Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address – How did the talk affect you? The most essential driver that the talk affected me is that Steve Jobs used a lot of his life experiences to indicate the point he wanted to deliver. He structured the contents into three stories. They are “connecting the dots”, “love and loss”, and “death”. I have learned three points through the stories. First of all, we can't connec t the dots looking forward; we can only connect them looking backward. We have to trust in something — our gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Secondly, sometimes life hits us in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. The only way to do great work is to love what we do. If we haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” Thirdly, don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out our own inner voice. – How does this talk catch the listeners’ attention (or does it all)? I think it is based on three reasons. First of all, he told everyone he was going to s...
