Creative Spark Talk Analysis Paper

Creative Spark Talk Analysis paper

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Creative Spark Talk Analysis paper

There were a lot of videos to choose from on the website but the Spark talk that interested me and that I connected with the most was the commencement speech that Steve Jobs gave to the 2005 Stanford graduation class. His message was for the class to not allow setbacks and obstacles prevent them from following the desires and passion. He stated that he only had 3 messages for them and started by explaining how he was abandoned as a baby and that his adoptive parents were going into debt sending him to college. Once he realized this financial burden he was enduring on his adoptive parents by selecting a very expensive college, he dropped out. In the garage he started Apple and the company grew incredibly large and fast. Due to a falling out and disagreement between him and the board of directors at Apple, he was fired. Unemployed and 30 years old resulted in this being an extremely humbling life lesson; to be publicly fired from the company he founded and built. Today he laughs about it and states that it was a good thing that his competitors stole his invention of the Mac, so now everyone can have a PC.

After hitting rock bottom he started back over again because he truly believes that you “Do what you believe is great work…don’t settle”. So he started Pixar and married his wife. Shortly thereafter he was asked to rejoin Apple again. Everything was good and appeared to be perfect again when he was diagnose with pancreatic cancer and was given no more than 6 months to live. As he was putting his affairs in order his wife took him into another Doctor’s office for them to do a biopsy of the cancer. Upon reviewing the cells the Doctor was overwhelmed that it was a rare curable type and he was treated. Cheating death is just another example on how he will not allow anything to stand in his way of achieving his goals and vision. Another moto that he can always remember and really likes that he used to see in a magazine was “Stay Hungry stay foolish”.

I can understand and relate to his experience of losing everything. I retired from the US Army after serving 22 years, it was the best