GoodBye Steve

Steve Jobs

Stanford University

June 2005 

 Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking  backwards. So 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. 
This approach has  never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life [...] 

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.  [...]

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. 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 single 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 [...]

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.