스티브잡스 졸업 연설 Steve Jobs ; 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech (2)

If I had never dropped out,
I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class,
and personal computers might not have
the wonderful typography that they do.
Of course
it was impossible to connect the dots, looking forward
when I was in college.
But it was very,
very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward.
You can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust
that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something
- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
Because believing that the dots will connect down the road
will give you the confidence to follow your heart,
even when it leads you off the well-worn path.
And that will make all the difference.
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My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky.
I found what I loved to do early in life.
Woz' and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20.
We worked hard and in 10 years
Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage
into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
We'd just released our finest creation,
the Macintosh, a year earlier
and I just turned 30.
And then I got fired.
How can you get fired from a company you started?
Well,
as Apple grew, we hired someone
who I thought was very talented
to run the company with me,
and for the first year or so things went well.
But then our visions of the future began to diverge
and eventually we had a falling-out.
When we did,
our Board of Directors sided with him.
And so at 30, I was out
and very publicly out.
What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone,
and it was devastating
I really didn't know what to do for a few months.
I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down
that I had dropped the baton
as it was being passed to me.
I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce
and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.
I was a very public failure
and I even thought about running away from the Valley.
But something slowly began to dawn on me.
I still loved what I did.
The turn of events at Apple
had not changed that one bit.
I had been rejected, but I was still in love.
And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then,
but it turned out that getting fired from Apple
was the best thing that could've ever happened to me.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by
the lightness of being a beginner again,
less sure about everything.
It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years,
I started a company named NeXT,
another company named Pixar,
and fell in love with an amazing woman
who would become my wife.
Pixar went on to create
the world's first computer animated feature film,
Toy Story,
and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
In a remarkable turn of events,
Apple bought NeXT
I retuned to Apple,
and the technology we developed at NeXT
is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened
if I hadn't been fired from Apple.
It was awful tasting medicine,
but I guess the patient needed it.
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick.
Don't lose faith.
I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going
was that I loved what I did.
You've got to find what you love.
And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
and the only way to be truly satisfied
is to do what you believe is great work.
And the only way to do great work
is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
Don't settle.
As with all matters of the heart,
you'll know when you find it.
And like any great relationship,
it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.