Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish!
Keep Looking! Don't Settle!
Keep Looking! Don't Settle!
Ostajaj lačen (novih poti, znanja) ≡ [Ne odnehaj z doseženim; uči se; ..]
Ostajaj mimo ustaljenih, znanih poti ≡ [spoznavaj; raziskuj; ..]
Največkrat je posredovan govor diplomantom na Stanfordu leta 2005:
S Slovenskimi podnapisi:
- Prvi del: --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQc5KAgGug
- Drugi del: --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hMu2fZABaQ
Povzemam zanimive dele zapisov
This was, in essence the advice he had for the “freshers” who had joined the prestigious Ivy League University in California, USA in that year. The advice might as well have been extended to not just every scholar in the world but to everybody else who value creativity. Learning is a process and not any finite event. But much more than the mere statement of a well acknowledged truism, it is a clarion call to all to never settle at any destination in life, but to continue to strive to be better. The only way to ensure the energy for this outlook to life remains undiminished, is to always thirst for more knowledge in the belief that what is already known is nothing compared to what can still be learned. There can be nobody more fit to have preached this than the Steve Job, whose creative energy continued to remain at its peak even as entered the late 50s of life, having designed extremely successful “cool” products that did not end with just personal computers and laptops, but also went ahead to redefine the way the world listened to music, watched movies, kept in touch, or visited the virtual world of the internet. Quite without doubt one of the richest man in the world today, there probably would not be many anywhere whose lifestyles have not been influenced in some way or the other by the numerous creations of somebody who may go down in history as one of the most creative men ever.
Arguably in this sense he would have touched more lives than even his old time arch rival and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, although on the philanthropic mission and not just creativity, the latter would be undoubtedly far beyond him, too far perhaps for him to ever catch up.
This is not an attempt to assess and compare the achievements of the two. There is in fact little left to be written about them and their achievements anymore. The point is merely to underscore the message so well articulated by Job that creativity is about remaining creative forever, and this precisely through a willingness to remain hungry and have the humility to acknowledge there can never be anything as enough when it comes to learning.
This spirit of adventure, defined by a burning desire to discover, invent, venture and take risk has been the hallmark of all successful and creative societies. Consequently, all societies which have ceased to be adventurous would with a measure of certainty, stagnate and ultimately fade into insignificance.
The important and more urgent question is, where would our own society fare against such a barometer of creative energy?
Are we still hungry for achievement?
Can we still claim to be creative?
It’s probably is a mixed bag. On the one hand there is a constant escalation of what is probably the biggest agent for the destruction of creativity – official corruption.
Merit, enterprise, endurance and all such priceless qualities that add to the creative energy of a society are being systematically decimated. By choice and increasingly by compulsion, more and more are being drawn into the vortex of this depthless Black Hole of corruption.
Sadly, the accepted social goal of respectability today has also come to be simply “wealth” without any qualification as to how it had been acquired. The easiest way to acquire wealth in the present social circumstance being corruption, the issue has undergone a terrible mutation so that it has literally come to mean the most corrupt and thereby the most filthily rich, are also the most respected citizens of today.
If this is one side of the story, there is another where the picture is not so depressing. In fields of activities autonomous of the government job market, the hunger for achievement is still undiminished.
The evidence in the manner the state’s theatre, cinema, other performing arts, doctors, scientists, sportspersons etc, consistently earn the respect of the rest of the country and the world?
Life -
"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." (Stanford Commencement, 2005)On innovation and those that push it -
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do"
October 5, 2011
Steve Jobs’s Patents
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