Around the world, people have been filling cyberspace with tributes to a truly great visionary and a man who has transformed the world. Yesterday Steve Jobs – the co-founder of Apple – passed away, aged 56, having battled with pancreatic cancer.
I’m really at a loss as to what to say, so instead today I’d like to leave you with a wonderfully inspirational video from the great man himself:
Stanford Commencement Speech, 12th June 2005
Steve Jobs: Death is most likely the single best invention of Life.
“No one wants to die.
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.
No-one has ever escaped it.
And that is as it should be, because Death is most likely the single best invention of Life.
It’s Life’s change agent.
It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Right now, the new is You… but someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
Sorry to be so dramatic but it’s quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown 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.
Everything else is secondary.”
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