While in an ISS class this week, my professor played this video for the class. I am usually very tired in the class but for some reason when Steve Jobs started talking, I was enthralled. He spoke about his life experiences and how his failures helped him to blossom. It's funny how our roadblocks become doors to a new path. What really inspired me was his story.
Steve talks about how his birth mother put him up for adoption with the regulations for the new parents being that they graduated from college. The parents set up to adopt him were really hoping for a girl, so when he was born they backed out. Steve's parents got a call in the middle of the night and even though they hadn't gone to college, they promised his birth mother that he would. Steve had a good education but after a year in college he felt like he wasn't becoming better. He was spending all of his parent's hard earned money to pass classes and not learn things he really liked. He dropped out of college and struggled to get by, but he sat through classes that truly interested him, like calligraphy.
When him and his friend invented the Mac a little while later, the fonts and typing styles wouldn't have been possible without Steve sitting in on that calligraphy class. He faced many hardships, one being fired from Apple, the company he created. However, this led him to create Pixar, another brilliant idea. What I learned is that great things come from the hardships.
I applied this to my life. I am taking classes that interest me and bettering myself so that after my college experience is over, I am ready to take the next step in my life: become a teacher. I am going to be so happy, I can just feel it. I am so passionate about the things I am learning and what I will become. Steve Jobs ended his commencement speech talking about a phrase that always stuck with him from a magazine when he was a young adult. It said "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." I love that. Throughout my education and later career I am going to make sure I never let my setbacks get the best of me, and of course I am forever going to be hungry and foolish.
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