00:00:04if I had never dropped out I would have
00:00:07never dropped in on that calligraphy
00:00:09class and personal computers might not
00:00:11have the wonderful typography that they
00:00:13do of course it was impossible to
00:00:15connect the dots looking forward when I
00:00:17was in college but it was very very
00:00:19clear looking backwards ten years later
00:00:22again you can’t connect the dots looking
00:00:25forward you can only connect them
00:00:26looking backwards so you have to trust
00:00:34that the dots will somehow connect in
00:00:36your future you have to trust in
00:00:38something your gut destiny life karma
00:00:40whatever because believing that the dots
00:00:43will connect down the road will give you
00:00:46the confidence to follow your heart even
00:00:48when it leads you off the well-worn path
00:00:50and that will make all the difference
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00:01:02my second story is about love and loss I
00:01:07was lucky I found what I loved to do
00:01:10early in life when I was 20 the
00:01:14heaviness of being successful was
00:01:16replaced by the lightness of being a
00:01:18beginner again less sure about
00:01:20everything I’m convinced that the only
00:01:22thing that kept me going was that I
00:01:24loved what I did you’ve got to find what
00:01:27you love and that is as true for work as
00:01:29it is for your lovers your work is going
00:01:32to fill a large part of your life and
00:01:34the only way to be truly satisfied is to
00:01:36do what you believe is great work and
00:01:38the only way to do great work is to love
00:01:40what you do if you haven’t found it yet
00:01:43keep looking and don’t settle as with
00:01:47all matters of the heart you’ll know
00:01:49when you find it and like any great
00:01:51relationship it just gets better and
00:01:53better as the years roll on so keep
00:01:56looking don’t settle
00:02:02my third story is about death when I was
00:02:0717 I read a quote that went something
00:02:09like if you live each day as if it was
00:02:12your last someday you’ll most certainly
00:02:14be right it made an impression on me and
00:02:17since then for the past 33 years I’ve
00:02:21looked in the mirror every morning and
00:02:22asked myself if today were the last day
00:02:25of my life
00:02:26what I want to do what I am about to do
00:02:28today and whenever the answer has been
00:02:30no for too many days in a row I know I
00:02:33need to change them remembering that
00:02:36I’ll be dead soon is the most important
00:02:39tool I’ve ever encountered to help me
00:02:40make the big choices in life because
00:02:43almost everything all external
00:02:45expectations all pride all fear of
00:02:48embarrassment of failure
00:02:50these things just fall away in the face
00:02:52of death leaving only what is truly
00:02:54important remembering that you are going
00:02:57to die is the best way I know to avoid
00:03:00the trap of thinking you have something
00:03:02to lose you are already naked there is
00:03:05no reason not to follow your heart
00:03:08no one wants to die even people who want
00:03:12to go to heaven don’t want to die to get
00:03:14there and yet death is the destination
00:03:18we all share no one has ever escaped it
00:03:21and that is as it should be because
00:03:23death is very likely the single best
00:03:26invention of life its life’s change
00:03:29agent it clears out the old to make way
00:03:31for the new right now the new is you but
00:03:36some day not too long from now you will
00:03:38purely become the old and be cleared
00:03:40away sorry to be so dramatic
00:03:43but it’s quite true your time is limited
00:03:46so don’t waste it living someone else’s
00:03:49life don’t be trapped by Dogma which is
00:03:53living with the results of other
00:03:54people’s thinking don’t let the noise of
00:03:57others opinions drown out your own inner
00:03:59voice and most important have the
00:04:02courage to follow your heart and
00:04:03intuition they somehow already know
00:04:06what you truly want to become everything
00:04:09else is secondary
00:04:11were the words stay hungry stay foolish
00:04:15it was their farewell message as they
00:04:18signed off stay hungry stay foolish and
00:04:22I have always wished that for myself and
00:04:25now as you graduate to begin anew I wish
00:04:30that for you stay hungry stay foolish
00:04:33thank you all very much
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