For 38 years,
Steve Jobs
asks himself
when he brushes his teeth
in the morning,
'If today were
the
last day
of my life,
would
I want to do
what I am about to do
today?'
There was a time
when everything Apple touched
did not turn into gold.
did not turn into gold.
Jobs shares his thoughts on
Death
and
how keeping it
in mind
helped him
truly live.
I've picked out attention-worthy chunks
from his speech at the Stanford University graduation ceremony in 2005.
Though it's now five years,
these nuggets of truths are
timeless life skills
we could consider picking up for ourselves:
*
Remembering
I'll be dead soon
is the most
important tool
I've ever encountered
to help me make big choices in life.
In the
face of death,
all
external expectations,
all
pride,
all
fear of embarrassment
or
failure
just
fall away -
leaving only what is
truly important.
Remembering
that
you are going to die
is the best way
to avoid
the trap of thinking
you have something to
lose.
You are already
naked.
There's no reason
not
to
follow your heart.
*
No one
wants to
die.
And
yet death is
the
destination
we all share.
No one has ever escaped it
and
that is as it should be
because
Death
is very likely
the best invention of
Life.
It is Life's
change agent.
It clears out
the
old
to
make way
for the
new.
Right now
the new
is
you
but
someday
not too long from now,
you will
gradually become the
old
and be
cleared away.
Sorry to be so
dramatic,
but it is true.
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 importantly,
having the
courage
to
follow your heart
and
intuition.
They somehow
already know
what you truly
want
to become.
*
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