Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address（Assignment 6）

Steve Jobs is one of Apple’s founders.
I think the reason why he is so popular and amazing is not only because he is a promoter of Apple, but also his thoughts and passion to life.

Jobs divided his speech into three parts: his born, love, lose, and death.

Jobs was adopted by Mr. and Ms. Jobs.
When Jobs was small, his father took him to experience lots of things.
Young Jobs had lots of curiosity with everything and dared to find out things he wanted to know.
When he was in school, he was not a student who would quiet sitting on his chair.
He dropped out classes he thought that were bored and dropped in classes that he was interested in.
In teachers’ eyes, he was not a good student, but I think to America’s spirit, he was a good learner.

Second part of the speech, Jobs talks about love and lose, and I think this is the most important part of his speech.
Because of his love and passion, he founded Apple, a great kingdom of computer.
However, due to some reasons, he was fired. That means he lost Apple Company.
At the time, he didn’t know what to do.
Thanks he didn’t lost his energy, passion and love to those things; he kept working hard and learning hard.
Then, he found out his true love, his wife, and he went back to Apple to work.
The main point Jobs wants to tell us is whenever bad things happen, do not lose the passion and love to what you really want to work for.

Finally, he mentions about death.
Jobs says he was once got cancer.
At that time, he thought lots of things including his last words to his wife and children.
However, his tumor became a curable one.
This terrible experience really made him think a lot.
We always ask people: if you have one day to live, what do you want to do?
If you have no idea what you want to do, that is more terrible then cancer! (I think.)
Because that means you are a person who has no dream and no passion.
Human being’s value is that we can think, we can have dream and we can use our hands to realize it.

So, at the end of the speech, Jobs reminds everyone: stay hungry, stay foolish.
That means always be hungry to find the answer of what you don’t know.
Be foolish to what you think you had ready know, because knowledge is wider than what you saw.