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How to Live Before You Die



Steve Jobs has always been of interest to me because of his influence to many people. His work from being the CEO of Apple has really impacted a lot of people. Almost everyone knows who Steve Jobs is and what he has accomplished; being the founder of the world’s largest information technology company by revenue, by total assets, and by phone manufacturing. By 2014, this large-scale company has been the first to be valued at $700 billion.

This TED talk that I found is called; “How to live before you die,” and it is a speech given by Steve Jobs. He doesn’t say anything too complicated. In fact, all he does is tell a story. Steve Jobs and his parents were not the wealthy family back in his school days. While unsure of a career, he attended a college in which he couldn’t afford, making him drop out. However, he could attend a class on typography for computers and this interested him. This lead Jobs on to the development of the first Macintosh pc. As Apple soared high for about a year, Steve Jobs was fired from his own company. After this happened, he regretted the mistakes he made but decided to start over because he still loved what he did with computers. On his own, he started NeXT which was a software company. Soon after that, he started Pixar which came to be the most successful animations studio in the world. Apple then bought his company NeXT which brought Steve Jobs back to Apple.

The reason that Steve Jobs gives this speech is to urge the audience to pursue their dreams. He claims that he wouldn’t have been as successful with software development if he was never fired by Apple. “It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.” The only thing that kept Jobs going was his love for what he did with computers.

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  1. AnonymousMay 9, 2017 at 6:02 PM

    Wow. He is very brilliant guy. I would give up and go to different path. Passion is the greatest power to continue of your dreams. Never give up. Good job DJ

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  2. AnonymousMay 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM

    Jobs's journey is very inspiring. It is a story of determination, loss, and then gain. He is an eloquent speaker and established ethos, and pathos specifically throughout his speech. It was a great speech and one that many people should hear.

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  3. AnonymousMay 11, 2017 at 5:16 AM

    This blog post is really cool. I like how he told his story to inspire people to chase their dreams. It is inspiring when people who are famous tell their stories, especially when some people come from the craziest backgrounds, where you'd never expect for them to "make it"

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