Steve Jobs Speech
If you are old enough:), you are most likely to remember the famous speech Steve Jobs delivered on June 12 2005 at Stanford University. If not, it’s high time you listen to it! In his speech, Steve Jobs told the audience three stories from his life. “That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.” One about connecting the dots, one about love and loss, and one about death. Three life messages that may help you achieve what you dream of…
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Question 1 of 6
1. Question
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with ……………….. 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling …………………….. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
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over = more THANbegan to diverge = became different
we had a falling out = we had an argument/disagreementto side with sb = to support sb in an argumen
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2. Question
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs ………………………….. — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn ………………………… me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
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to let someone down = to disappoint someone
to drop the baton = to drop the stick that is passed by one runner to another (sport)
it begins to dawn on me = slowly, it becomes clear to me
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to let someone down = to disappoint someone
to drop the baton = to drop the stick that is passed by one runner to another (sport)
it begins to dawn on me = slowly, it becomes clear to me
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Question 3 of 6
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I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that ………………………………….. have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
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During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who ……………………………. become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
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Question 5 of 6
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I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me………………………….. was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
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Question 6 of 6
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. ………………..with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death.
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Source: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
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