Lessons that Youths and students should learn from Steve Jobs' life.

Steve Jobs- A name that does not need an introduction, a man who brought a revolution in the world of computers, and a human who went beyond human limits. Steve Paul Jobs was an American business magnate who co-founded Apple Inc. He was also the Primary investor and Chairman of Pixar and the founder of NeXT. Steve Jobs lived all his life doing what he loved. He is a great inspiration for all budding entrepreneurs and young dreamers. Younger generations will always embrace his advice and his idea of life. And here are a few advice and lessons that every youngster and student should learn from Steve Jobs' life.

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish


Follow Your Passion And Do What You Love- because there is no reason not to follow your heart.

What is the best thing in the world? A human being following his/her passion. Every individual who has reached the pinnacle of success in this world has followed their passion and did what they loved. It all sounds romantic. But it isn't. Only courageous and phenomenal people like Steve Jobs dare to follow their hearts and create history. 

And here the words that Steve Jobs said about passion in a public appearance alongside bill gates " People say you need to have a lot of passion for what you're doing and it's true because, Without passion, any rational person would give up. If you look up at once who ended up being successful in the eyes of society and who didn't, oftentimes, it's because the ones who are successful loved what they did so they could persevere when it got tough and the ones that didn't love it they quit."


Believe In The Process

During his Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs shares a story about connecting the dots. Jobs explained how dropping out of college was one of the best decisions of his life. He said "If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later."

He further advised students that "you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

Just like Steve Jobs we all have to believe in the process of life and trust that dots will surely connect in the future. We all are fighting a small or big battle in our lives. And when challenges and problems come in our ways we get disheartened and just wanted to quit. But we have to believe in the fact that everything in the world happens for a reason and past events of our life will somehow surely connect to future happenings. 


It's awful tasting medicine but the patient needs it.

"It's awful tasting medicine, but the patient needs it," this deep message was delivered by steve jobs while he shared another story from his life during his Stanford commencement address. He said "getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." 

And this story of Steve Jobs' life has a profound message for the younger generation. When we face rejections in our lives we believe that it's an end, but no, it's a chance to begin again. Failures just test us if we deserve to be successful or not. Hence we should embrace your failures and rejections with pride and prepare yourselves for fresh starts. And that's the theory of life.

When Steve jobs get publicly fired from Apple, during the next five years, he started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar. And Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-animated feature film Toy Story. None of this would have ever happened if steve jobs hadn’t been fired from Apple. The moral is, our big rejections prepare us for better opportunities, and our worst failures set our way towards bigger successes.


Your Time Is Limited - so don't waste it living someone else's life.

On Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs said goodbye to the world at the age of 56. But he lived all his life pursuing his heart, his passion, and his dreams. 

Here are words that Steve Jobs said about death and dream " Remembering that I’ll be dead soon 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 these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die 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."

Every morning we wake up thinking that we have all the time in the world to do our things. But it is the myth. The myth that breaks every moment when lakhs of people lose their lives within seconds. Death is a destination that everyone has to reach one or the other day. So we have to accept the fact that we all have limited time to follow our passions, to fulfill our dreams, to achieve our goals, and to challenge our destiny. 

"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."

- Hugh Hefner


Stay Hungry Stay Foolish 

People who did great discoveries, who build big companies, and who designed phenomenal products, what's common in them? Their hunger to create great things. And Steve Jobs' hunger did amplify human ability by creating phenomenal products like iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod. And he had given the same advice to the youth "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish".

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

-Steve Jobs

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