I have watched many ted speeches along with other various speeches on the internet. Many of them were inspiring however, there is one that really stuck out to me. Steve Jobbs speech at stanford university really had a huge impact on me.
For me, it is very hard to truly believe what someone is speaking about. The first thing I always do, is look up the persons credits and what they have accomplished. With that said, I was immediately engaged in Jobbs speech because I know what a truly remarkable man he is. His speech gave me insight on a lot about life that I never really realized. It doesn't matter what you want to do with your life, Steve Jobb's advice in the speech is applicable with anything in life. Rather than rambling on about "the keys to being successful" and all these myths, he takes the approach of telling three personal stories about his life to help send us a message on how to be successful.
He talks about his close encounters with death and overcoming cancer, he also talks about being fired from his own company, which at the time was a huge blow to him, but later on being the best thing that has ever happened to him. Also he talks about "connecting the dots" and following your dreams. This speech was very inspring and now even more so because he has passed away.
Steve jobbs was a true innovator. He knew what the people wanted and went above and beyond to give apple products the most potential with the technology available.
It was very easy for me to appreciate and listen to what Steve had to say because he is so successful and brought a once bankrupt company to becoming the number one company in the world. I also appreciated how it wasn't easy for him to that and when the world came crashing down on him whether it was being diagnosed with cancer, or being fired from apple, Steve did not give up. It makes you think were apple would be if he had given up. I truly believe apple would have went under, and I also believe if it did not go under we still would not have the products we love today with out Steve Jobbs.
