Steve Jobs

In my opinion, this speech was very well done. It shows me a new way of thinking about careers that I have never imagined about. What Steve Jobs have said indeed surprised me, and I now know how to think of life: To live with the choices that I make everyday without regretting them, as if I were to die the next day. He has changed my point of view, therefore I find his speech utterly inspiring. Also, the metaphors and similes that Steve had used in his speech were clever. For example, "I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. This was when he got fired from the job that HE started. The way his speech was formed, well put together and inspiring, also the choice of words and metaphors/similes made his speech very well done in my eyes. A quote that really inspired me was "'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ' If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something." I am now considering, just from reading his speech, to use this way of thinking towards each day. Overall, I thought his speech had a good choice of words, metaphors/similes, and on top of all, it was inspiring.

I think Steve Jobs is a inspiring, smart, experienced, wise man, even if he did not graduate college. The reason why I say that he is inspiring is because he inspired me to think about life in a better way, so I would not regret what I have done, and love what I am about to do. Like everyone else in the world, I would like to be as happy as possible and do the things I love. He is a smart man, obviously he needs to be in order to create Macintosh/Apple products. Although he did not graduate college, he did what he loved and this made him even smarter. The more a person loves something, the more they are commited they are to it, the more commited, then the more you learn about what you love. Steve was an experienced and wise man because he has gone through a lot in life, he experienced many situations of downfall and uprise. He was adopted, he did not graduate college even though his parents promised his real parents that he would, and he has gone through the phases in life where he does not know what he loves. Being through these experiences strengthened him, and made him a wise man. Wise enough to know how to live his life and inspire others by it.

This speech was effective on the impressions of people who plan to graduate college. This is because Steve Jobs himself was supposed to graduate college, but while taking it, could not find what he loved in life. He could not find the value in going to college everyday learning about things that he did not plan to use or remember in the future. A lot of his parents money was going towards college as well, the more reason to drop out. Therefore, he did, he dropped out and went on a journey to find what he loved in life and take action upon it. Yes, he did trip once in a while on the rough road, but everytime he had tripped, he had got up and tried again. His uprises were successful in the end, and that's what counts. He did his best, and thought about how he was going to get and do what he loved, and he did. This tells people who plan to go to college, that if they are not finding any intrests in it, do not spend your parents money on an expensive college, just go out in the open and adventure. Adventure to find what you love.