Steve Jobs About Connecting the Dots

In this speech Steve Jobs talks about “Conecting the Dots” meaning that everything happens for a reason. He tells three amazing different stories. These three anecdotes lead him to become the succsesfull person he was. During his speech, he made sure to let everybody know that he didnt get his success on a silver platter. He says to get where we want to be means working hard. I believe his speech was so impacting because he doesn’t leave one detail behind. In fact, he even mentions the failures in his life. For example, when he was fired from Apple. He really makes me feel like it is okay for something to not go as planned and has taught me to persevere.

Jobs said that the calligraphy class he took after dropping out didnt seem to be very important, Little did he know that almost 10 years later it would’ve helped to create the first computer with beautiful caligraphy. He reminds his public several times this famous saying “You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards”.

In other words, what I understood was that everything happens for a reason and you can’t choose the order in which everything occurs. You may not understand it, like it, or enjoy it at the moment but later on in life you will realise why everything happened the way it did.

Something he does tells us that we should never forget along the way is to “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” To be honest, at first I didn’t understand this saying. But, then I got it. It means to never give up and to work with what you love. I was inspired by his words and they made me realise that I have to apreciate every moment. Anyways, he tells us that he really works at what he loves and I hope that everyday I can look in the mirror and say the same for myself.