How to live before you die

In a slight deviation from my recent grief blogging I’d like to share this amazing Steve Jobs talk with you. Seems rather relevant.

http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die

And some key things to take away;

1. On the concept of connecting the dots
   1. Follow your heart
   2. You can’t connect dots in advance
2. On Love and loss
1. Took Jobs 10 years to create Apple from garage to billions of $
2. Fired – but didn’t run away from industry, vision, dreams
3. Didn’t realize them but getting fired was best thing that ever happened
4. Don’t settle
3. On Death and thus Life
1. If you live each day as if it’s your last someday almost certainly you will be right
2. Pride, fear of embarrassment or failure… avoid the trap of feeling there is anything to lose
3. Death is life’s change agent, makes way for the new
4. You are the new now but will one day be cleared away
5. Don’t waste time living someone else’s life
6. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking
7. Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice
8. Courage to follow your own heart and intuition . They somehow already know what you want to become. Everything else is secondary.

And as Steve adopted from the “Whole  Earth Catalog” (was printed on back)

Stay hungry, stay foolish.