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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.47,0:00:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This program is brought to you by Stanford University.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.47,0:00:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please visit us at stanford.edu
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.49,0:00:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.02,0:00:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from one of the finest universities in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.56,0:00:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Truth be told I never graduated from college
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.56,0:00:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.98,0:00:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.01,0:00:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No big deal. Just three stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.85,0:00:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first story is about connecting the dots.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.01,0:01:03.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.98,0:01:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then stayed around as a drop-in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.80,0:01:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.41,0:01:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why did I drop out?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.23,0:01:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It started before I was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.25,0:01:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.24,0:01:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she decided to put me up for adoption.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.36,0:01:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.31,0:01:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so everything was all set for me to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.61,0:01:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.74,0:01:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except that when I popped out they decided
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.15,0:01:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.92,0:01:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my parents, who were on a waiting list,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.16,0:01:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.47,0:01:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,baby boy; do you want him?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.43,0:01:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.30,0:01:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mother had never graduated from college
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.31,0:01:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that my father had never graduated from high school.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.16,0:02:02.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She refused to sign the final adoption papers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.43,0:02:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She only relented a few months later when
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.39,0:02:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.54,0:02:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.34,0:02:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was almost as expensive as Stanford,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.47,0:02:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of my working-class parents'
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.31,0:02:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,savings were being spent on my college tuition.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.61,0:02:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.72,0:02:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.76,0:02:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.85,0:02:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.29,0:02:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their entire life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.60,0:02:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.94,0:02:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was pretty scary at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.40,0:02:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.08,0:02:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The minute I dropped out I could stop
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.69,0:02:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking the required classes that didn't interest me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.74,0:03:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.76,0:03:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.17,0:03:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.59,0:03:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.72,0:03:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.28,0:03:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.15,0:03:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,temple. I loved it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.85,0:03:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And much of what I stumbled into by following
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.26,0:03:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.69,0:03:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me give you one example: Reed College at that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.50,0:03:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.35,0:03:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.75,0:03:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was beautifully hand calligraphed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.39,0:03:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.73,0:03:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.10,0:03:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned about serif and san serif typefaces,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.30,0:03:57.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about varying the amount of space
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.95,0:03:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between different letter combinations,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.85,0:04:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what makes great typography great.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.44,0:04:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was beautiful, historical,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.80,0:04:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.75,0:04:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I found it fascinating.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.21,0:04:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.57,0:04:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But ten years later,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.87,0:04:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we were designing the first Macintosh computer,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.88,0:04:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.47,0:04:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.49,0:04:32.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.96,0:04:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Mac would have never had multiple
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.59,0:04:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.40,0:04:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since Windows just copied the Mac,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.70,0:04:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's likely that no personal computer would have them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.07,0:04:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I had never dropped out,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.14,0:04:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.11,0:04:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.15,0:05:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.52,0:05:02.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dots looking forward when I was in college.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.45,0:05:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.13,0:05:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.15,0:05:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can only connect them looking backwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.92,0:05:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.55,0:05:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your future.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.73,0:05:20.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.73,0:05:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.35,0:05:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beleiveing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.10,0:05:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.60,0:05:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My second story is about love and loss.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.03,0:05:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.31,0:05:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.87,0:05:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.26,0:05:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.66,0:06:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.35,0:06:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.36,0:06:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I got fired.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.05,0:06:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can you get fired from a company you started?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.40,0:06:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.90,0:06:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was very talented to run the company with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.68,0:06:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the first year or so things went well.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.47,0:06:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then our visions of the future began
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.68,0:06:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.77,0:06:28.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.15,0:06:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.73,0:06:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.89,0:06:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was devastating.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.53,0:06:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really didn't know what to do for a few months.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.11,0:06:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.87,0:06:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.21,0:06:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.88,0:06:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.42,0:06:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a very public failure,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.84,0:06:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I even thought about running away from the valley.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.57,0:07:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.59,0:07:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.80,0:07:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been rejected, but I was still in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.09,0:07:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I decided to start over.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.91,0:07:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.91,0:07:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.01,0:07:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heaviness of being successful was
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.19,0:07:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.22,0:07:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less sure about everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.16,0:07:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.42,0:07:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.53,0:07:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another company named Pixar,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.89,0:07:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.78,0:07:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.61,0:07:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,film, Toy Story,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.38,0:07:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.98,0:07:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.89,0:07:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.71,0:07:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.89,0:08:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.88,0:08:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm pretty sure none of this would
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.75,0:08:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.15,0:08:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.43,0:08:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.30,0:08:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.21,0:08:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I did. You've got to find what you love.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.54,0:08:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.17,0:08:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.10,0:08:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only way to be truly satisfied
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.45,0:08:34.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to do what you believe is great work.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.08,0:08:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.46,0:08:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.74,0:08:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.51,0:08:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, like any great relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.06,0:08:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.26,0:08:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So keep looking. Don't settle.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.30,0:09:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My third story is about death.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.27,0:09:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.53,0:09:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you live each day as if it was your last,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.91,0:09:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someday you'll most certainly be right."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.86,0:09:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.52,0:09:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have looked in the mirror every morning
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.14,0:09:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.02,0:09:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would I want to do what I am about to do today?"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.31,0:09:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.92,0:09:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know I need to change something.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.57,0:09:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.93,0:09:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.92,0:09:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.89,0:09:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all fear of embarrassment or failure -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.87,0:09:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these things just fall away in the face of death,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.18,0:10:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving only what is truly important.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.83,0:10:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remembering that you are going to die is the best
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.67,0:10:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.20,0:10:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.95,0:10:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.98,0:10:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.28,0:10:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.60,0:10:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't even know what a pancreas was.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.27,0:10:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The doctors told me this was almost
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.54,0:10:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly a type of cancer that is incurable,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.79,0:10:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.84,0:10:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.32,0:10:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is doctor's code for prepare to die.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.91,0:10:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.96,0:10:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.85,0:10:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means to make sure everything is buttoned
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.75,0:10:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.71,0:10:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means to say your goodbyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.46,0:11:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lived with that diagnosis all day.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.13,0:11:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later that evening I had a biopsy,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.59,0:11:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they stuck an endoscope down my throat,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.83,0:11:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through my stomach and into my intestines,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.26,0:11:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.48,0:11:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sedated, but my wife, who was there,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.55,0:11:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.74,0:11:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the doctors started crying because it turned out to be
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.50,0:11:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.00,0:11:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had the surgery and thankfully I'm fine now.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.80,0:11:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the closest I've been to facing death,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.56,0:11:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.86,0:11:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having lived through it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.62,0:11:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.25,0:11:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.42,0:11:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one wants to die.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.26,0:12:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.39,0:12:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet death is the destination we all share.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.19,0:12:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.37,0:12:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.02,0:12:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is Life's change agent.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.63,0:12:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.87,0:12:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.57,0:12:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.53,0:12:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.15,0:12:37.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.11,0:12:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be trapped by dogma which is living
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.41,0:12:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the results of other people's thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.77,0:12:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.19,0:12:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,voice. And most important,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.64,0:12:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.58,0:12:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.87,0:12:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything else is secondary.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.72,0:13:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was young,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.29,0:13:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.33,0:13:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was one of the bibles of my generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.26,0:13:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.77,0:13:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.84,0:13:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was in the late 1960's,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.59,0:13:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before personal computers and desktop publishing,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.44,0:13:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.68,0:13:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was sort of like Google in paperback form,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.94,0:13:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.57,0:13:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overflowing with neat tools, and great notions.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.49,0:13:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stewart and his team put out several
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.09,0:13:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,issues of The Whole Earth Catalog,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.48,0:13:52.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.40,0:13:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.72,0:14:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the back cover of their final issue
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.43,0:14:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a photograph of an early morning country road,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.32,0:14:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kind you might find yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.32,0:14:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.93,0:14:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.14,0:14:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.56,0:14:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.75,0:14:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.68,0:14:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.73,0:14:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you all very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.50,0:15:00.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The preceding program is copyrighted by Stanford University.
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