If you have not yet joined the planet in watching Steve Job’s Stanford Commencement address, get your butt over to it asap (see below). It is good stuff- really good stuff- and reminds us that the rules in life/work are the same as the rules in love. PLUS loving what you do is success and never settling is the only way to honour yourself in everything you do. This is hard to remember in a cluttered life.
Don’t give up on love. After getting fired from Apple when he was 30 years old, Jobs was devastated. “But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.” How is this any different from never ever giving up on love, even if things go wrong in one relationship?
Love can come during times of greatest adversity. Being fired from Apple freed Jobs to enter “one of the most creative periods of my life.” During the next five years, he started two companies and “fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.”
You have to find what — and who — you love. “I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. 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.”
Don’t settle for second-best. “Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
The most satisfying relationships get better as time goes on. “And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
“you are already naked- there is no reason not to follow your heart” all quotes in red by Steve Jobs
I LOVE THAT.
