The document summarizes Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. It discusses: 1. Jobs' biography and accomplishments as the co-founder of Apple Inc. 2. The structure and themes of Jobs' speech, which includes autobiographical stories about dropping out of college, following his passions, and being diagnosed with cancer. 3. The key messages of the speech which encouraged students to follow their curiosity, trust that things will work out if they follow their passions, and not waste time living someone else's life.

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How to Live Before
You Die – an essay by Steve Jobs
Presentation by :
Birendra Prasad Shrestha
M.A. English (T.U.), M. Phil English (P.U.)

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About The Author
• Steven Jobs
• born February 24, 1955, San
Francisco, California, U.S.—
died October 5, 2011, Palo
Alto, California
• An American business
magnate, industrial designer,
investor, and media
proprietor
• Co-founder and CEO of
Apple Inc.
• A pioneer of microcomputer
technology
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3. Apple ISteven Jobs (right) and Stephen Wozniak holding an Apple I
circuit board, c. 1976.
Courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc
Inventions of Steve Jobs
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4. Products of Apple Inc.
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5. How to Live Before
You Die
• An inspiring speech by Jobs
delivered at Stanford
University 2005
Commencement Speech
• Tripartite structure
• Uses autobiographical
anecdotes
• Communicates message of
resilience & Personal integrity
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6. How to … contd.
• Begins the speech by telling
that Jobs never graduated
from college
• Then tells 3 stories
1. The first story is about
Connecting the Dots
2. The second story is about
Love and Loss
3. The third story is about
Death
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7. How to … contd.
1. The first story is about Connecting the Dots
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Baby Jobs
• Tells the story of - Drop out – Reeds
College
• Story of his Birth, Adoption, College,
value of college education to him at
that time
• No idea – what he wanted to do in life
• No idea – how clg was going to help to
figure it out
• Drop out – a scary idea

8. 1. The first story … contd.
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Young Jobs
• Leaving the college
• Allowed him take lessons that interested him
• It was difficult
• Struggle – no dorm, sleeping on the floor of
friends’ rooms, walking 7 miles (12 km approx.)
for a good meal every week
• Result of following his curiosity
• Useful in later life
• Calligraphy – typography
• Connecting dots looking - backward makes sense,
looking forward difficult to connect dots

9. Advice to Students at
convocation:
• Trust that dots will
somehow connect in
your future
• Trust in something –
your gut, destiny, life,
karma, whatever
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1. The first story … contd.

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• Love
• Found what he loved to do early in life
• Starting Apple with a friend in Jobs’ parents’
garage at 20
• In 10 yrs, $2 billion company with 4,000 staff
• Loss
• At 30 he was out of Apple
• Focus of entire adult life was gone
• Devastating
• Public failure – thought of running away from
the valley
• Loved what he did
2. The second story is about Love and Loss

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• Firing from Apple – the best thing
• Heaviness of being successful Vs. lightness of a
beginner
• In the next FIVE years:
• Started companies – NeXT, Pixar
• Fell in love with a woman
• Pixar – creating first computer animated
feature film Toy Story
• Apple bought NeXT, return to Apple, Apple’s
renaissance
• Laurene and Jobs wonderful family
2. The second story … contd.
Laurene Powell Jobs

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Advice to Students at convocation:
• Don’t lose faith in life
• Do what you love to do in life
• Find out what you love to do
• The only way to be truly satisfied
is doing what you believe is great
work
2. The second story … contd.

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• A quote, “If you live each day as if it was
your last, someday you’ll most certainly be
right.”
• Looking at the mirror every morning and
asking :-
… would I want to do what I am about to
do today?
• Best way to avoid the trap of thinking you
have something to lose – is – remembering
that you are going to die
• Follow your heart
3. The third story is about Death
Most important tool
:– Remembering that
I’ll be dead soon

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• Jobs’ illness
• Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
• Doctor’s advise – only some days to live
• Found curable
• Learning from illness experience:
• No one wants to die – and yet death is the destination
we all share
• Death is very likely the single best invention of life
• Death clears out the old to make way for the new
• The Whole Earth Catalog
• A sort of paperback google (30 yrs
before google)
• Message:- Stay Hungry, Stay Fool
3. The third story … contd.

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• Jobs’ Advice to the students at the
commencement:
• A person’s life is limited
• Don’t waste time in living someone
else’s life
• Have the courage to follow your heart
and intuition
• Try for becoming what you want to
become
• Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
3. The third story … contd.

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