful for him to design the Mac. For us who just going to school for now, we need to be good in our decisions so that we can be enabled to attain what kind of success we want in our life, even if at first, we were down, but still if we keep on searching our true meaning of happiness, one day, our experience at the past days, or years, or decades, will help us or guide us to whatever we want in our life.
The second is about “love and loss”. In the speech of Steve Jobs, even he lost his position and fired out in his own company, still Steve Jobs never surrender conquering his goals of what kind of path he take, he still work with the same kind of field even if it was small at the start, until he finally get back in his own company, the Apple. I learned in this story is that, we should be more courageous to our path we take even if we fail. Some people will not continue their ambitions if at first they will fail because by them. We should be able to face the failures in life because it was part of our journey, treat it as your success too, because if we can be able to correct it, we will be much more contented with our choice or path we take.
The Last is about death. We all know that death is the very hard to avoid. We did not know when death come to us and when we will died except for we have threats in life or we are sentence to death due to our sins we made. But, death is the only thing for me that will stop you for what you are while you are living. If you are alive until now, I learned from Steve Jobs is be more enjoyable in your life. You should be able to live life as if you will die tomorrow. You should fulfill what you are wanting for today. Do not hesitate to do things even if you cannot finish it, at least, you try. I remember the words Steve Jobs said in his speech “Stay hungry, stay foolish”. You must be able to give your best in every day you are alive in this world.
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