Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
I spent some time as a public speaker; traveling America and speaking almost every day to a group of very high income, educated, professional people; all of whom had far more formal education than I. Most were Doctors, Specialists at that.
My job was to teach these people who were more educated than I. I had to teach them what their several degrees had left them wanting; that is how to do what they wanted to do — to like it and to do it well. I was to teach them that it is in all ways better to give than take. I was to show them that it is always — in all ways — better to be interested in others than to try and create interest in yourself. These things I believed then and I believe now.
I enjoyed capturing and holding the attention of hundreds of people, all of whom thought they were smarter than me when I started and all of whom claimed they learned greatly when I was done. I spoke for two days and took up twenty hours of their time. I spoke upon what had taken me decades to learn. I delivered verbally what decades of intense and dedicated experience and education had given me; I condensed into those twenty hours.
I am immensely impressed with good speaking that has value. In my opinion there is great value in this speech by Steve Jobs.
I hope you find value here as well and that if you do; that you may want to invite folks to come here, to my Blog and check it out.
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