Tonight, I’m going to let others do the sharing for me.
I just watched the commencement speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford in 2005 (link).
Fresh off thinking about my bucket list, I was drawn to the title, “How to Live Before You Die”. I’ll briefly share a part of that speech that resonated with me.
“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.“
On a similar note, I was reading some of David Deida’s thoughts in The Way of the Superior Man. He writes from a masculine point of view, but it works for any of us. He says:
“The world and your woman will always present you with unforeseen challenges. You are either living fully, giving your gift in the midst of those challenges, even today, or you are waiting for an imaginary future that will never come. Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted…”
Lastly, Steve Jobs ends his speech with a farewell message to the Stanford graduates, one I think is appropriate to us all, one that we can each interpret our own way:
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
