Steve Jobs

I think that so many things about this speech make it wonderful. I personally loved that he added life anecdotes about himself in it. It makes all of the college students more relatable to him, even though he is a billionaire. Not only that he told stories about himself, but he chose stories that anybody can achieve and that were moments in his life where he thought were the worst, but ended up getting him to where he was. Too often people think of inventors as mad scientists or incredibly advanced intellectuals when they are just like everybody else, except that they made a choice to do something about it when life gave them lemons.
I think Steve Jobs is an amazing man. I always thought that, but now I can understand why. I understand that he was put in awful positions so many times in his life, but he powered through them and always landed on top. When anybody with a reasonable mind would have given up or broken down, he made the best out of it, and won. When he was talking about how everything that happened to him happened for a reason, I knew that he was an optimistic person. Just that, plus the fact that all of his stories involved him overcoming something made an impression on me. He could have chosen any stories he wanted about how rich he became from the corporation, his first job, or any of his successes, but he chose to talk about his failures and how he turned them around. I think that that shows a lot about his character.
I think that the overall point in his speech was that anybody can do anything. He did not go to college, but he was still the head and creator of a billion dollar company. He was saying that when those kids get out of college, that they should do what they like because they will never accomplish something doing what they hate or settled for. His overall speech encouraged them to go for their dreams no matter what. It was effective because when he related to them, it brought him down to their level of hopes and made them understand that just because you have a few hardships, does not mean that you should ever stop.