IT Elective - Assignment 4

What are the lessons that you learned after reading the commencement address of Steve Jobs? (at least 1000words)

Living a perfect life is impossible for life is unfair. There are things we need to experience inorder for us to grow and develop as wells as lessons to learn no matter how hard it is for us to overcome. As we go on with our lives, we always happen to learn life’s essential lessons the hard way around.
As I carefully read through Steven Jobs’ commencement address at Stanford way back 2005, I managed to learn some essential and relevant lessons that are of great help to us. First lesson I have learned with his speech was in connecting the dots. He was perfectly right that you cannot connect the dots by looking forward; you can only connect it by looking backwards. There are things we tend to overlook as we go over our lives. Things that we thought are of little or no relevance at all. But, as time goes by, we were caught off guard by the things we previously thought that those things was irrelevant to us. For example, Steven Jobs can’t see the value of going to college so he dropped out. But as time progresses, he stumbled on the calligraphed texts and noticed that it was beautiful. Moving on, Steve Jobs decided to enroll at a calligraphy class at Reed College. As time passed, he managed and learned on how to beautifully write texts. He found out that even science can’t capture its art. If he did not dropped out at college, there was a big possibility that he can’t come across at the beautifully typed texts and the likes. And the Mac would not have its beautiful typefaces. This was the way the dots connect at Steve Jobs life. Clearly, we cannot connect the dots in our life just by relying on the present scenario, we just have to trust and hope that somehow, someday our dots will connect.
Next was perseverance pays a lot. We knew that Steve Jobs didn’t finish college, but look at him now, he is earning a lot. Steve Jobs persevere together with Woz and they begin to build there masterpiece way back years ago. I also learned that some people took a long time just to know their interest in life. Good for Steven Jobs because he managed to know his interest at an early stage. Even though some of us had a lot of time wasted in search of our interest, still when that time comes, the fruits of our labor will turn out just fine. We need to have faith and do our part.
I also learned that being on the top requires a lot of painstaking maneuver and respect. And one should be careful whom to trust. Steven Jobs got fired from his own company during his 30’s by the people he entrusted with. Imagine, just by merely trusting someone or somebody could instantly make or break an individual, and Steven Jobs is no exception to the rule. We should be careful enough and meticulously examine every detail of the situation even if it requires us our precious time, in turn, it could be beneficial to us.
As days goes by, Steven Jobs managed to pick himself up from the failures of his life, from being ousted from his very own company, the Apple Computer Inc., Steve Jobs drew attention due to this situation. He returned back to being a beginner. Imagine, from the top he plunged down to the very bottom. This proves that what goes up must come down but the law of gravity didn’t states on how painful it is to fall from the top. But the unfortunate event in Steven Jobs’ life turned out just fine, thus it paved the way for Steven Jobs to be more creative and innovative and then he managed to build another computer company in which he called NEXT. The failure of Steven Jobs just turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him. How I wish life were just as the same as Jobs’. Life seemed just unraveled its beauty onto his side.
You’ve got to love what you are doing, Steven Jobs said. It is very true and it implies to each and every one of us. We have to love what we are doing in order for us to produce top quality outputs in life. Just by loving what we are doing, we can assure ourselves that we give our best to everything we have done. And of course, we can guarantee to them that it is the best of our doing. You can also feel satisfaction just by loving what you are doing with your life. And if by chance you still did not found the things you love to do, use your heart, feel everything that is of importance to you and is related to you. And if you managed to use your heart, I’m sure you will find what you are looking for. Just don’t settle, always keep looking. Just like in every relationship, it gets better and better as time goes by. Keep looking, keep moving.
If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right Steve Jobs said. If you apply that lesson to your everyday life, you can guarantee yourself that you have done something right, something very useful, something that has relevance and something that you love. I also learned to live your life to the fullest without regrets, and without doubts. I also learned that money should not be the priority of every one; it should be our family, our loved ones. Money can’t buy happiness; money can’t buy you an extra life. Yet, money should be set aside, you should take care first of your family, because whatever happens to you, your family will always be by your side, constantly and undyingly supporting you with everything they can. Being with you family gives you energy to continue living and striving.
And lastly, we should not be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of others thinking. Our time is limited, so in turn; we should do our best to leave a mark onto this world, something worth dying for.