An excerpt from a commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers -
At an early age of 17, Steve naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of his working-class parents’ savings were being spent on his college tuition. After six months, when he couldn’t see the value in it, he decided to drop out. The minute he dropped out, he stopped taking the required classes that he didn’t enjoy, and began dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. Some of these classes didn’t even have a hope of any practical application in his life. He was just following his curiosity and intuition. But ten years later, he was designing the first MAC computer and the rest is history.
In his words - “You have got to find out what you love. And this is as true for your work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to 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.”
You love what you do only when you enjoy doing it. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
At an early age of 17, Steve naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of his working-class parents’ savings were being spent on his college tuition. After six months, when he couldn’t see the value in it, he decided to drop out. The minute he dropped out, he stopped taking the required classes that he didn’t enjoy, and began dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. Some of these classes didn’t even have a hope of any practical application in his life. He was just following his curiosity and intuition. But ten years later, he was designing the first MAC computer and the rest is history.
In his words - “You have got to find out what you love. And this is as true for your work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to 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.”
You love what you do only when you enjoy doing it. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
I so believe in this and have realized this more so after doing my PG course ... I feel like giving so much for the things that interest me, for that I always have time and its done beforehand unlike other thins which get completed at the last moment.
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