I'm Glad I Dropped Out of College by Steve Jobs

Monday, August 29, 2011 - 14:09
Life and Death
lewrockwell.com

...text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. ... three stories from my life... 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. ... getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again ... Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.... [h/t Cuz BD]

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