Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. “ … don’t waste it living someone else’s life.It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. “ It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.“ all external expectations, all pride, all fear” (9:33).started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love…” (7:16) Jobs follows this up with three sentences which demonstrate how each of those turned out great. “ It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle…” (3:47).“ I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.” (3:39).Jobs structures his speech around three main points, and he applies the Rule of Three in many sentences and paragraphs. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.” (11:40) The timing is better here. A minute and a half later, he does a better job of injecting humour in the midst of a serious point: “ No one wants to die.This is a particularly tense moment in the speech, and the audience would benefit from stress-relieving laughter.
For example, he concludes his first story with an apparent reference to Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken: “ even when it leads you off the well-worn path… and that will make all the difference.” This is followed by a full six seconds of silence.Jobs executes effective pauses before and particularly after key points to allow the audience time to digest his points. “ My second story is about love and loss.“.“ The first story is about connecting the dots.“.“ Today I want to tell you three stories.“.He guides the audience through the 14.5 minutes with simple sentences. Jobs adopts a simple and traditional structure. His audience is composed of college graduates for whom graduation often means diverging paths from their close friends. Jobs chooses a conversational style, and this is a wise choice. The latter is conversational, and invokes an image of two close friends.The former is formal, and invokes an image of two entrepreneurs who founded Apple.Conversational StyleĬontrast “ Steven Wozniak and I started Apple” with “ Woz and I started Apple.” In just a few sentences, he has made the audience feel very good about themselves, and increased their receptiveness to his message. Jobs opens with a compliment for the audience: “ I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.” He follows that by showing humility in admitting that he never graduated college. Strong opening: Praise the audience and show some humility What did you like? What could have been done better?
Share your thoughts on this presentation.If you like, read the full speech text to gain further insights.a recurring theme of birth/death/rebirth.Noteworthy elements of this wonderful speech include: The style and content are very different from his Apple product launch presentations, but no less worthy of study. Stay Foolish.” to the graduates of Stanford University on June 12, 2005. Steve Jobs wrote and delivered the commencement speech “Stay Hungry.