Steve Jobs honestly shared that he did not graduate from college in his speech. His parents had intended to put him up for adoption after his birth but changed their minds when they realized neither of them had graduated high school. Jobs dropped out of college after 17 years to pursue his passion, which led him to take a calligraphy class that later inspired design aspects of the original Macintosh. Although he was fired from Apple, he went on to found NeXT, which Apple later acquired, returning Jobs to the company. He reflected on how his unconventional path and cancer diagnosis reminded him to make the most of his limited time.
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1. Steve Jobs Speech Summary
In this speech, Steve Jobs honestly told us that he did not graduated college.
This all started when his parents whom was expecting to have a girl after his
birth, has put him up for adoption. But after knowing both of them never
graduated college and high school, his mother decided not to sign the final
adoption papers. They then promised that Steve would go to college. After 17
years in college, he decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out
okay. Steve was being concrete with his decision. He then took up calligraphy
classes and thought, why not design it into the Macintosh. He then indexed that
personal computers might not have wonderful typographies if he didn’t drop in
to the calligraphy course. Steve and Woz started Apple when he was 20 and
after 10 years, they finally released the Macintosh, but he was then fired. He
still love what he did and decided to move on. He started a company called
NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT, and Steve returned to Apple. He also indexed
that none of this would’ve happened if he hadn’t been fired from Apple. About
a year ago, Steve was diagnosed with cancer but it turn out that the cancer was
curable with surgery. He then gave a frozen evaluation about living life to the
fullest and time is limited.
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