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I got this from our office Bulletin Board and boy was i happy!.

The aspects that stood out and really made me relate are below:

Steve is a College drop out.
Oru drop out manasu innoru drop out ukku dhaan theriyum:)

Seriously, Not many drop outs turn out to be Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison though. But each individual, regardless of his qualification has got a unique gift and it’s up to that individual to find it, hone it and use that as the path to greatness. Education for the sake of education is.. well.. nothing great about it.

His first story - Connecting the dots.

It was terrific to know how his skills in calligraphy came to the fore when he was designing Mac. A good 10 years after he learnt it in Reed College.
It’s beautful when he says about connecting the dots looking backwards and the need to trust something in life - Gut, destiny, God, karma whatever. Absolutely true.

His second story - Love and loss.

He talks about being fired from the same company which he co-founded. Steve’s love for he was doing without any regard to how the public viewed him made him hang on and start another company NeXT Software and later Pixar.

His third story - Death.

A deeply moving anecdote. Actually I am convinced nowadays that one essentially needs to have a death-bed view of life. A lot of what we do and what we crib about will essentially mean nothing if we recognize that death may actually be around the corner.

I’ve seen far too many deaths or death-like sequences. My dad’s death was one such instance. He was fully alive and kicking in the morning, went out on his scooter. We brought his body at lunch time. Fatal heart attack.

In the same lines, I will never forget how one youth, someone in early twenties was lying dead near Ashram school around 8:45 in the morning. He had boarded D70 from Vijay Nagar terminus. He had been in foot board all along and then suddenly lost his grip and balance. Finished.

Another scene which terribly moved me was the recent Tsunami catastrophe.

But my favorite quote of his speech would be this..

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick”

It did Steve. How did you know about that?

But it’s entirely up to me to come up in life like you or go down the drain as among of the 6 billion as someone who had all the talent but one who nevertheless wasted it.

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