Addressing graduating students at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs talked a lot about death. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon," he said, "is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." . Remembering that you are going to die," Jobs said a little later in the same address, "is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." "To accept death is to live with a profound sense of freedom - freedom from things in life that really don't matter, such as fame and possessions beyond a few."
where 'truth' alone matters. These are the 'truths' that truly set one 'free'. And these 'truths' are truly beyond all religion! The passage of changes in birth, youth, mid age and old age represent unseen death(s), rebirth(s) and continuity of life just as progression of a vibratory sine wave. Forget your stock price and even your bottom line. Focus instead on what business is all about: build cool products and the world will come. Do your job and do it well; and the bottom line, the stock price and everything else will take care of itself.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
No Work All play
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