Name: Learn Real English | Steve Jobs' Famous Speech
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T18:10:31.000Z
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My name's Ethan, your relighting with fluency.

Coach and I have a different and very special lesson for you today with one of the most famous speeches of all times.

It has over 40 million views here on YouTube, and that is from Steve Jobs.

Well, many of you probably already know him as the founder of Apple Computers, the person who brought us the iPhone, the iPad and so many other innovations that we use in our day to day life.

This is a video that is very often quoted in all sorts of native media, and we just took a short part of it, too.

But I will link to the full cliff down in the description below highly recommend you go check that out after first major inspiration and great English practice.

Remember, if you're new here to hit the subscribe button so you can get the newest lessons like this one teaching your fun, real life, English every single week without any further ado, let's watch this fun lesson with Steve Jobs.

I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.

Truth be told, uh, I never graduated from college, and, uh, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the 1st 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.

My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.

She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates.

So everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking.

My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.

She refused to sign the final adoption papers.

She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

This was the start in my life, and 17 years later I did go to college.

But I naively chose a college that was almost a CZ expensive.

As Stanford and all of my working class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition.

After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.

I have no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

And here I was spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life.

So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out.

It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor and friends rooms.

I returned Coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hari Krishna Temple.

I loved it, and much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward.

You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

You have to trust in something your gut destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing that the dots will connect down the road, we'll give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

And that will make all the difference sometime.

Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick.

I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

You've got to find what you love and that is his true for work as it is for your lovers.

Your work is gonna 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 and don't settle.

As 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.

When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like, If you live each day as if it was your last someday you'll most certainly be right.

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today.

And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row.

Remembering that all be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure.

These things just fall away in the face of death.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking.

There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

And yet death is the destination we all share.

Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Don't let the noise of other's opinions drowned out your own inner voice and most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the Bible's of my generation.

And then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.

It was the mid 19 seventies, and I was your age.

On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.

It was their farewell message as they signed off.

And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you Stay hungry.

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